The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
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The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
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Re: The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
#2The worst chair in the world is the American high school/college desk+chair combo like this one
https://www.schooloutlet.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/Screen...
The people making and buying these place are committing crimes against humanity.
Re: The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
#3We would do better for ourselves to get rid of chairs entirely and sit on the floor. Getting down and up from the floor is a natural human movement that would keep us all fitter into old age.
Re: The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
#4We would do better for ourselves to get rid of chairs entirely and sit on the floor. Getting down and up from the floor is a natural human movement that would keep us all fitter into old age.
source?
Re: The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
#5The worst chair in the world is the American high school/college desk+chair combo like this one https://www.schooloutlet.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/Screen... The people making and buying these place are committing crimes against humanity.
They’re find for like 15-20 minutes, but after that, they’re unbearably uncomfortable. I remember starting to fidget quite a bit after about 20 minutes in those chairs/desks. It made sense, but it just wasn’t ergonomic.
Imagine sitting there for 50 minutes, having 10 minutes to get to the next lecture, and repeating that three times in a short span. It’s awful.
Re: The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
#6For people working at computers in offices, get a motorized desk that can raised or lowered to a pre-determined height at the push of a button. https://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/24/geekdesk-max-sit-stand-de...
Re: The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
#7The worst chair in the world is the American high school/college desk+chair combo like this one https://www.schooloutlet.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/Screen... The people making and buying these place are committing crimes against humanity.
They’re find for like 15-20 minutes, but after that, they’re unbearably uncomfortable. I remember starting to fidget quite a bit after about 20 minutes in those chairs/desks. It made sense, but it just wasn’t ergonomic. Imagine sitting there for 50 minutes, having 10 minutes to get to the next lecture, and repeating that three times in a short span. It’s awful.
Fortunately being spry and youthful offsets those disadvantages.
The only real crime of those chairs is enforcing right handedness on left handed students. This discomfort could be enough to create a slightly lower academic performance for left handed students on average compared to right handed.
Re: The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
#8We would do better for ourselves to get rid of chairs entirely and sit on the floor. Getting down and up from the floor is a natural human movement that would keep us all fitter into old age.
I'd also recommend Turkish getups with a kettlebell.
Re: The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
#9Perhaps we need to design for a furniture-less world, where we sit and stand as we did for most of our evolution.
Re: The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
#10We would do better for ourselves to get rid of chairs entirely and sit on the floor. Getting down and up from the floor is a natural human movement that would keep us all fitter into old age.
Have you tried sitting on the floor and work with a keyboard ? Do you have a setup you could share ?
I suppose Japanese should have something fitting but that might be a stereotype.