RAAAF is Breaking Habits   With A Vision of a Home without Chairs

Dutch studio Rietveld -Architecture Art- Affordances (RAAAF) has unveiled
its latest installation ‘Breaking Habits’ at the Mondrian Fund for Visual Arts
in Amsterdam.
Breaking Habits envisages a domestic environment without chairs and
couches, exploring a model of diagonal living through a system of flexible
carpets.
Medical research has shown that sitting for prolonged periods of time is
unhealthy. Breaking Habits therefore, aims to depart from our entrenched
model of the living room by eliminating chairs and couches. Set inside a
Dutch canal house, the exhibit hosts rolls of flexible carpet-like material
suspended by metal cables. The user is half-floating, with the ‘magic
carpet’ adapting and supporting the body. Different diagonals throughout
the room encourage a more active lifestyle by changing position over time .