chairs

Why so many chairs? Why does every architect design one? Why is that the fundamental object in design? (it is, isn't it?) Enough with the chairs, enough with the sitting. There's got to be something else out there to design that isn't so guilty in the affliction of butts and backs everywhere, so complicit in offices.

What're these people striving for with all these chairs? Hopefully posture. Posture's kind of the one and only thing-- make chairs that are impossible to sit in if you aren't ramrod erect. I wonder if that's even possible though. I'm thinking of everyone in school, of finding so many ways to puddle and slink and wilt in a chair, worming down the back of it, their heads poking up less and less at an increasingly sharp angle from the rest of their body, seeking the place of least resistance, the 180. IDEA: put sandpaper or some such horrendously frictional thing on the seat of chairs. The difficulty, the energy required to not slip your butt forward and your torso down is the great difficulty.