"Seating Furniture"
 

“Seating furniture” is chosen as the theme of the competition. Entrants are to create pieces from ordinary, daily experiences and examine how “seating” defines the connection between men, space and daily life. In other words, seating furniture items are no longer just items that bear our body weight, but a meeting point for artisan technics and life aesthetic. Entrants are encouraged to merge their craftsmen training with outside-the-box designs, and deliver works that are functional, aesthetically pleasing yet modernistically catchy, to break new grounds for wooden furniture development. 

Entrants are also urged to break free from the conventional, single-seat design, and branch out into stools, benches, chaise lounges, modular seats, public seating items, divans, chairs for children, even assistive seats for the elderly. Artisans can approach this from multiple perspectives: single users, multiple users, seats for home settings or public spaces to address a range of considerations: convenience, sustainable circularity, future lifestyle patterns, and unique wishes of users.