Street Report #4: Seatings

Seatings are not necessarily chairs, in the way they do not always have legs or a backrest, but if they do, they may be appropriating something that was once designed to be a chair. They need not even be sat on and could be used to hold items. This fourth study in the Street Report series looks at ways people invent chairs or even the act of sitting itself in the streets. Some of them reinforce common notions of a seat but many challenge or question it.

— from Temporary Press

I love Street Report and this is just one of their issues that I really enjoyed reading. It made me reflect on how the things we see every day can be interpreted in so many different ways — sometimes, we just need to take a closer look. In this book, it explores the seating we encounter on our own local streets. some designs reinforce our usual understanding of a seat, while others challenge or even redefine it, making us rethink the spaces we interact with. (fun fact: there's a photo of chairs being used to reserve a parking spot for our mini-MOLLY bus — I can't believe they actually came across it! Can you guess which one?)

— Aqilah, CCKPL