Stigmas

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Stigmas

Date: 2012-2013

Image from the Stigmas project. A mature couple sat at a table with a stationary listening device between them. The man is speaking through the device and the woman is listening with her ear against it.

Design is as much about searching for the question as seeking the answer.

Stigmas is a collection of furniture that embody issues relating to the physical, cognitive and attitudinal challenges older people face in everyday life. These critical artefacts do not present solutions but a series of considered questions that illuminate a landscape of old age.

Stigmas have been a feature of the engagingaging series of exhibitions.

The Stigma chairs won major prize in the 'imagining chairs' category of the 'Art on Chairs' international Design Competition (Parades Furniture Design Pole & Design Institute for Design, Media and Culture Research, Portugal). The chairs also features as an anchor point on the Art on Chairs exhibition, Parades, Portugal (2012) and Bilbao, Spain (2013), resulting in collaboration with furniture manufacturer Jose Fernando Loueiro Dos Santos Ltd to produce the chairs.

Stigmas were also exhibited at Insight2 :engaging the health humanities exhibition, University of Alberta, Canada (2013).

A wooden chair from the stigmas project with the words 'chair' and 'sit' printed on it.
A wooden lamp from the stigmas project. The lamp has 4 red trailing wires each plugged into a socket. An exposed bulb is switched on on the pillar of the lamp
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Professor Paul Chamberlain

Professor Paul Chamberlain

Co-Director C3RI, Head of Art and Design Research Centre, Director of Lab4Living and Director of Design Futures

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