Butt print

With human footprint we usually refer to the human influence on the environmental system of our planet, this metaphor recalls to our mind the action of walking, moving, passing through. However these actions are way too far from the actual ones with an environmental impact that we perform daily. In fact the most of these last actions are performed while sitting. That is why we propose a shift from footprint to buttprint.

Trace of the thermochromic fabric on the office chair after 15m of sitting
Working station in the atelier, unibz
Chair in the corridor

Chair pillow tracer

In order to develop an object that could produce buttprint traces we decided to design a chair pillow.

Developed with Joost Pantelmann
Padding tests
Padding with waste from the upholsterer