Metaproject 04

Student presenting project to the industry partner. He is pointing to a prototype and industry partner is evaluating the work.

Student at the studio space evaluating prototype's measurements. The student is testing the prototype on themselves.

Student at the studio space building a table prototype.

Students and faculty gathered together in an outdoor space.

Professor Owen and Elizabeth Lamark at the photo studio talking about the photoshoot of the work.

Student presenting the final project at the art gallery.

Students and guests looking at the display for metaproject 04 at ICFF.

Three students showing their exhibitor badge at ICFF.

Students together having fun at the metaproject 04 exhibition.

In the fall of 2013, student designers, in partnership with award-winning, century old furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, tackled the challenges associated with building and enhancing relationships in the workplace.

Focusing on the Living Office vision and Herman Miller’s recent history, students debated the evolution of work and the current definition of a “relationship”, and test how furnishings and space empower and enable interactions that extend beyond a simple point of connection. An emphasis was placed on the following three relationship archetypes: person-to-person, digitally-mediated, and those that exist between people and their tools. Results of the collaboration were exhibited at Design Week in New York City in May, 2014.

Students