Expandable Living (with Jens Gustavsson)

»It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the
most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change.«––Charles Darwin

Stockholm is said to be the city with the highest percentage of single person households. In the world. Many of them are students. As a student you often have a great circle of friends but less square metres to invite them to.

Gustavsson's and Brandt's work contains an expandable table, chair and a lamp. The chair can not be folded down to a flat package to be stowed away, as many other chairs. It is a one man chair for a one man household that can expand to a bench for ten friends. It has two active states but no passive one. Its volume is redistributed so that it occupies less practical space needed for other things. Knud Brandt explains:

»Earlier we have made different concepts of space saving storage. We decided to collaborate and combine all our ideas on collapsibility.«

The same idea goes for the lamp. You unroll it when friends are invited, making the lamp spread light over a greater area than in its rolled up state. It is the expandable living instead of the compact.

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