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Gustavo Miranda and Silas Stempcoski Is Honored with the A' Design Award for Mode Modular Workstation in Furniture Design
Gustavo Miranda and Silas Stempcoski honored for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Mode Modular Workstation by Gustavo Miranda and Silas Stempcoski, designed for Federal University of ParanÁ, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Mode Modular Workstation
Mode is a modular workstation designed for home offices. Mode has three modules: a table, a seat and a kneeling module. In compact form, the furniture works as a side table beside a bed or sofa. The seat is pulled out from under the table, while the kneeling module unlocks with a button and becomes a rocking seat. The tabletop can be removed and used elsewhere. The structure is made of rectangular carbon steel tubes, and the seat base, kneeling module and tabletop are made of molded plywood. The design follows Brazilian ergonomic standards and encourages healthier posture habits at home.
About Gustavo Miranda and Silas Stempcoski
Gustavo is 22 years old, a design student at one of the best Universities in Brazil. And incredible as it may seem, the pandemic made him continue studying design, since before he planned to quit. The fact that he stayed at home every day, guaranteed him a greater reflection on himself, which ended up discovering this world, and little by little, his design projects started to be seen more, and be more appreciated. By the end of December, he clearly could see the importance of designers acting to help the world in times like this. All of this gave him this desire, to create and think about something new every day.
Award Record
This recognition makes Gustavo Miranda and Silas Stempcoski a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Furniture Design Award
The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Entries typically include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. Awarded furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/furniture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/114174
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/114174
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!114174
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/292114
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://bit.ly/3fAE78V
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Mode Modular Workstation
- Function
- Modular Workstation
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Lavender, Indian Red, Silver, Saddle Brown and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Federal University of ParanÁ
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Gustavo Miranda and Silas Stempcoski
- Country
- Brazil
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #114174
Credits
- Team
- Gustavo Alves Miranda and Silas Stempcoski
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- MODE is a modular workstation for home environments that optimizes the home office workplace. In its form and function, it seeks to escape from the classical look and feel of office furniture, conveying a creative and fun side for the home environment, encouraging the users to healthier posture habits. Many home office users feel tempted to work in nontraditional locations. MODE does not dictate what is right or wrong, although it increases the possibilities, optimizes workstations, brings joy and comfort, within a furniture for those who work alone.
- Inspiration
- A design solution that addresses the health consequences due to bad posture and social isolation, potentialized in the Covid-19 pandemic situation, where home office activities have increased fairly. The home comfort is conducive to harmful postures to the spine, due to activities performed in irregular postures, which can, in the long run, mark young people for the rest of their lives. Furthermore, this scenario may lead people to develop mental health issues, increasing discomfort and low life quality. The research base for this project was interviews with users, analysis of work environments, benchmarking, and ergonomic Brazilian standards.
- Research
- The objective of the project was to develop a furniture solution to improve posture and, with that in mind, research started. The first findings showed that the target audience most affected were young people and young adults, who were still developing their posture habits and were, at the time, lockdown in quarantine due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Hence, having to work in a home office, and online learning. After defining the target audience, online surveys were formulated to be applied alongside other materials. Among them, protocols for registering the users' work environments through photos and videos.
- Challenge
- The most difficult part was to make the furniture all compacted, at the same time that it needed to present several usability modes. And all of this needed to be in the Brazilian ergonomic standards for office furniture.
- Realization and Technology
- For the structure of all the modules, carbon steel tubes with rectangular sections were used. For the base of the seat, the kneeling module, and the tabletop, molded multi-laminated plywood sheets were used. The upholstered has a plywood base, filled with 33 density foam, which can be covered with different types of fabrics.
- Operation and Interaction
- The product features 3 modules, table, seat, and kneeling module, which can work in different ways. For the compact mode, the furniture work as a side table, adjusting itself to the user’s environment, besides their bed or sofa. Thus, encouraging the use, and promoting a greater feeling of coziness. For using the seat, simply pull the chair from under the table. For using the kneeling module, it is necessary to press the lower button, unlocking the module which can be pulled with the other hand. This movement automatically turns it into a rocking chair, allowing it to tilt back and forth, enabling the user to position themselves in other ways.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in July 2020, and the current version was presented in November 2020. Was completely developed in Curitiba, Brazil.
- Specifications
- The user’s work surface is 580 mm wide and 600 mm deep, it also applies to the compacted furniture. For the seat, the user enjoys a width of 520 mm for hip accommodation, 100 degrees inclination of the backrest, and 180 mm for the correct lumbar fit, complying with Brazilian standards. For the kneeling position MODE, the device ensures the correct angulation for the user’s legs, with the seat height of 500 mm, and knee inclination according to the standards of the furniture market for this purpose.
- Keywords
- Postural improvement, table, chair, modular, furniture, home office
