{"id":192,"date":"2012-11-10T16:12:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T16:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2012\/11\/rocking-chair-knits-winter-hats.html"},"modified":"2015-10-19T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:20:10","slug":"rocking-chair-knits-winter-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2012\/11\/rocking-chair-knits-winter-hats.html","title":{"rendered":"Rocking Chair Knits Winter Hats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rocking-chair-knits-winter-hats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2836\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rocking-chair-knits-winter-hats-500x480.jpg\" alt=\"rocking chair knits winter hats\" width=\"500\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rocking-chair-knits-winter-hats-500x480.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rocking-chair-knits-winter-hats.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shown in the ruckstuhl building as part of ECAL&#8217;s &#8216;low-tech factory&#8217; exposition during designers&#8217; saturday in Langenthal, Switzerland is &#8216;Rocking Knit&#8217; &#8211; a design that makes the transition to the winter season a little less onerous. Students of university of art and design Lausanne Damien Ludi and Colin Peillex created a chair that will fashion its user a beanie as they leisurely rock back and forth, activating gears that put the machine to work as its sitter relaxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The project is in response to the exhibition&#8217;s theme, where students were required to reinterpret the idea of manufacture &#8211; deconstructing the fabrication process of a product to a slower, more considered pace. Designers&#8217; saturday showcased the work in the ruckstuhl carpet factory, appropriately surrounding the work by spools of thread and feverish machinery, connecting concept and real-world techniques in a meaningful way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/design\/ecal-low-tech-factory-rocking-chair-knits-winter-hats\/\" target=\"_blank\">See and read more<\/a>. Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/08\/windpowered-knitting-machine-.html\" target=\"_self\">Wind powered knitting machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shown in the ruckstuhl building as part of ECAL&#8217;s &#8216;low-tech factory&#8217; exposition during designers&#8217; saturday in Langenthal, Switzerland is &#8216;Rocking Knit&#8217; &#8211; a design that makes the transition to the winter season a little less onerous. Students of university of art and design Lausanne Damien Ludi and Colin Peillex created a chair that will fashion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[315,122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}