Taking Seat

What are the forces set in motion by sitting? What are the technologies and techniques of sitting? Scholars like anthropologist Tim Ingold argue that we have been living in The Sitting Society for a long time. The Sitting Society is built on the idea that in order for the mind to work at its’ best, the body should be in rest. The thinker, innovator and researcher sit down, doing work, figuring things out, setting things in motion. At a drawing board, with a book or with a laptop. Sitting is simultaneously seen as a health problem, an epidemic, extended times of sitting as harmful. Then again, for many people, sitting is required for mobility. Taking seat in a vehicle, in a train, a car, on a bicycle or for that matter in a wheel chair.