The +Bench
Group effort to design an inclusive bench for Design Museum Street Seats competition, 2018
The +Bench provides endless seating options to meet our diverse needs.
Along with my phenomenal GBD Architects colleagues, I dove into universal design via the Design Museum Street Seats Competition.
Urban furniture is known more for its consistency and durability than its ergonomics or flexibility. All of our wonderful bodies and needs are different. Ideally, a public bench invites a wide range of bodies to use it, so that many can find comfort there. That’s why we designed the flexible +Bench.
I was also honored to write a guest post on the Design Museum Foundation Blog about our collaborative process to develop a flexible, accessible bench. While this post was lost in the Design Museum’s website transfer/upgrade in late 2019, you can still read it by clicking here.