Wiki Seat: here's a structural support, make a stool

Nicolas Weidinger, one of our summer interns at Institute for the Future, created Wiki Seat last year as an industrial design project at Ohio State University. He designed a simple welded steel central structural support for a three-legged-stool (image left). Then he built and sold or gave away several hundred of them to a variety of folks and encouraged them to make their own legs and seat. Some of the results are terrifically creative and strange! Wiki Seat

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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allybeag

How can I get one of these catalysts? We make cane & rush seats. I’d love to make a seat based on one of those things!
- DrWeidinger
  
  allybeag, The guidelines for making catalysts are up on instructables. If you dont have a welder then hackerspaces.org can help with that.
  
  Alternatively I have an extra catalyst that I could send your way :)
Anonymous

Check Out SketchChair: http://diatom.cc/sketchchair
Brainspore

“Make a stool?” Ewwww, that thing’s in an OFFICE.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Something you should never say when you take a date to a bar: May I push your stool in for you?
Anonymous

Sadly, it looks like their wiki has been taken over by spam.
- DrWeidinger
  
  Yep the spam is totally out of control. If anyone wants to help fix this issue that would be awesome!
szielins

Then Michele Bachmann’s supporters claimed that all along they were tank traps.
ill lich

Oh, I’m gonna make a stool in that one on the right, for sure, just try and stop me.
- dculberson
  
  Just so long as you don’t breast feed while doing it.