The S.E.A.T Project teaches children about social responsibility, their own gifts & talents and encourages community engagement. The S.E.A.T Project was designed by UNSW Art & Design graduate Niki Banados as part of the Hands That Shape Humanity ‘Hand Up’ mentor program. It is a small bamboo stool for children and is produced in a sustainable bamboo factory in Vietnam, where they use … [Read more...]
SEAT Designer – Niki Banados
Niki Banados, a 2009 graduate student from UNSW Art & Design Sydney, elected to participate in the Hands That Shape Humanity Project as part of her 4th year program. She was asked to design an “ordinary product with an extraordinary message” inspired by the influential Hands That Shape Humanity participants. Niki designed SEAT, a sustainable stool made from bamboo, that uses no glue, no … [Read more...]
Vietnam
How is SEAT made? Watch SEAT make the journey from Vietnam to your door step. SEAT is manufactured in a sustainable factory in Thanh Hoa, 5 hours south of Hanoi, Vietnam. The S.E.A.T Project has provided machinery to the factory to assist in the development and manufacturing of SEAT. The factory itself uses local renewable energy resources. They use the off cuts from the bamboo to fuel the … [Read more...]
Butterfly Effect
They say that the flutter of a butterfly's wings on one side of the world can trigger a hurricane on the other side of the planet. At the S.E.A.T Project, we like to think that a small stool built in Vietnam can trigger a hurricane of good all over Australia and hopefully, the world. SEAT, a small stool made entirely of bamboo, was designed by Niki Banados, a UNSW Art & Design graduate, … [Read more...]
Cradle-to-Cradle Design
The S.E.A.T Project is more than a simple gesture towards sustainable, socially innovative design. In fact, we have built our entire social business model on the principles of Cradle-to-Cradle design theory and social change theory. Cradle-to-Cradle theory, a term first coined by German scientist Michael Braungart and American architect William McDonough, refers to a conception of design where … [Read more...]
Support Us
Whether you are a small community group wanting to invest some of your hard-won fundraising into a good cause, or a large company seeking to make a measurable difference to children in our community or the literacy crisis globally, you have come to the right place. So take a SEAT, or better still, sponsor the S.E.A.T Project by purchasing the Education Package for a school, or many schools – … [Read more...]