Friday, 9 June 2017
Ikea is working with American space experts at NASA to figure out how to make furniture for people in densely populated cities. The Swedish furniture company is sending a team of designers to an astronaut training facility in Utah. The group will be locked inside a ‘spaceship environment’ for three days to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges that spacefarers face working in cramped environments. The head of the project, Ikea Creative Leader Michael Nikolic, describes the reason behind the strange collaboration in a company press release: “I think that the essence of this collection will be about appreciating what we…
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