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Politics of Seating
2023
in collaboration with the design project
Hybrid Occasions
at UdK Fashion
Show
,
University of the Arts Berlin
,
Integer Programming
Stage design and seating arrangement for runway shows inevitably impose what Kondo calls the politics of seating. As desirable seats close to the stage are allocated with consideration, the importance of the front row exceeds its functional advantage and becomes a signifier of status.
The question arises if stage and space can be imagined in ways that level and amplify the experience for the audience overall, eroding the spatial hierarchies that produce the politics of seating.
Choreography and direction for UdK fashion show