Humans are addicted to sitting. Chairs seem to suck us in. When we enter a room with a chair in it, we feel the irresistible urge to sit down. Despite a growing body of scientific evidence that asserts that prolonged sitting has adverse health effects ("sitting is the new smoking") designers are still trying to reinvent the chair. But why the fixation on chairs? What if, rather than thinking through design archetypes, we focus on activity? - Harvard Design Magazine

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‘Het Marineterrein’ is an initiative of the city of Amsterdam to create a new work landscape in the former navy area of the city, Different forms of new collaboration are at the moment initiated in this area. The former commanders House is situated on a unique spot in this area along the water. The house at the moment partly used for lectures and meetings and houses as well a temporal office that works on the development of the area.