PAWPAW Drum Chair

• Prize
  Winner in Others Tables & desks
• Designer
  Fang-Ping Hsu
• Lead Designer(Other)
  Lai,Chien-Chen/prof.Li,Kai-Chu
• School
  Ming Chi University of Technology (McUt)
• Location
  Taiwan
• Project Date
  2020.12.02

Taiwan's indigenous people mainly rice and millet farming as the main, white rice production will have the remaining rice shell, and located in the subtropical region of Taiwan is also rich in pineapple as the main cash crop, after the harvest will remain a lot of pineapple leaves, we combine the above two crop waste, as the main material of the "PAWPAW Drum Chair".

"PAWPAW Drum Chair" uses agricultural waste to create new environmentally friendly materials, connects the music culture of the Amis people, awakens the rhythmic tone of the indigenous people deeply rooted in the blood and genes from an early generation, creates the "PAWPAW Drum Chair" to accompany the children to learn and grow, the warrior drum (PAWPAW drum) is an indispensable joyful instrument in the celebration, through the beat rhythm and the ancient tunes of the song and the ancestral dialogue, and inherits the aboriginal ritual culture spirit.

Red and black is one of the traditional Amis's costume colors, with seat cushions and drums as the main colors, and the use of traditional weaving dotted with drum frames. The Octagon's totem is as guardian as the mother's, always conservative next to his children.