WantedDesign Chicago

Unfolding chair by Chilab

ChiLab is a thinktank for innovation in design, technology, and art based in Chicago, IL.
The collective is comprised of Ben Stagl, Bo Rodda, Chiu Kuan-Wen, Jason Gillette, and Max Davis.
Ben Stagl’s work blurs the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, and interior design. Bo Rodda is a designer, visual artist, technologist, and educator, with a trans-disciplinary background that integrates traditional arts and the sciences with digital, interactive, visual, and industrial design; he has done extensive research into high performance and sustainable design. Chiu Kuan-Wen holds a BA in Economics from National Taipei University (2007) and a Master of Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2012). Jason Gillette is an architect and designer whose work aims to mediate the social, infrastructural, and psychological conditions that make up urban life. Max Davis spent five years in the dungeons of Cornell University’s Department of Architecture, Art, and Planning.