Designers delude themselves if they think of design a pure creation. In our contemporary world, design is much closer to consumption. The design process begins with online idea shopping and concludes by ordering catalog materials. In the coming carbon-zero world, designers should not continue this design attitude. The time of design and fabricating as assembling standardized material is about to be over.  

In a time of supply chain crisis, resource depletion, and global warming, there may no longer be standardized materials with high precision or materials that ship from halfway around the world. Designers should understand the material world around them deeply and face up to materials' physical and chemical properties. Design is not making the desired object but programming a material to behave as desired. In other words, the process of fabrication, of making is more critical than the idea of an ideal shape. Designers design materials, and the result follows with time. 

This project proposes a design method for wood chairs for the zero-carbon era. Woods are not kiln-dried and chemically treated to make into standardized boards anymore. Designers should understand how the wood changes from the moment it is harvested. Trees are losing their moisture contents slowly and changing their shape and material properties. Designers step into this natural process. We do not design and fabricate the final shape but guide the wood to shape as desired and wait for it to shape itself.

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