The Bed Project is a seminar taught by Professor Jesse Reiser geared towards the design of inflatable furniture, to be used as audience seating during a series of “bed-in” conversations hosted by Professor Beatriz Colomina.

Inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Peace-In held at their hotel bed, Professor Colomina has conducted numerous performative interviews around the world with artists, architects, activists, psychoanalaysts, philosophers, and media theorists, all of them staged in bed. Professor Reiser proposes furniture as “the most concise representation of an architect’s design principles.” Centering participation, playfulness, and repose in furniture design intensifies Colomina’s bed interviews, reexamining the role of the audince and problematizing proscenium norms.





The issue of the surface in architecture was studied through 2D collage, 3D digital modeling, and then physical modeling and sewing techniques.  A waffle model was created from the digital and then wrapped and unwrapped to map a surface. This surface was then sewn to simulate inflatable qualities at a smaller scale.