# Rethinking the way we sit down

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2002
- Speaker: Niels Diffrient
- Year: 2002
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/niels_diffrient_rethinking_the_way_we_sit_down)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Design legend Niels Diffrient talks about his life in industrial design (and the reason he became a designer instead of a jet pilot). He details his quest to completely rethink the office chair starting from one fundamental data set: the human body.

## Lectures

1. [Rethinking the way we sit down](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/niels_diffrient_rethinking_the_way_we_sit_down/efeb1890fec8), 18 min (TED's player)