Riley Hooker creates inflatable seating informed by "slime mold" for collective gathering

During this year's NYCxDesign festival, local designer Riley Hooker has created a modular and twisting inflatable seating system informed by "slime mold" meant to acts as a gathering place in times of "crisis".

Fabricated by Rhode Island design studio Pneuhouse and created in collaboration with designer Nick Meehan, SIT(UATION) was installed in Creative Time HQ (CTHQ), a "gathering space for art and politics" in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.