Indesign saw a new unprecedented sport introduced into the Brisbane work environment, Office Chair Hockey. The idea originated from Herman Miller’s “design of the decade” winning, office chair commercial which advertises their well known, high-performance, ergonomic Aeron Chair. Living Edge, supplier of the chair, held an Aeron Office Hockey Tournament, inviting top design and architectural firms of Brisbane to battle it out. The day was not short on excitement with matches containing an unbridled rich, competitive rival between industry leading firms.
The sport for the design conscience, is based on field hockey, using a small playing pitch, goal posts, hockey sticks and you guessed it eight office chairs . The only two rules of the event were: each player had to remain seated in their office chair during the entire game and no high sticking. Other than that absolute chaos reigned for two 5 minute periods of the match, whilst teams fought to get the puk through opposing goalposts. What better way to quell work place contention, let off steam and promote inter-office health and exercise. Needing minimal space and common office provisions the game has unfounded potential….. in fact participants of the event deemed it so successful that Office Chair Hockey could yet be the next Olympic sport.
If you were ever wondering what else there is to do in a chair, besides work…….you now have the answer.
Do you need any players?
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awesome, looks like something that i will be bringing up at the next office meeting at work,