Prototype completed
A full-scale concrete prototype established scale, posture, enclosure, and bodily relation.
Selected Design Project
Public Breastfeeding Chair
A public breastfeeding chair by Dafna Tzidkiyahu, developed from an artistic inquiry into a manufactured object for shared public space.
How can public space make room for breastfeeding while keeping mothers connected to family and the life around them? Dafna developed the chair through form, proportion, material, and the relationship between body, object, and place.
The chair supports the back and arms and includes magnetic attachment points for an optional fabric privacy cover.
Following a full-scale concrete prototype and industrial development, the production version is manufactured in Israel, has completed safety testing at the Standards Institution of Israel, and is moving toward its first municipal placements.
Project status
The project now spans a completed prototype, a manufactured production version, registered design protection, and preparation for municipal placement.
Production version
The current form has been translated into a repeatable manufactured version for permanent placement.
Design registered
Registered in Dafna Tzidkiyahu’s name in Israel and internationally: 73146 | DM/247540.
Municipal placement
First placements with local authorities in Israel are being prepared.
From prototype to public space
The project is documented through construction, prototyping, production, and use.
Concrete prototype
The full-scale prototype translated Dafna’s original design into a physical object and established its scale, posture, enclosure, and relation to the body.
Structural development
The steel framework records an early construction stage, when the drawn form became a full-scale body and structure, scale, and durability became tangible.
From prototype to production
The production version preserves the enveloping form of the prototype in PE, manufactured in Israel using rotomolding for permanent indoor and outdoor placement.
In its public context
Photographed beside a playground, the chair can be read at the scale of everyday civic life, alongside movement, family activity, and shared space.
Privacy as a choice
Magnetic attachment points on both sides allow a fabric cover to be added when privacy is desired, giving the mother control over the degree of openness.
Design development in 3D
The interactive model documents the industrial form and allows its volume, enclosure, and proportions to be read from every angle.
Care as public presence
What began as an artistic inquiry has become a civic object. The work considers how design can make care an ordinary and visible part of shared public life.
