In 1974, Paul and Percival Goodman wrote ("Communitas, Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life") that a child accepts the human built background as the inevitable nature of things and does not realize that somebody once drew some lines on a piece of paper who might have drawn otherwise.

Today, with a population that has almost doubled in 35 years, that acceptance, as noted by the Goodmans, is made more complex by people on the move, e.g. the average citizen changes residences every five years and neighborhood populations turn over every seven years. How to address these demands of growth and movement in a contemporary and modern day setting is the focus of good design professionals. Decision-makers and citizens look to their leadership. Growth is a design issue.

Interaction of the community in public spaces is often influenced by rest or leisure space. We observe that people seldom sit next to each other on public benches either on the street, in the park or in museums. The Seat design offers individual seating which can be expanded, reversed, or separated to allow a table between the cylinders. Cast in concrete, in a variety of colors and textures, it is a durable, low maintenance, stable piece of public furniture. The seat slab and cylinders are separate pieces that are assembled on site.