<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/architecture/newsroom/stories/2025/designed-to-make-you-sit-up.php" dsn="news"><link>https://coadstories.uh.edu/2025/designed-to-make-you-sit-up/</link><featured/><top-stories>true</top-stories><pubDate>06/18/2025 03:34:52 PM</pubDate><title>Designed to Make You SIT Up</title><subtitle/><description>Take a seat — the winners of the annual SIT Furniture Design Awards include four industrial design students from the Hines College! Camila Campos, Mary Leath, and Diya Suresh Nair were part of associate professor and industrial design co-director Jeff Feng’s INDS 3500 studio. Rachel Feine (M.S. ’25) entered the competition independently, wanting to explore playful, modular design in furniture to foster imaginative play. </description><author>Nicholas Nguyen</author><image><img src="/architecture/newsroom/images/eddi-mary-leath.jpg" alt="Eddi Chair by Mary Leath"/></image><categories>Industrial Design,Awards</categories></item>