Sad Chairs of Academia

You think you're having a hard time in academia, but have you ever thought of the chairs? Will no-one think of the chairs?

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New dean’s office. 

(I debated whether to include this as a sad chair but there was something about its posture...) 

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Truly tragic beauty. 

Heriot-Watt (Edinburgh) campus woods. Submitted by @thedeadsocialscientist

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“Broken”. Indeed. 

Brockington Building, Loughborough University (submitted by Saul)

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#SadChairsOfAcademia - #WFH edition. Lockdown is wearing on everyone. Melbourne, Australia.

Submitted by Twitter’s @jod999.

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Huddling for warmth in the mail room at the University of Colorado

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Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus.

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Outside the Broad Center for the Biological Sciences, Caltech. 2020.

Broken-backed chair perched precariously at the top of an open-air staircase. Exposed to the harsh elements and scorned by the Earth.

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Chair in a gutter. Hard to be more sad. Another #SadChairsOfAcademia - #WFH edition. 

Submitted by Twitter’s @rellypops. 

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#HigherEd these days - askew, dysfunctional, unsupportive. 

A university in Melbourne, Australia.

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#SadChairs, #WFH (work from home) edition, from the streets of Melbourne, Australia.

1) Solo sidewalk seat, sapped. From Twitter’s @jod999.

2) Collapsed camping chair, prostrate next to forgotten floral couch. From Twitter’s @rellypops. 

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At least it has some shade. 

Cornell University, USA.

From Insta’s @kpkurz.

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The first ever submitted #sadAVlecternsofacademia! I’m sure there are many out there. 

University of Nottingham, UK.

From Twitter’s @5tuartreeves.

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Scheming to get back in through that green door... 

Under the Library, University of Newcastle, Australia.

From Twitter’s @clareifications.

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‘Storage not permitted in loading area’. Indeed.

University of Newfoundland, Canada.

From Twitter’s @upalonger.

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Hunched in defeat. And the elevator never came.

University of Melbourne, Australia.

From Twitter’s @unimelbMDHS.

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From desolate loneliness to crammed neglect - is no-one thinking of the chairs? 

University of British Columbia, Canada. 

From Twitter’s @obrienatrix.

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A moment of light and hope: rescued #sadchairsofacademia in their new home! 

University of Cape Town, South Africa.

From Twitter’s @pickeringrobyn.