500 Serial‑Unique Yellow Chair Postcards
A youth unmuted social sculpture at the House of Beautiful Business
On May 1st I created 500 serial uniques:
The Yellow Monoblock Chair.
The Yellow Chair stands for future generations and all muted voices
in any serious room where decisions are made.
It belongs to everyone.
No party. No side. No logo.
If you care about the people who aren’t in the room, it’s yours.
Each of the 500 cards was documented.
They will be given away at the House of Beautiful Business in Athens,
where we talk about a more‑than‑human world.
On the front:
a unique Yellow Chair painting, produced by my robot and finished by hand.
On the back:
a number linked to one concrete moment in history
where a Yellow Chair was missing –
a decision made without the people who had to live with it.
500 chairs.
500 stories.
500 reminders to look at the room you’re in now and ask:
“Who is affected by what happens here, but has no seat here?”
The list of all 500 moments and their matching cards
will live on my website as part of the artwork.
How the list was made
All history is written by those who remember –
by winners, by survivors, by whoever holds the pen.
For this work I didn’t just use AI as a tool,
I turned it into a witness and a mirror.
I fed it a simple prompt:
“Tell me 500 moments in human history where a Yellow Chair was missing.
Decisions made without the people who had to live with them.”
The model filled a spreadsheet:
wars
treaties
inventions
platforms
borders
laws
school reforms
medical experiments
climate deals
trade agreements
Is the list perfect? No.
It’s incomplete, biased, sometimes messy – just like human memory.
It reflects the blind spots of the data it was trained on.
That’s part of the point.
The list itself becomes part of the artwork:
We asked a machine: “What do you know about us?”
“When did we decide without a chair for those not in the room?”
It’s not an official history.
It’s an AI‑generated map of perceived power moments, curated and cleaned up by me.
A starting point to think, not an ending point to quote as fact.
And then comes the real question:
Who will fill that Yellow Chair in the future?
Will it be an AI in every decision room,
or a human mind that chooses to think twice and invite those who are missing?
Do we optimize only for efficiency –
or for the quality of who gets a seat?
The full list of 500 “missing‑chair” moments, and how each one maps to a card,
lives on this page as part of the work.
The Yellow Chair
What is this?
“It’s a Yellow Chair – a permanent seat for future generations and all muted voices in any room where decisions are made.”
We put it in rooms to ask one question: Who is affected by what happens here, but has no seat here?
MonoSerieⁿ: A Small Lab for New Work
Session description
At the House of Beautiful Business, Leon will bring MonoSerieⁿ – a small, always‑on lab where guests can literally see and feel the shift from effort to leverage.
Instead of watching a panel talk about “the future of work,” you stand next to a system that does the heavy lifting and ask:
What is “work” when the system does most of it?
What is my job when I am no longer just the worker, but the designer of systems?
MonoSerieⁿ is a concrete, visual way to experience:
algorithms,
Effort Collapse,
and “new work” as something you can touch, not just discuss.
You can participate live at the House of Beautiful Business 2026 in Athens.
We were invited by Alex Grots and the House of Beautiful Business to create a contribution that represents youth at the Forum.
On the youth side that means:
YETI scholars from the entrepreneurial scholarship in Dresden
plus the Turkish team that joined us
Together we merge into one group: the next generation training to take over the steering wheel and finish the open tasks the world is handing us.
The House decided to unmute us and backed that with real support:
Forum ticket covered
travel & accommodation covered
professional workshops (design thinking, etc.)
senior time and mentoring from Alex to help us put something meaningful together
Now it’s on us to make the most of that substrate and turn it into a contribution we’re proud of.
Youth Unmuted
The question we’re bringing to Athens:
Who shapes our perception – and who is missing from the room?
We realised about “youth”:
We are the most connected generation – and the loneliest.
We are smart, sensitive, politically aware – but trained as students, not owners. That tension is the whole story.
We won’t just inherit wealth; we’ll inherit all the unfinished work. If we don’t learn to own risk, we stay agents in a game that runs without us.
And AI?
AI becomes either the ultimate agent or the ultimate principal.
If we stay passive, algorithms own our reality.
If we step into the owner seat, we use AI to extend our responsibility, not escape it.