Pacific Rim 3

Lighting @ the 100% Design show in Tokyo (modular felt lighting and textiles by Takehiro Ando; Pool florescent tripod light by InDesign; and a flexible glowing snake made from rubber off-cuts.

Sustainable mesages @ 100% Design: When you pull out a chopstick from the glowing tree, a leaf shudders and then falls to the ground; amazing shoes made out of dried leaves (by Kanako Igaue - Environmental Design Student work from Kyoto University - World Trade Zero project).

Presentation and hands-on demonstration of Mongoose Studio's interactive light art, emotional lit furniture, and innovative technology

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Mongoose - RGBy Desk: not demonstrated at lecture, an amazing table

Mr. Taira, engineer at Kyosemi, presented Sphelar, spherical micro-solar cells that function at any angle and can be cast into transparent solids and flexible matrices.
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Students take in the magic of Sphelar technology

Historically, sources of light have been inextricably linked to their own energy supplies, in a singular object (such as the torch, candle, oil lamp, etc.) with tangible waste of soot, carbon, or ash. Today, man made lighting is often powered by distant, abstract sources of energy, always available and disassociated from the waste it produces. This studio explores the power of connecting light to the energy it consumes, the waste it creates, and the activities that it illuminates.

How can the design of an illuminated object or space inspire people to act and think about the environment in more responsible ways?

Image credits (from L to R): NASA image of the earth at night from space; loop.ph; Mighty Light - Fast Company magazine - 9/01/2006; Materialise.MGX; Jim Campbell.