In this week’s Interaction Designer Methodologies I was presented to STATIC!, a project that investigates design as a way of increasing people’s awareness of their energy consumption. This has a special interest for me, since I’ve already worked on a project in this field with ISA.
In Sweden, a law was passed that makes the use of Automatic meter reading mandatory. The STATIC! project used that data to produce some provocative objects. From patterns on bathroom tiles that disappear with too much water to curtains that save the solar power and emit light in night, they produced an interesting series of prototypes.
The Time magazine nominated this Flower Lamp for the Best Inventions of 2006.