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- KÖNIGSWINTER Light Sculpture: A Second Life for Historic FibreglassThe KÖNIGSWINTER Light Sculpture by Heilig Objects is a unique wall-mounted artwork made from a historic amber-gold corrugated fibreglass sheet. German factories produced these…
- Luminous Re-weave: Upcycled Textiles Become Modular, Architectural LightLuminous Re-weave is a lighting installation by Ling Sha and Yucheng Tang that brings together craft, technology, and circular design. It shows how discarded…
- New Light-Responsive Resin Enables Sustainable 3D Printing with Minimal WasteA new 3D printing technique developed by engineers at MIT could transform how designers across industries create complex, high-precision parts. The innovation uses a…
- Glow-in-the-Dark Wood Offers Sustainable Lighting SolutionsImagine a wooden deck, fence, or even an interior feature that lights up automatically at dusk, without relying on traditional energy sources. Thanks to…
- Cinema of woven lightIt sounds ominous: a cinema designed in the space of a former abattoir. How do you turn one cool cavern into a second, more…
- New MOF material uses light to capture carbon dioxideMetal-organic frameworks (MOF) are a new class of highly porous materials. They are compounds consisting of metal ions or clusters coordinated to organic ligands to form one-, two-, or three-dimensional structures. A…
- This Light Installation is Advocating for Cleaner, Healthier CitiesVel02 is an interactive installation of light by design studio Loop.pH that highlights the link between physical activity and healthy cities. Commissioned by Shin…
- Robotic Forming Enables Modular Aluminium LightingDigital fabrication offers new ways to shape metal without conventional tooling. Hikarigami, a student project by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, won the…
- Painting With Light: MIT’s MorphoChrome Enables Programmable Structural ColourResearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed MorphoChrome, a new fabrication system that allows designers to apply iridescent, colour-changing effects to…
- A pendant light and room divider made of luffaDesigner Samer Selbak designed a pendant light and a room divider made of two fundamentally different materials: steel and luffa. Called the Luffa Project,…
- A mass timber canopy with 3D printed colourful lightsA group of architecture students from the Canadian University of Calgary completed a 70 feet long mass-timber canopy that includes interactive 3D printed colourful…
- Lighting 100 LED bulbs with one drop of waterResearchers from City University of Hong Kong developed a new type of droplet-based electricity generator, which is powerful enough to generate a voltage of…
- Lights made of conductive glassFor her project Ctenphora, French designer Lucie Le Guen explored the possibility of incorporating electrical circuits into glass, making the electrical wires part of…
- Lights with patterns created by bacteriaSwedish designer Jan Klingler created lights coloured by the growing patterns of bacteria, yeast and fungi. Through the help of microbiologist M.D. Ph.D. Volkan…
- A light installation powered by micro-organismsFor het project Electric Life, designer Teresa van Dongen developed a light installation powered by micro-organisms commonly found in the muddy soil of rivers…
- Mushroom light shadesIn the past two years, we have reported several times on mycelium, the threadlike network of fungi. This material grows fast and in any…
- Recreate the Northern Light with Glass and FilmThanks to electrically charged solar particles colliding into the earth’s atmosphere, the Aurora borealis gifts the northern skies with dancing colours. And this local…
- Unfolding lightIllumination comes in many forms, and few are as attractive as this unfolding lamp. Clever use of common materials makes this a lighting element…
- Recycled Plastic Shapes Sound And Light In Ninefold InstallationNinefold: A Distributed Resonant Field is an immersive installation that demonstrates how recycled plastic can actively influence sound, light and spatial perception. Created by…
- Modular Timber Façade Uses Variation To Shape Light And ShadowThe WA MA façade uses approximately 3,000 suspended solid-wood cubes to create a three-dimensional screen around a private residence in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel. Roni…
- Elephant Manure and Recycled Plastic Turned into Festival LightingThis year, researchers will test outdoor lighting made from recycled plastic, plant-based materials and elephant manure at the TT Festival in Assen, the Netherlands.…
- Recycled Compact Discs Used as Light-Responsive Architectural SurfacesThe exhibition Stratagems by US-based artist Tara Donovan explores how large quantities of identical waste materials can form new spatial systems. The works consist…
- House of Monitors Integrates Light, Structure, and Material Strategy on the Scarborough BluffsHouse of Monitors is a private residence by Williamson Williamson Inc., located on the edge of the Scarborough Bluffs in Toronto, Canada. The project…
- Recycled Lava As A Material Innovation For Lighting DesignItalian lighting manufacturer Foscarini presents Alicudi, Filicudi and Panarea, a series of suspension lamps made from recycled lava stone. Designed by Alberto and Francesco…
