STATIC! DESIGNING FOR ENERGY AWARENESS.

Author: Mazé, Ramia
Country: Sweden
Language: English
Year Published: 2010
No. of pages: 123
Illustrations: 45 Color Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9 1/2”x 7”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9789185689347
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 6612

Price: $32.00

This book presents the design examples from a project called Static!, that was led by Interactive Institute and funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, as well as perspectives on issues in (sustainable) design today. Grounded in passion and humor, as well as rigor and research, the book asks designers and consumers – that is, all of us – to rethink the form, and future, of electricity in the world around us. Static! explores design as a basis for increasing awareness of energy. Familiar furnishings and products have been reinterpreted to materialize electricity, to make it more visible and tangible for people. The resulting series of conceptual design examples express the poetics – and politics – of everyday electricity consumption. List of product participants and extensive references.