Global Design New York University: Spotlight: NEA Studio

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Spotlight: NEA Studio - "Latitude Lamps"

Living Lamp 1 is the first prototype in the Living Lamp Series. It is an art/solar lamp made in Brooklyn NY from local recycled corten steel. By adjusting the tilt of the solar panel, the lamp can be fabricated in any geographic location, applied indoors or outdoors, assembled in various ways into screens, or blown up to inhabitable scale. The aim of the project is to explore the perception of sunlight filtered through solar cells.

Latitude Lamp 1, is the first working prototype in a series called Latitude Lamps. Two interlocking cubes forms the basic design module. A solar lamp consists of one module. Many modules can be assembled in a variety of ways into screens of different types.

Living Lamp 1 is designed around the material characteristics required by the specified amorphous thin-film solar panel as a starting point. The lamp is dimensioned to frame the solar panel (15x15cm) and accompanying batteries, wires and LED lights.

Latitude Lamps Project Page | NEA Studio

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Global warming effects pose new challenges to the architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design communities. The immediate response has been a turn toward a host of energy-saving technologies. What has rarely been addressed, however, is the problem of scale. How can the designer make sure that global solutions do not come at the expense of local traditions, cultures, and environments? By placing human rational, emotional, technological, and social needs at the center of our environmental concerns, we propose a new GLOBAL [Global Local Open Border Architecture and Landscape] design initiative.

We seek a Global yet still Local design that can Open the sociopolitical Borders that all too often separate Architecture from its Landscape. The overreaching aim is to develop a language of design that can create proximity between individual responsibility and the current global environmental crisis. We see environmental problems as a crisis of human alienation from the natural world, and our initiative will explore ways in which design can reformat the unfortunate separation. In our plea for proximity between the individual and the global we will explore, in the words of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a design that is "as close to the beyond as to things near" when we evoke "our power to imagine ourselves elsewhere."