The AWARE Lifestyle Collection is a collection of thoughtfully designed energy aware products that fit into people’s everyday life, their personal needs and their different lifestyles.
Below we present the designs that are included in the AWARE Lifestyle Collection. We will continously update this site with new designs resulting from our project.
The AWARE Chandelier puts focus on the aesthetics and use of low energy light bulbs. It combines the design and status of a classic cut-glass chandelier with modern materials and energy efficient low energy light bulbs. Through the AWARE Chandelier we place the low energy lamp, an energy-saving product that are often considered as something ugly and boring, in a new context and present it as something beatiful.
The AWARE Laundry Lamp is both a lamp and a washstand. In traditional light bulbs, 95% of the energy is transferred into heat, and only 5% into light. The AWARE Laundry Light gives you the possibility to create your own lamp design and at the same time save energy through hang-drying your clothes!
The AWARE Energy Clock can display the total energy consumption for a household or for single appliances. It visually and pedagogically compares the consumption with previous days, hours or minutes. The AWARE Energy Clock is wirelessly connected to an energy meter and can be integrated into mobile objects, and thus serve as an ambient display.
The AWARE Puzzle Switch is an on/off button designed in order to encourage people to switch of their light, by playing with people’s built-in desire for order.
It also gives much more feedback of its current state than a traditional switch.
AWARE Puzzle Switch is off.
AWARE Puzzle Switch is on.
Finalizing our prototypes Share AWARE Light and AWARE Handle, as well as writing papers and documenting our work.
2008-03-13 Loove Broms held a presentation at the Swedish National Energy Convention (Energitinget) about Designing for Energy Awarness.
2008-03-12 The Energy AWARE Clock and AWARE Energy Lamp where exchibited at the Swedish National Energy Convention (Energitinget) at Stockholm International Fairs.
2007-10-31 AWARE Laundry Lamp will be exhibited at "Kvarteret Framtiden - en mötesplats med klimatprat" at Sickla Köpkvarter, Nacka in Stockholm from November 1st to December 13th, 2007.
2007-10-09 AWARE Laundry Lamp is brought back to the home where we got the inspiration for creating it.
2007-09-13 AWARE Energy Watch is part of Interactive Institute's exhibition in the Future of Green Pavillion at Wired NextFest, Los Angeles.
2007-09-12 AWARE Chandelier is exhibited at Svensk Form, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, as an example of products that use design as a tool for sustainable development. The exibition is part of Svensk Form's campaign "Saving the Planet in Style" and will be displayed until October 14, 2007.
2007-06-26 AWARE Chandelier is exhibited at the UN's Third International Expert Meeting on Sustainable Consumption and Production under the Marrakech process at Djurönäs, Stockholm, 26-29 June.
2007-06-15 The AWARE project meets with external researchers Annika Carlsson-Kanyama and Minna Räsänen for a project review.
2007-06-12 Our thesis students Leila Virkkula, Jonas Andersson and Jenny Bergström, are presenting their work at a seminar at Power Studio in Eskilstuna.
2007-06-08 Our thesis students Mikael Aggefors and Christoffer Johansson present their work at a seminar in Kista.
2007-05-29 Jenny Bergström presented her Master thesis 'Fear and design' at the NORDES design conference.
2007-05-29 Karin Ehrnberger presented her Master thesis 'Materializing Gender' at the NORDES design conference.
2007-05-27 Erika Lundell, Loove Broms and Karin Ehrnberger presented at the Doctoral Consortium at the NORDES design conference.
2007-05-27 AWARE Chandelier is exhibited at the NORDES design conference held in Stockholm, 27-30 May.
2007-05-13 AWARE Chandelier and AWARE Laundry Lamp are presented in DN Kultur, Sweden's largest news paper, as good examples of sustainable design.
2007-05-11 AWARE member Karin Ehrnberger has exhibited her work ’Design and gender’, among some of Sweden’s most renowned designers, at the NORD Style 2007 exhibition in Berlin.
2007-05-04 Emelie Jutvik presents her Master's thesis Fjärrvärmeanvändning i flerbostadshus. Relationen mellan energi- och vattenanvändning i studenbostäder at Interactive Institute, Kista.
