Flower Lamp

The Flower Lamp builds on an increasingly prevalent technology – remote energy metering – to visualise electricity used in the household as a whole.

It is not just the light of the Flower Lamp – but its actual form – that reflects energy consumption in the home. Its shape is responsive to the overall trend in consumption.

With a decrease in household electrical use, the Flower Lamp slowly opens up and appears to ‘bloom’. If, on the other hand, energy consumption increases, the lamp closes into a more contracted form, which also affects the quality of light emitted.

In order to make the Flower Lamp more beautiful, a collective change in behaviour is needed. The Flower Lamp is one of the prototypes from the Interactive Institute's project "Static!" and was made in collaboration with Front Design.