Slow Light
A lamp that requires a ritual to turn on.
Program
Athos Argue Hassanein
Creator
Industrial Design 2027
Before electric light, illuminating a room was a process. One gathered materials, prepared a flame, tended it. That relationship disappeared within a generation.
The result is a world in which light is produced and discarded without thought, and a night sky that no longer meaningfully exists across most of the United States.