Date: sep-dec 2007. Duration: 3 months.
Duration: 3 months
PARTICIPANTS: 6 INdustrial design MA STUDENTS
FACILITATORS: Max Munnecke
Place: Technical Universtity of Denmark

The aim of this project is to develop a radical new innovation in the area of lightning at festival camp sites.

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There are two main developments that give reason to believe that there are new business and user experience opportunities to be explored in the way people use light.

Firstly, there is the recent introduction of LEDs (Light Emitting Diode) into the mass consumer market. Though LEDs and diodes have been around for some time their price and functionality (brightness and color) is now coming to a point where they have the potential to be integrated into a variety of uses. Low energy consumption combined with increasingly powerful batteries makes it feasible to create smaller, lighter and unwired devices.

Secondly, there are signs that light as a decorative, communicative, symbolic and emotional element in peoples everyday life is on the rise. Light is so to speak about to become a new versatile element for people to create new experience. Light bulbs now comes with many different colors and people design the light setting as much as other elements of their home. Also in the public room there is an increased attention to the composition of light, - not to mention the truly stunning light show that are seen at concerts and memorials.

People's increased sensitivity and appreciation of light is not widely understood yet and with new cheap, durable, intelligent technological solutions just out of the laboratory, there is a new space to envision out-of-the-box practices and concepts.

Practice

Though the final concepts will be developed with a festival camp site in mind, we will start out by looking more generally at different contemporary practices that may inspire and influence the practice of using light at festival camp sites. Furthermore we will investigate a range of aspects that may either enable or constrain future practices, so that we competently can envision new practices.

In the project we will be using practice-oriented methodologies, actor-network theory,  historical research, trend research and scenario techniques, which will be introduced and explained on a need-to-know basis by the advisors at DTU.

An Example of a Practice

Life of a Practice

The first step in the project is to analyse the past and present practices. We are in particular interested in how practices changes and their elements (understandings, competences and actors) emerge and diffuse.

Context of Practices

As we deepen our understanding and insight about particular practices we can extend our theoretical to encompass the context of practices. The dynamics of practices are influenced by and influence a range of different factors.

Scenario Process

When we have a thorough insight to the past and present dynamics we may have gained a feeling of what may happen in the future. We use herein scenario techniques to envision what may happen the future.