Life Lamp - Connecting Design and People Through Emotion
Daniel Nunes Locatelli, Leonardo Prazeres Veloso de Souza, Guilherme Giantini, Vitor Curti, Carlos Augusto Joly Requena · eCAADe proceedings · 2020
Nowadays it is possible to use technology to achieve emotion-oriented products related to the user experience. The aim of this paper is to address a design exploration that combines the use of algorithmic modeling in order to create a design that seeks to express meaning through emotional bonds with people. Life Lamp was created to represent a life cycle as a sensitive object consisting of three layers and a unique shade that produces a complex image, expressing the paths and surprises of our existence. The design process is a hybrid between top-down and bottom-up approaches. The designers worked both with a predefined heart-like 3D model as the design base and with agent-based modeling, widely explored by Craig Reynolds in the 1980s. Life lamp is a product that emerged as a result of Estudio Guto Requena's research that investigates the impact of digital culture through design by seeking to merge technology and affection.