ECOLUME
University / Self-Initiated
2025
Interactive Designer & Prototyper
A kinetic lamp designed to evoke empathy between humans and artificial nature. It blends light, motion, and gesture recognition to simulate delicate ecosystem interactions, reacting to hand shadowgraphy.
Gesture-Recognition Integration: Development of a camera-based system that recognizes specific hand shadowgraphy shapes to trigger lamp behaviors. Dynamic Soundscape Design: A nature-inspired audio system that produces organic "white noise" responding to user proximity and gestures. Interactive Motion Prototype: A physical object that uses light and movement to encourage users to slow down and participate in a biological narrative. Concept Sketches & Ideation: Documentation of the design journey from "animal symbolic triggers" to the final artificial flower form.
