Designed for Decimal. 2018.

Life Lamp represents a life cycle.

Three audio files were used in the programming of its generative design: The audio of a baby´s rapid heart beat while still in the womb, the heart beat of a 35-year-old and finally heart beat of an elder of 80 years old. These data were used as parameters in software that drew them as lines of varied width and branching, shaping the lamp.

Together, these are three overlapping volumes 3D printed. The smallest, most interior one was generated from the sound of a fetal heart, the intermediate was drawn from an adult and the outermost from an elderly person. Physically interconnected as a rhizome, these were used to generate a design that, in addition to illuminating an environment, also invites us to reflect on how to make this most of this short, pulsing life we have.

Life Lamp is an offshoot of the Guto Requena Studio´s research that seeks to unite affections and technologies in projects investigating the impact of digital culture through design.

Read our article published in ECAAD 2020: “Connecting Design and People Through Emotion”