Designers:
Slow Things
The Department of Design at Monash University’s Art, Design & Architecture (MADA) comprises a team of wide-ranging creative practitioners aiming for positive change through meaningful, impactful design.
Slow Things, a transdisciplinary creative practice initiated by Chuan Khoo, Lecturer at MADA, advocates for the design of aesthetically inspiring, connected physical products as reflective, liminal interfaces with our digital world. Through independent and collaborative modes of making, we build and take on multi-sensorial, object and spatially-aware briefs to explore slowness, by reimagining and repurposing digital and electronic technologies.
Project: Lumogram
The Lumogram is an open-source, interactive, backlit diorama pendant, made with environmentally-mindful materials (wood and paper) and bespoke, re-usable touch-activated electronic lighting.
As the tangible component of an educational discovery workshop for young participants (16+), the goal is to demonstrate design through technology (touch-sensitive optics) and creative ideation (backlit dioramas). The cutout design’s flexibility also enables engaging with wider communities to craft customised thematic narratives with the help of templates. The backlit cutout designs enable a multitude of combinations to suit any theme.
The Lumogram’s design also minimises material loss by utilising waste offcuts as ‘accessories’ for the pendant.
Category: Use
Designers and Project Team:
Dr Chuan Khoo, Lecturer, Monash University, founder of Slow Things
Ed Turner – MADA Digital Fabrication Workshop
Gusti Wigneshwara, Design intern (Industrial Design)
Manaporn Tanwimonrat, Design intern (Graphic Design)