http://cargocollective.com Loove Broms Online Portfolio Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:32:56 +0000 http://cargocollective.com en http://cargocollective.com/loove/laminAir http://cargocollective.com/loove/following/loove/laminAir Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:32:56 +0000 Loove Broms Online Portfolio 3944038 laminAir consists of a group of five objects that respond to movements. When passing by a motion sensor is triggered, inflating plastic bags that alter the shape of the five elements. As soon as the movements stops so does the inflating and the shapes slowly return to their original state. A high surrounding activity gradually adds more air than what is leaked out making all the elements open up. With lesser activity more air is leaked out than is added and the five elements starts to close again. laminAir shapes the physical space as a reflection to ongoing activity. The installation was installed indoor behind the large display windows of the Film Base building in Dublin, Ireland. concept: Loove Broms and Killian Doherty <img src="http://payload82.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3944038/P6160046.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload82.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3944038/P6160046_o.JPG" data-mid="20607427" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload82.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3944038/P6180099.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload82.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3944038/P6180099_o.JPG" data-mid="20607450" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload82.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3944038/P6200023.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload82.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3944038/P6200023_o.JPG" data-mid="20607461" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload82.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3944038/P6220062.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1024" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload82.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3944038/P6220062_o.jpg" data-mid="20684706" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload82.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3944038/laminAir_drawingPart_6.png" width="670" height="500" width_o="1024" height_o="765" src_o="http://payload82.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3944038/laminAir_drawingPart_6_o.png" data-mid="20607816" border="0" align="left"/> laminAir consists of a group of five objects that respond to movements. When passing by a motion sensor is triggered, inflating plastic bags that alter the shape of... http://cargocollective.com/loove/Watt-lite-TWIST http://cargocollective.com/loove/following/loove/Watt-lite-TWIST Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:44:13 +0000 Loove Broms Online Portfolio 3082926 (Modern products) ...are too smart and precise, removing all possible surprise, mystery and, perhaps above all, the process of engaging with them J Chapman We need to find new ways of engaging people in potential serious issues by rethinking how values are embodied in products, since they influence beliefs as well as behaviours. We see new possibilities of creating richer and innovative experiences interrelated to electricity, but there might need to be a shift in how we appoint meaning to the objects surrounding us. The Watt-lite (twist) have the exterior shape of an over dimensioned torch and mimics the functionality of an egg timer. An egg timer is a device whose primary function is to measure a set amount of time but rather than measuring time, the Watt-lite is a tool for measuring set amount of energy (kWh). The engraved minute marks on an egg timer is here replaced with engraved kWh marks. By using the significant shape of a torch we want to give a hint of seeing the object as an explorative device, a detectives tool that can show what might otherwise be hidden. A regular torch highlights what is hidden in the dark, the Watt-lites highlights the hidden use of electricity. The user twists the front of the watt-lite:twist and a light beam projects a full pie chart, showing for example 10kWh. Pieces of the piechart disseapers when electricity is used in the home. Finally, when the chosen amount of kWh have been used the light beam vanish completely leaving only an empty circle. When the user has chosen their desired amount of energy they can switch view to see how the electricity have been used. To do this they slide a button that inverts the projection. This state visualizes what the chosen amount of energy have been used for utilizing individual sensors. To differentiate each sensor/device from each other they are given a colour of its own in the chart. design: Loove Broms and Li Jönsson context: inCharge project, Interactive Institute, Energy Design project team: Loove Broms, Therese Balksjö, Li Jönsson, Cecilia Katzeff, Emma Samsioe, Kristoffer Sjökvist, Carin Torstensson and Ulrika Westholm homepage: www.tii.se/projects/incharge <img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3082926/PC102305.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3082926/PC102305_o.JPG" data-mid="15733862" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3082926/WLT.jpg" width="670" height="439" width_o="1600" height_o="1050" src_o="http://payload39.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/3082926/WLT_o.jpg" data-mid="15791717" border="0" align="left"/> (Modern products) ...are too smart and precise, removing all possible surprise, mystery and, perhaps above all, the process of engaging with them J Chapman We need... http://cargocollective.com/loove/Colour-by-Numbers-Seville http://cargocollective.com/loove/following/loove/Colour-by-Numbers-Seville Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:18:03 +0000 Loove Broms Online Portfolio 2966363 Colour by Numbers is a permanent light installation in the tower at Telefonplan in Stockholm, Sweden. Everyone can change the colours in the tower with their mobile phone, just like with a remote control. The lightinstallation was first inaugurated at Telefonplan October 23 2006. The permanent installation was inaugurated January 14 2011. The work was also installed in the Perdigones Tower in Seville, Spain, in the Seville Biennial, October 2 2008. The project has attracted both Swedish and international media attention, for example in the Swedish National Television art program Arty, an interview in the Swedish National Radio P1 program Ting, three articles in the major Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, articles in Aftonbladet, Creative Review, Metropolis Magazine, Dpi Magazine, Paletten, and Architectural Design, in around a hundred blogs, and on CityTV Canada, Swedish TV8 and Swedish National Television's Kunskapskanalen. Colour by Numbers has featured in several literary works, such as Arne Dahl's crime novel Himmelsöga (2007) and Jenny Jägerfeld's youth novel Här ligger jag och blöder (2010). Also, the PhD student Linda Ryan Bengtsson has included the project in her doctoral thesis in Media and Communication Studies, and discusses it in a chapter of the book Mediasamhället: centrala begrepp (2009). By (in alphabetical order): Loove Broms, Erik Krikortz and Milo Lavén Project website: www.colourbynumbers.org <img src="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2966363/P1030216.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2966363/P1030216_o.JPG" data-mid="15104072" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2966363/P1030208.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2966363/P1030208_o.JPG" data-mid="15103873" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2966363/DSC_0708_2 2.jpg" width="670" height="443" width_o="2048" height_o="1356" src_o="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2966363/DSC_0708_2 2_o.jpg" data-mid="15103904" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2966363/P1030077.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1728" height_o="1296" src_o="http://payload33.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2966363/P1030077_o.jpg" data-mid="15103868" border="0" align="left"/> Colour by Numbers is a permanent light installation in the tower at Telefonplan in Stockholm, Sweden. Everyone can change the colours in the tower with their mobile... http://cargocollective.com/loove/Share-AWARE-Light http://cargocollective.com/loove/following/loove/Share-AWARE-Light Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:22:24 +0000 Loove Broms Online Portfolio 2840183 The Share AWARE Light is a series of portable, radio controlled light sources that share a fixed amount of light. For example, when one lamp is made brighter, the others lamps are proportionately dimmed by an equal amount. AWARE was a design oriented research project that aimed at increasing people's awareness of how energy is being used in everyday life, especially in our home environment. The objectives where to develop strategies and artefacts that make people attentive of their energy use, as well as offer them control and possibilities of making their energy use more efficient. design: Loove Broms and Karin Ehrnberger context: AWARE project, Interactive Institute, Energy Design project team: Loove Broms, Karin Ehrnberger, Sara Illstedt Hjelm, Erika Lundell and Jin Moen homepage: www.tii.se/aware <img src="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2840183/ShareAwareLight.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1363" src_o="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2840183/ShareAwareLight_o.jpg" data-mid="14431422" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2840183/shareAWARELight_technology.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2840183/shareAWARELight_technology_o.jpg" data-mid="14431419" border="0" align="left"/> The Share AWARE Light is a series of portable, radio controlled light sources that share a fixed amount of light. For example, when one lamp is made brighter, the... http://cargocollective.com/loove/Watt-lite http://cargocollective.com/loove/following/loove/Watt-lite Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:49:51 +0000 Loove Broms Online Portfolio 2839981 The Watt-lite is delivered as a set of three and have the exterior shape of an over dimensioned torch. The size of the light beam projected from the torches indicates the company's electricity consumption and expands and contracts depending on the electricity usage at the industry. The dark grey Watt-lite is a real-time electricity meter. If the light beam is small, the electricity consumption at the industry is low, if the light beam is large the electricity consumption is high. The two light grey Watt-lites are used as reference points displaying maximum and minimum electricity usage during the day. The Watt-lite projecting a blue light beam displays the smallest amount of electricity used during the day. The orange light beam displays the highest amount of electricity used during the day. design: Loove Broms and Li Jönsson context: Industry Wise project, Interactive Institute, Energy Design project team: Jonas Andersson, Loove Broms, Li Jönsson, Cecilia Katzeff, Carin Torstensson and Sara Tunheden link: www.tii.se/projects/industrywise <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2839981/watt-lite_laying.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2839981/watt-lite_laying_o.jpg" data-mid="14430161" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2839981/watt-lite_hanging.jpg" width="670" height="1004" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2839981/watt-lite_hanging_o.jpg" data-mid="14430158" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2839981/watt-lite_opened.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2839981/watt-lite_opened_o.jpg" data-mid="14430166" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2839981/watt-lite_projection.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2839981/watt-lite_projection_o.jpg" data-mid="14430168" border="0" align="left"/> The Watt-lite is delivered as a set of three and have the exterior shape of an over dimensioned torch. The size of the light beam projected from the torches... http://cargocollective.com/loove/AWARE-Handle http://cargocollective.com/loove/following/loove/AWARE-Handle Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:20:44 +0000 Loove Broms Online Portfolio 2839838 AWARE Handle is a radiator handle that makes it more comfortable for the hand to lower the temperature than to increase it. It also visualizes the current state of the handle with help of info-graphics that does not only use the traditional numbers (1-4) but icons angled towards informing about different consequences resulting from the different states of the handle. AWARE was a design oriented research project that aimed at increasing people's awareness of how energy is being used in everyday life, especially in our home environment. The objectives where to develop strategies and artefacts that make people attentive of their energy use, as well as offer them control and possibilities of making their energy use more efficient. design: Loove Broms and Karin Ehrnberger context: AWARE project, Interactive Institute, Energy Design project team: Loove Broms, Karin Ehrnberger, Sara Illstedt Hjelm, Erika Lundell and Jin Moen homepage: www.tii.se/aware <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2839838/AWAREhandle01.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2839838/AWAREhandle01_o.jpg" data-mid="14429357" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2839838/AWAREhandle02.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2839838/AWAREhandle02_o.jpg" data-mid="14429371" border="0" align="left"/> AWARE Handle is a radiator handle that makes it more comfortable for the hand to lower the temperature than to increase it. It also visualizes the current state of... http://cargocollective.com/loove/Energy-AWARE-Clock http://cargocollective.com/loove/following/loove/Energy-AWARE-Clock Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:01:03 +0000 Loove Broms Online Portfolio 2838804 Energy AWARE Clock is an electricity meter that resembles an ordinary kitchen clock. It is designed to make energy awareness a part of everyday life. The clock visualizes the daily energy rhythms of the household and reminds of the ordinary kitchen clock, both in form, place and use. Take a glance at your Energy AWARE Clock – in the same way you glance at the clock every now and then – and be enlightened. Energy AWARE Clock shows the electricity consumption in real time. If the dishwasher is switched on it shows immediately on the display of the unit. Yesterday’s graphs fade away slowly and today’s consumption is drawn on top of previous days, making it possible to survey the energy consumption for several periods. The Energy AWARE Clock is available as a comercial product called simply Aware Clock! AWARE was a design oriented research project that aimed at increasing people's awareness of how energy is being used in everyday life, especially in our home environment. The objectives where to develop strategies and artefacts that make people attentive of their energy use, as well as offer them control and possibilities of making their energy use more efficient. design: Loove Broms and Karin Ehrnberger context: AWARE project, Interactive Institute, Energy Design project team: Loove Broms, Karin Ehrnberger, Sara Illstedt Hjelm, Erika Lundell and Jin Moen homepage: www.tii.se/aware <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838804/energyawareclock3-2.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838804/energyawareclock3-2_o.jpg" data-mid="14423700" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838804/EnergyAWAREclockOnTable-2.jpg" width="670" height="922" width_o="1816" height_o="2500" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838804/EnergyAWAREclockOnTable-2_o.jpg" data-mid="14423701" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838804/Energy_Aware_Clock_4_Photo_by_ Per_Erik_Adamsson-2.jpg" width="670" height="668" width_o="2048" height_o="2043" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838804/Energy_Aware_Clock_4_Photo_by_ Per_Erik_Adamsson-2_o.jpg" data-mid="14423698" border="0" align="left"/> Energy AWARE Clock is an electricity meter that resembles an ordinary kitchen clock. It is designed to make energy awareness a part of everyday life. The clock... http://cargocollective.com/loove/Energy-Plant http://cargocollective.com/loove/following/loove/Energy-Plant Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:48:06 +0000 Loove Broms Online Portfolio 2838757 The Energy Plant is an ambient transparent LCD-display that shows the electricity consumption of the household in the form of a growing plant. The device is connected wirelessly to the domestic electricity meter. Each month, a new type of digital seed is “planted” and starts to grow on the screen. Modest electricity consumption result in a thriving fast growing plant and heavy consumption makes the plant wither and this is shown on the transparent screen. The idea is that the display can be placed in a window like an ordinary plant or elsewhere. The inspiration for the design was taken from two existing lifestyles; gardening - the fascination of making real plants grow, and the gaming lifestyle where one, for example, is trying to enhance online characters in a game. Taking care of the Energy Plant means thinking about your electricity consumption while enjoying the reward to see the plant grow. The Energy Plant is an attempt to break away from the traditional screen-based type of interaction in the context of energy metering – it is an ambient display that provides information with little effort from the user. A quick glance at it should be enough to tell if the home-consumption is low or high and it should also give a hint on consumption figures previous days. design: Loove Broms and Marie-Lousie Gustafsson context: DESME project, Muova & Interactive Institute, Energy Design project team: Loove Broms, Magnus Bång, Marie-Lousie Gustafsson, Jonathan Maltz and Christina Öhman homepage: www.tii.se/energydesign <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/003.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/003_o.jpg" data-mid="14423384" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/004.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/004_o.jpg" data-mid="14423386" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/006.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/006_o.jpg" data-mid="14423389" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/008.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/008_o.jpg" data-mid="14423396" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/009.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/009_o.jpg" data-mid="14423399" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/011.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/011_o.jpg" data-mid="14423411" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/23.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/23_o.jpg" data-mid="14423418" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/012.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838757/012_o.jpg" data-mid="14423414" border="0" align="left"/> The Energy Plant is an ambient transparent LCD-display that shows the electricity consumption of the household in the form of a growing plant. The device is... http://cargocollective.com/loove/AWARE-Puzzle-Switch http://cargocollective.com/loove/following/loove/AWARE-Puzzle-Switch Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:25:04 +0000 Loove Broms Online Portfolio 2838677 The AWARE Puzzle Switch is an on/off button designed in order to encourage people to turn off energy consuming products, by playing with people’s built-in desire for order. AWARE was a design oriented research project that aimed at increasing people's awareness of how energy is being used in everyday life, especially in our home environment. The objectives where to develop strategies and artefacts that make people attentive of their energy use, as well as offer them control and possibilities of making their energy use more efficient. design: Loove Broms and Karin Ehrnberger context: AWARE project, Interactive Institute, Energy Design project team: Loove Broms, Karin Ehrnberger, Sara Illstedt Hjelm, Erika Lundell and Jin Moen homepage: www.tii.se/aware <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838677/Puzzle Switch.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838677/Puzzle Switch_o.jpg" data-mid="14423122" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838677/hand-and-puzzle-switch.jpg" width="670" height="473" width_o="686" height_o="485" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838677/hand-and-puzzle-switch_o.jpg" data-mid="14423117" border="0" align="left"/> The AWARE Puzzle Switch is an on/off button designed in order to encourage people to turn off energy consuming products, by playing with people’s built-in desire... http://cargocollective.com/loove/Sustainable-Interactions http://cargocollective.com/loove/following/loove/Sustainable-Interactions Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:06:38 +0000 Loove Broms Online Portfolio 2838580 This thesis presents a collection of experimental designs that approach the problem of growing electricity consumption in homes. From the perspective of design, the intention has been to critically explore the design space of energy awareness artefacts to reinstate awareness of energy use in everyday practice. The design experiments were used as vehicles for thinking about the relationship between physical form, interaction, and social practice. The rationale behind the concepts was based on a small-scale ethnography, situated interviews, and design experience. Moreover, the thesis compares designer intention and actual user experiences of a prototype that was installed in nine homes in a residential area in Stockholm for three months. This was done in order to elicit tacit knowledge about how the concept was used in realworld domestic settings, to challenge everyday routines, and to enable both users and designers to critically reflect on artefacts and practices. author: Loove Broms title: Sustainable Interactions - Studies in the Design of Energy Awareness Artefacts context: Licentiate thesis in philosophy link: liu.diva-portal.org <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838580/sustainableInteractions.jpg" width="670" height="478" width_o="1680" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/6/200676/2838580/sustainableInteractions_o.jpg" data-mid="14422403" border="0" align="left"/> This thesis presents a collection of experimental designs that approach the problem of growing electricity consumption in homes. From the perspective of design, the...