Energy Aware Clock is an electricity meter that resembles an ordinary kitchen clock, which visualises the daily energy rhythms of the household and shows electrical utilisation of its environment 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 compare your energy use for several periods.
Project team: Loove Broms, Karin Ehrnberger, Sara Ilstedt Hjelm, Erika Lundell, Jin Moen

Aware Laundry Lamp is a combination of clothes drying rack and a lamp. Switching on the lamp helps in drying even faster as well as adding ambience to the room. The design comments on the fact that 95% of the electricity used in a traditional light bulb is transferred to heat, and only 5% to light. This encourages hang-drying as an alternative since tumble dryers are one of the greatest consumers of electricity at home.
Project team: Loove Broms, Karin Ehrnberger, Sara Ilstedt Hjelm, Erika Lundell, Jin Moen

Flower Lamp builds on an increasingly prevalent technology –remote energy metering– to visualise electricity used in the household as a whole. With a decrease in household electrical use, the Flower Lamp slowly opens up and appears to ‘bloom’. If energy consumption increases, the lamp closes into a more contracted form, which also affects the quality of light emitted. In order to make the Flower Lamp more beautiful, a collective change in behaviour is needed.
Project team: Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren, Katja Sävström, Göran Nordahl.

Energy Curtain is a window shade woven from a combination of textile, solar-collection and light-emitting materials. The curtain must be drawn shut to collect light, and the amount and duration that is drawn during the day determines how much light is collected for the night. Users must make a choice – whether to open the curtain and enjoy the daylight, or to close it and save energy for later.
Project team: Anders Ernevi, Margot Jacobs, Ramia Mazé, Carolin Müller, Johan Redström, Linda Worbin.

The Power Aware Cord visualises the energy of the current use of electricity of the appliances connected with it through glowing pulses, flow, and intensity of light. It may be used as a ‘tool’ to rediscover energy at home as well as an ambient ‘display’ to see energy consumption at a glance. For instance, the effects of changing the volume on the stereo becomes immediately and dramatically apparent –as do appliances that are silently stealing electricity while on standby.
Project team: Anton Gustafsson, Magnus Gyllenswärd, Sara Ilstedt Hjelm, Christina Öhman. In collaboration with ThinLight AB.

The Spirit of High Voltage: Looking at the ubiquity of the power line, covering both the rural and the urban, the cultivated and the wild in Sweden, artist Nils Edvardsson began to regard these lines as an enormous string instrument and he set himself the task of recording the sounds that these lines produce in the transmissions and connections of this flow across the land. The result is a dynamic score where sounds of electricity, wind and the environment constitute the orchestra.
Project team: Nils Edwardsson (artist), Fredrik Norrgren (sound engineer)

Mezzo: Artists Steven Dixon and Tore Nilsson explore a large number of images they associate with energy. On 24 small monitors images flicker, pause, return, creating an open fabric of the meanings of energy from the beginnings of the ideas of amber and static electricity to the electro-magnetic pulse of the earth. When you approach, audio is becoming louder and stronger. The kinetic energy of the viewer is translated into the power and clarity that the sounds are given.
Project team: Steven Dixon (artist), Tore Nilsson (artist), Patrik Axelsson and Gunnar Camner from Physical Interaction Lab (engineers)

Like there was no tomorrow: Four plexiglas modules, artificial plants and a sun. Together they create an oasis where a small, pulsing activity can be discerned. The more carbon dioxide in the room the more activity –the plants grow and the light is more intense. The installation follows this cycle, from sunrise to sunset, to the tones of Lou Reed’s Perfect Day. Finnäs reminds us that this is a fragile beauty. The Earth is a resource we borrow but also rapidly consume.
Project team: Tina Finnäs (artist), Erik Sjödin (engineer), Henrik Berggren and Rouzbeh Delavari from Physical Interaction Lab (engineers). In collaboration with Johan Strandahl, Klajdi Shoshi, ELFA and SenseAir.