Intention

My intentions with this project were to examine "spooky" technology in a more subtle and/or hidden context. The idea is to give an everyday item (the lamp) agency, but also a pretty exterior (the flower housing) and an innocent front of helping with productivity. My goal was to make it the product a mom would deem innocent and helpful enough to buy for her child struggling to focus. I wanted the product to slowly reveal its hidden blade: that in using this device, the user's location data is being taken and used against them. The lamp, although limited in its wrath, is almost forcing the user to stay in place and work.

To be honest, my personal motivation and the idea itself came from my love of just designing beautiful things, and creating and experience out of having them. But I also loved the idea of the "spookiness" or unsettling feeling coming from using the product over time, and realizing that it has some level of control over the user's actions that the user might never have planned to give.