How It Works.1 - The collapsible lampshade reacts to the movement of pulling the switch, which means to be consistent with people’s status of being awake and asleep, giving the person a sense of the cycling of life.
How It Works.2 - The two pieces of wood come from one whole piece. One can be filled into the other completely. This not only facilitate the activity of reading, but also re act the change of people’s status: being active and being quiet and static.
Conceptual Development
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A Bedside Lamp
Bedside lamp, instead of being just a functional object, has more symbolic meaning. The everyday ritual of turning off the lamp and then go to sleep articulates the cycling behavior of a person’s day.
Further more, the ritual of reading before sleeping is always followed by this moment of going to sleep. Combining these two rituals through the bedside lamp is both functionally and symbolically meaningful. The beauty of the lamp will be ampli ed when people spend more time on it.