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LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL SPECIAL REPORT
Spine-tingling SPINE is an interactive light installation, drawing a parallel between our own physiology and the technological environment in which we live.
Electricity carries and translates human intent into action‌ both around us and within us. Externally, it fuels an extensive network of manmade lighting that unbinds our activity to all hours of the day. Internally, it generates synapses through our spinal neural network that bring our thoughts into action and translates them into movement. To celebrate the launch of the 002 LED lamp, Plumen teamed up with Studio Ini to create an interactive light installation SPINE. Located on the Stamp Staircase of Somerset House as part of London Design Festival, this interactive light installation draws parallels between our own physiology and the technological environment in which we live. Electricity is an inherent part of our anatomy as human beings. Neurons encode information with electrical signals and transmit that information through synapses across our spinal cord. The electrical signal involves a voltage change of many tens of millivolts travelling at 268 miles per hour through our neural pathways. In this way, motor neurons located in the spinal cord carry signals from the brain to the muscles to produce movement. In this interactive experience visitors are invited to discover a new way of perceiving electricity and its consumption. www.plumen.com