10 Industrial design Spring 2022

Anxiety

Evocative luminance.

An evocative light installation designed to trigger unease and introspection, using shadows, depth, and color to externalize the sensation of stress.

Year

Spring 2022

Discipline

Industrial design

Role

Concept, sketch models, build, film

Materials

Wood, acrylic, colored light

Recognition

Third place, 2022 IESNYC Student Lighting Competition

As a student, there is always something or the other going on, be it workload or extracurricular events. Stress, anxiety, and chaos are what I feel sometimes when I think about the number of things on my mind every day. I created this lighting effect to evoke uneasiness and restlessness among viewers, for them to get a sense of what I feel when I am drenched with tasks on my to-do list. I wanted viewers to relate to these emotions and know that everyone goes through the same thing.

About the event

2022 IESNYC Student Lighting Competition: Reignited. This year's theme, Reignited, challenged students to create a lighting installation that served as a retrospective using three themes from past competitions. Since 2000, the IESNYC has invited students from New York City art and design schools to participate in a city-wide design competition. The competition empowers students to explore light as an art form, demonstrate light as a stimulus, and prove light as a valuable medium.

A total of 106 students from six schools collaborated on 88 projects. The schools that competed were Pratt, Parsons, NYSID, SVA, FIT, and NYIT. Pratt swept the competition this year. Anxiety placed third, with a $1000 prize.

Ideation

Explore light as an art form, demonstrate light as a stimulus, and prove light as a valuable medium. How can light be used to trigger an emotion or spark a memory?