Firefly | 2005 | Team: Shruti KNR, Mahendra Chauhan
Empowering children in rural villages.
These lamps are highly inefficient, consume lot of kerosene and have very low luminance value, resulting to children opting out of studying.
CONTEXT
As rural lifestyle involves many activities in the day, only time when a kid gets to study is in the night. In the present context majority of rural lighting solutions are ‘non electrical kerosine lamps’.
CONCEPT DIRECTION
The solution, is to have a ‘play-value’, mass manufacturability and be highly energy efficient.
This gives rise to a new design opportunity for creating an
innovative, cost-effective, playful lighting solution which will facilitate rural kids to read and write.
Plastic panel gets charged in sun light and provides consistent glow for 4-7 hours. Plastic panel has a clip-on mechanism for easy attachment and detachment of the pages.
CONCEPT
As darkness approaches plastic panel starts glowing. This panel has to be placed below the page to facilitate night time reading of books.
DETAILS
A night glow plastic panel which serves as writing base as well as luminescent that can be retained in the dark.
