SunShower Light Therapy Design

SunShower Light Therapy Design by Kitae Kim from usa

designer's own words:

In 2013, researchers from the Mayo Clinic reported that nearly 70 percent of Americans were on at least one prescription drug with 13 percent of Americans on antidepressants. Light is an essential part of human life and it affects the body like a drug does, influencing our mood and happiness with its quality whether it comes from the searing blue light from phone screens or from the pale fluorescents overhead. The SunShower Light aims to utilize LEDs to combat SAD, (Seasonal Affective Disorder) a depression that occurs during the Winter when people are not exposed to enough sunlight disrupting sleep, focus, and most of all happiness. The SunShower seeks to question the traditional mode of activation via switch by instead lighting up when the pod is inserted into its stand, glowing white when inserted upright to treat SAD, and then turning red, mimicking dusk, when inserted upside down to boost melatonin production helping users sleep. It treats the activation of light as a ritual, a connection of mind, body and nature by the deliberate placing of the lightpod into its base to foster a respect for the illumination we expose ourselves to and the effect it has on our wellbeing.

SunShower Light Therapy Design uses LED technology to combat depression and boost happiness without the side effects of antidepressants
SunShower Light Therapy Design
Night mode uses red light to boost melatonin production and help users sleep contrary to the blue light of phones and computers that suppress melatonin production
SunShower Light Therapy Design
Night mode is activated by placing the lightpod into its base upside down, symbolizing a turning to the end of the day and casting a red glow coded to the rgb values of a red dusk
SunShower Light Therapy Design
SunShower detail, stone + glass + light
SunShower Light Therapy Design
Day Mode is activated by placing the lightpod into its base right side up, casting a bright glow that replenishes vitamin D during the dark winter months to boost happiness and increase energy levels
SunShower Light Therapy Design
When detached from its base the lightpod lays dormant, requiring a deliberate human touch/placement to be activated