Cocoon

Long description

Cocoon is a decorative light pendant celebrating an innovative way to reduce timber waste through rethinking how to design it out.

As an initiative, Cocoon educates its end user to sustainable technologies and thinking about how to apply them in new ways. A small example of how we can turn timber waste into a new product – Cocoon creates a feature pendant that is made better and designed to last. It asks us to rethink the timber industry – from the deforestation process through to the take and make production. In turn having an impact on the biodiversity of our forests that is becoming lost due to climate change and deforestation.

Cocoon is also earth centric in its’ design. The sculptural form is made of a 3d printed sawdust shell that acts as a protective covering to embrace and hide all technology of the light within. At its core, it holds an easy on the eyes, easy on the Earth integrated OLED light panel that shines and protrudes through its slit-like openings.

Beyond the material research and process, we aim to develop a product that is not only eco-friendly but fully degradable – such that if it breaks, it can be sent back to our manufacturers where the shell will be ground up and reused in a new light production. This allows Cocoon to avoid its materials ending up back in a landfill – and brings our narrative full circle with the HagenHinderdael ethos of a continuous afterlife.

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