THE CHALLENGE: Design a light & sound wise object  that could convey the idea of descovering nature inside your own home.

THE CONTEXT: FANGAI was created for the Multimedia Design Section of the 2016 edition of Romanian Design Week. It was presented as an interactive light & sound installation in partnership with Sengled Europe. 

THE IDEA: FANGAI is an object designed for the homonymous interactive installation. It is structured as a light&sound experience. It's a light fixture with a pentagonal mushroom shape, designed for a Sengled product ( an interactive wireless audio speaker incorporated in a light bulb).

The installation consisted of 12 mushrooms, each of them generating light and sounds. The soundscape was designed as an augmented interpretation of how the mushrooms' gills would sound if that could be possible to be perceived by the human ear. All the sounds are processed audio recordings of real objects that can produce repetitive sounds, like shuffled books, colanders, ventilators, griddles, etc. All the sounds are triggered by the visitors moving inside the installation. Every mushroom has multiple sounds played randomly, in order to create each time a new dynamic and organic soundscape. 

The light&sound pendant is a statement on how the new generations of daily objects can give birth to experiential languages.