You might have heard of or seen this as it's been created a few years ago by
Studio Drift but I've just discovered it last weekend at the Victoria & Albert Museum during the London design festival and found it amazing (I first misread they had used dandelion seeds and understood they grew them from inside the lamp but in fact they have glued real dandelion heads on lamps, still an amazing result though) so I can justify my first post in this thread now!
With Fragile Future III, Studio Drift fuses nature and technology into a multidisciplinary light sculpture. It consists of three-dimensional bronze electrical circuits connected to light emitting dandelions. The project can be seen as a critical yet utopian vision on the future of our planet, where two seemingly opposite evolutions have made a pact to survive.
The sculpture contains real dandelion seeds, that were picked by hand and seed-by-seed connected to a LED light. This labour-intensive process is a clear statement against mass production and throwaway culture. Are the rapid technological developments of our age really more advanced than the evolution of nature, of which the dandelion is such a transient and symbolic example? And could those two evolve together and meet in the future? Studio Drift proposes a vision of that future in their own signature aesthetics, a distinct mix between hi-tech and poetic imagery. Light functions as a symbolic and emotional ingredient rather as a tool to simply illuminate the dark. Fragile Future III is about conveying emotion and at the same time refers to the fact that light lies at the basis of all life. Every sculpture is uniquely designed to organically adapt to its specific context. Lonneke Gordijn created the first series in 2005 as graduation project.
Fragile Future III is a modulair work. One bronze module is a visible circuit with 3 dandelights. A module can be attached to the next one (in unlimited different ways), meanwhile the power will always continue correctly through the installation.
Edit: haha just found out you can actually buy one for your own homely pleasure!
slightly smaller though