Softlight: Inflated Company
KEYWORDS
light
CONTEXTBurg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
SUPPORTED BY
EXHIBITION
︎︎︎ Globana Airport Hotel, Schkeudiz
CONCEPT, DESIGN, PROTOTYPE
PHOTOGRAPHY
ARGE Lola
YEAR
light
tactility
loneliness
mobility
intimacy
CONTEXT
Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
SUPPORTED BY
Globana Airport Hotel
EXHIBITION
︎︎︎ Globana Airport Hotel, Schkeudiz
︎︎︎ Burg Giebichenstein, Halle (Saale), Year Show
CONCEPT, DESIGN, PROTOTYPE
Miriam Reihl
PHOTOGRAPHY
ARGE Lola
Miriam Reihl
YEAR
2018
Softlight is a product designed for a business hotel context that challenges the sterile aesthetics of standardised comfort by reintroducing intimacy and emotional resonance. It addresses loneliness as a common experience among business travellers who spend long periods away from home, their belongings, and their loved ones.
Filled with air, Softlight unfolds to a human scale, providing light and a sense of companionship in the darkness of solitude. Soft and yielding, almost like a cushion, its poetic gesture encourages touch and interaction. It can be hung or taken down, moved, held, or leaned against — a mobile presence within an otherwise fixed environment.
Filled with air, Softlight unfolds to a human scale, providing light and a sense of companionship in the darkness of solitude. Soft and yielding, almost like a cushion, its poetic gesture encourages touch and interaction. It can be hung or taken down, moved, held, or leaned against — a mobile presence within an otherwise fixed environment.
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