The Little Sun project was initiated by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen in 2012. Little Sun is a solar-powered LED lamp designed to provide light in a sustainable way to communities without electricity, and is also a project that aims to create local job opportunities and generate local profit. Every Little Sun that is sold in an area of the world that has access to electricity, enable the lamp to be sold at a locally affordable price in an off-grid African community. A lot of thought has been put into both aesthetic and sustainable concerns in the production of the lamp. The project can be seen as an extension of Eliasson's installation The Weather Project, where he constructed a giant, artificial sun at Tate Modern in London in 2003.
Sunniva H. Stokken
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On a global scale, honeybees feed more than 7 billion people by pollinating crops around the world, and are thus crucial to food production. Over the past few years we have experienced a drastic decline in the world's bee population. In Norway, one third of the species are in threat of extinction and twelve of them are already lost. This has led to local design initiatives focusing on preservation of bees and their environments, also in urban locations.
(http://www.alternet.org/environment/honeybees-are-facing-global-threat-and-if-they-go-so-do-we)
Entering the room of Beauty is a wondrous experience. The room has a quietness to it, it is a serene and calm environment and the only sound comes from the barely audible water falling too the floor. The walls are pitch black and in the centre of the room is a light source and a curtain of fine rain.