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A Touch of Shelgem Interiors

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our intensions is to create our design within a dark space such as , subways, tunnels, rooms anywhere that feels too dark or uncomfortable inside or outdoors. spaces where sunlight cant reach through to! creating something that uses solar energy in order to make people feel more safe would be a great invention ,responding to the reactions of the mimosa plant.

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is this outside or a wall piece, the 3d look with the panels creates a unique feel, being 3d and 2d, this also adds lightness and a nature feel to a room bringing in the colours reflected by the sun, this is great to lighten up a dark space!!

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a beautiful saying of biomimicry with nature, great for our theme and expresses the beauty of it

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A glow in the dark table ?? the lords prayer!!

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this piece is beautiful and really links well to our ideas, the blind effect and the movement of them opening with senses adds a more realistic approach and flows smoothly. The mimosa plant reacts in a similar way with the soft movements.

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this outdoor piece has a look of a blind and shows the same sort of movement , this is interactive for the public and changes with wind pressure or the touch of a hand. this also changes the atmosphere bringing colour to the area or a natural wood effect.

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this is a beautiful indoor nature installation allowing light to come through inbetween the gaps of the leaves, as the sun moves and wind increase the lighting will change with different shadows , brightness and effect. the reflection of the sun against the leaves shows a green tint to the walls inside giving a more nature feel.

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Crassula umbella.

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Japanese designers are attempting to make smart fabric that knows how your feeling and senses your emotions and surroundings to then post on social media sights what you are up to. 

 Savov, Vlad. 'Japanese Researchers Weave Capacitive Touch Into Large-Area Textiles, Want To Make Them Wearable (Video)'. Engadget. N.p., 2015. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.

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“Researchers at the Polytechnic School in Montreal, Canada, have developed a soft polymer-based fiber with electrical properties that can be woven into fabric”

"In essence we are trying to reproduce the smartphone experience in textile form," says researcher Maksim Skorobogatiy of the Polytechnic School in Montreal, Canada. "We are looking for applications where we can weave in sleek, non-invasive control, avoiding blocks of push buttons."

Newscientist.com,. 'Stroke Your Car Seat To Pump Up The Volume - Tech - 09 January 2012 - New Scientist'. N.p., 2015. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.

Yvkoff, Liane. 'BMW To Use Touch-Sensitive Smart Fabric In Cars - CNET'. CNET. N.p., 2012. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.

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Montreal-based designer Ying Gao has created this futuristic dress which responds to people gaze, when looked at it glows and moves almost like a jelly fish underwater. 

She uses eye tracking technology buried within the fabric  to activate the light weight  super organza she has used. She has sewn with “photoluminescent thread and contain tiny eye-tracking electronic devices, the fibers have small motors sewn into them that can move parts of the dress and make them change shape.”

Mail Online,. 'The Dress That Moves When You Look At It: Hi-Tech Glow-In-The-Dark Outfit Made From The World's Lightest Fabric Responds To People's Gaze'. N.p., 2013. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.

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Solar panels can be used for a number of things, we have them at home to provide us with hot water, they can also be used for lighting. 

Solar power cells convert sunlight into electricity, using the energy of speeding photons to create an electrical current within a solar panel.

“Photons are created in the center of the sun by the fusion of atoms. It takes a photon about a million years to work its way to the surface of the sun, but once free it is hurled through space so fast that it reaches earth in just eight minutes - after traveling 93 million miles.”

Solar energy is the greenest way to use electricity as its basically a form of recycling. However our issue is that you need sunlight in order to create it and how can we do that when looking at spaces that are dark? 

Could we have a solar panel further away that links to the light in our dark space? for example, a tunnel needs lighting but its light outside, could the panels exists outside the tunnel but still create enough power to use the energy inside the tunnel? 

Solartechnologies.com,. 'How Does Solar Power Work?'. N.p., 2015. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.

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Solar energy is radiant energy emitted by the sun, helping enhance sustainability, reduce pollution and lowering costs of mitigating global warming

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Green design & eco innovation for a better world this website has lots of interesting updates of biomimicry and whats happening and ideas people are having within this subject. This made us become aware of the type of creations that can be made for different matters.