(Archive) Kipinä - a Spark

Kipinä - Lighting collection celebrates primitive ways of making and controlling fire and how those interactions can be brought into modern lighting.

This project was part of DDW 2019

Candle works as a switch and as a timer. — © Riku Toivonen

Kipinä, meaning a spark in Finnish, explores primitive and historical ways of making and controlling fire and how those methods and interactions can be brought into modern lighting. Through these experiments I am exploring the controlling of light through unusual but intuitive and playful ways.

Fire has played a big role in my life. I’ve spent most of my summers on a small island in an ascetic Finnish summer house with no modern comforts such as electricity or running water. Fire for me means a source of light. Today, when everything wo

A Spark will activate the light.

Hand Drill simulates primitive ways of making fire

Match: a wall switch for controlling general light

Candle works as a switch and as a timer.

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