Memo, a life calendar light, is encouraging people have an open discussion about planning for death.
People are afraid of the unknown, they will question about where will they go after they die. Death is an instant thing but preparing for it is a long thing because people are born dead. Getting people to talk about their plans for death should begin by removing their fears and stereotypes of death. From a scientific point of view, people are mortal. Everyone has a limited lifespan. As your organs slowly begin to fail, you are getting closer and closer to death. I think people should maximize their value in the limited time of their lives. Don't worry about things that haven't happened yet, live in the present.
Oppotunities
Cherish
Design a way could take your family or loved ones into your life.
Create a new space to store people’s memories and wishes for family or self.
Responsibility
Design a way to make people feel comfort, have some “interact” with died people.
Inherited
Create a way help children learn death better.
Faith
Create death a new meaning, reshape death to people.
Final Direction: Life Calendar Light
1. Celebrate death
- It is a final chapter of people’s life, it should be positive. Celebrate about life.
- Death can be memorable.
- Change the relationship between death and people.
2. People want to find a place for reflection
- Where can people find the memory with their parents or loved ones?
- Every individual can impact others around them.
3. Use different colors to represent different years.
4. Change the intensity of light for each year.
Final Ideation
Life calendar light can recompose by consumer self according to their home style and arrangement. Each color light equals one year, one single circle has 5 color on it. So the whole set of light represents 100 years which shows a person's entire life. Consumer can write their most impressive memories in last year and wishes fot next year, and put it in the little box inside of light, and turn on one color to represnet one year pasr.
