Supersymmetry is a smart, sophisticated lighting fixture that allows the user to toggle between work and rest with a simple move and magnetic click. It is designed to transform from a vertical source of soft diffused light to a horizontal source of concentrated functional light for work, creation, and close communication. The viability of a home-centred life approach, as a supersymmetry in and of itself, needs to be tested experimentally in a post-pandemic world. The mission is to develop lighting solutions that can guide people through it, as well as finely detailed appliances that can help with zoning and adaptability of living spaces to accommodate various scenarios.

The year of 2020 brought us through incredible transformations which affected our social and personal spheres of lives. People had to reinvent their lifestyles, habits, approaches to work and recreational space. Two most significant fields of professional and private appeared at the edge of brutal collision within the most casual homes and apartments. Pursuit of humane and profound solution for this problem lead us to find an inspiration in one of the most elegant concepts of modern partial physics – supersymmetry. It explains conjectured relationship between two basic classes of elementary particles by showing how they can bound together into superpartners, evolve into each other and split backwards to their cores. As substance can transform into matter, our most tender and intimate living spaces can be transformed into perfect working areas by a glimpse of light. This idea leaded us to designing a smart classy lightning fixture which can help people to switch between their life essences by simple move and magnetic click. As a supersymmetry itself, sustainability of home-centered life approach needs to be proved experimentally in post-pandemic world. We see our mission in developing lighting solutions that can guide people through it.

The fixture is designed in a very specific unique way, which allows to transform it from general vertical source of soft diffused light to the specific horizontal source of concentrated functional light for work, creation and close communication. Thoroughly engineered construction with magnetic elements and bottom-centered wire bracing system enables to provide stable height level of the fixture for both horizontal and vertical configurations. It helps to keep the lamp close to the table and maintain equal illumination level on the table surface along with comfortable face and body backlight.

Lighting fixture transformation is operated by a simple user’s move of splitting or joining together symmetrical parts of the lamp in order to reach the required illumination effect.  Kinetic effect provided by construction and enchased by magnetic elements provides deep tactile emotional rebound and experience the sense of interaction with high-end technology. It helps to expand the perception of the lamp as an interior complement to the image of a solid hi-tech object.

The key designing challenge was developing the solution for stable height level of the lamp through several configurations, (comparing to classic solution which would lead to height fluctuation of at least 450 mm), which provided the most efficient ergonomics and created no obstacles and limitations for light flow on working surface. 

The main goal of the research is creating fine-drawn appliance design for living space zoning and transformation solutions for different pastime scenarios in the pandemic and post-pandemic world.

Brand – Maytoni GmbH 

Lead Designer - Alexey Danilin

Engineer - Nikita Morozov

Product Manager - Natalia Danilova

Assistant Product Manager - Karim Tabishche

Visualizer - Dmitry Cherednikov