The Lagos Light Series is a collaboration between Lagos and Zurich designers presented at 'Sparked!', as part of Lagos Design Week 2023
On first sighting Nigeria and Switzerland might not appear as natural design bedfellows, but the ‘Lagos Light Series’ developed by Lagos’ 16/16 – a boutique hotel that doubles up as a design-focused space that acts as an incubator for innovation – and Hot Wire Extensions, an interdisciplinary design studio based in Zurich, is illustrative of how sustainability and the global realities of the climate emergency can bring together cross-continental collaboration and result in the creation of...
Hathirathmani was especially interested in creating a dynamic yet practical intervention and is quick to note that 'recycling and reuse happen very organically over here, and it is linked to the relationship we have with our environment – large population, small land mass, limited space and resources.'
Launching the Lagos Light Series at Sparked!, an exhibition that coincides with Design Week Lagos 2023, the pair are already thinking of both extending the series and expanding their urban factory based in the heart of Lagos Island. ‘Fabio and I are building out a 2-year design incubator program that will see a number of other material specialists come to set up shop in the maker space,’ Hathirathmani shares.
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