SunShower Light Therapy Design by Kitae Kim from usa

In 2013, researchers from the Mayo Clinic reported that nearly 70 percent of Americans were on at least one prescription drug with 13 percent of Americans on antidepressants. Light is an essential part of human life and it affects the body like a drug does, influencing our mood and happiness with its quality whether it comes from the searing blue light from phone screens or from the pale fluorescents overhead. The SunShower Light aims to utilize LEDs to combat SAD, (Seasonal Affective Disorder) a depression that occurs during the Winter when people are not exposed to enough sunlight disrupting sleep, focus, and most of all happiness. The SunShower seeks to question the traditional mode of activation via switch by instead lighting up when the pod is inserted into its stand, glowing white when inserted upright to treat SAD, and then turning red, mimicking dusk, when inserted upside down to boost melatonin production helping users sleep. It treats the activation of light as a ritual, a connection of mind, body and nature by the deliberate placing of the lightpod into its base to foster a respect for the illumination we expose ourselves to and the effect it has on our wellbeing.