Lumetron

Lumetron

Technology, Fabrication, Light

Technology, Fabrication, Light

Technology, Fabrication, Light

INDEX

INDEX

Technology, Fabrication, Light
Technology, Fabrication, Light

Category

Category

R&D

R&D

Year

Year

2024

2024

I've always been drawn to the invisible forces that shape our world. Magnetism, in particular, felt like something that needed translatingnot into data points or graphs, but into an experience you could actually witness unfolding in real time. The project started with a fascination for 19th century variometersthose elegant instruments that measured geomagnetic variation through mechanical means. I wanted to take that same principle but push it somewhere different. Instead of needles on dials, what if the readout was light itself? What if we could watch magnetic fields move?

I've always been drawn to the invisible forces that shape our world. Magnetism, in particular, felt like something that needed translating—not into data points or graphs, but into an experience you could actually witness unfolding in real time. The project started with a fascination for 19th century variometers—those elegant instruments that measured geomagnetic variation through mechanical means. I wanted to take that same principle but push it somewhere different. Instead of needles on dials, what if the readout was light itself? What if we could watch magnetic fields move?

Rather than capture data, it encodes field strength as deflected light. Magnetism becomes motion, motion becomes form, and form becomes signal.

Rather than capture data, it encodes field strength as deflected light. Magnetism becomes motion, motion becomes form, and form becomes signal.

By rendering the invisible as oscillating illumination, the device proposes a new kind of measurement shaped by interference, diffraction, and delay.

By rendering the invisible as oscillating illumination, the device proposes a new kind of measurement shaped by interference, diffraction, and delay.

LINKS

Full technical study research report can be found here: The Geomagnetician's House - Synthesising Terrestrial Architecture

Credits

Noah Jenkins

Creative Director

Isabella Brooks

Designer

James Hughes

Motion Designer

Maria White

Copywriter

Links

Full technical study research report can be found here: The Geomagnetician's House - Synthesising Terrestrial Architecture