AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being
KEYWORDS
sleep, radio, News
COUNTRY
Denmark
DESIGNED BY
Varenya Raj is an Interaction Designer based out of Copenhagen. Understanding people's need in their context and addressing them through his skills in physical, digital and service interactions excite him. His interest lies in inspecting the unknown and bringing it to the surface. That curiosity led him to work in oncology and e-banking fields in the earlier part of his life.
WEBSITE
http://www.varenyaraj.com/project/nidra
Nidra – Well begun is half done!
Nidra helps office goers to recover from sleep deprivation by playing happy news upon waking up.
Workspaces in today's time produce huge stress on its employees especially, in emergency services due to erratic schedules. These professionals put their work before their health due to the demanding nature of work. Such routine, when adopted for a longer period of time, leads to many health hazards that fail to detect the real culprit i.e., Sleep Deprivation. My project, Nidra (means sleep in Hindi) tinkers with the idea of externalising one’s emotion into a tangible form to bring something invisible to light. It's a portable radio that plays news based on the mood its owner wakes up with. It plays positive news on days when its owner wakes groggily to alleviate the mornings before office and on days, upon waking up in a good mood, it plays news from all the categories. Everyday's mood is logged and printed out at each month’s end to introspect about work-life balance and to make informed decisions. This enables Nidra to produce a short-term and a long-term impact on the office goers.