Omer Sazir

The de-colonization of night:
How design can reconnect us with nocturnal objects and our natural rhythm

Humanity has colonized darkness with the flip of a switch—and design has done relatively little to enhance our experience, health, and needs at night. Since everything is different at night time, my thesis seeks to examine creation myth versus reality, dark versus light, and human night capabilities versus those of nocturnal animals—and how these factor in our sleep-deprivation. My thesis communicates the theory that just as nocturnal creatures look and behave differently, objects used in the dark should act and be designed differently, and in ways that change how we perceive them. Three nocturnal products provide solutions to a few of the problems that night presents to our photophilous population.

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