By MORAKANA

Nopales is a modular lamp designed to be playfully assembled from a single printed circuit board. Inspired by Mexican landscapes, this playful design invites users to create their personal luminous garden Unlike typical PCBs that are flat and hidden inside enclosures, Nopales subverts this industrial nature to create a delightful object that is meant to be touched, bring joy, and evoke life into our spaces. It can ship flat as a postcard and can be hand assembled into your own nopal, grow you cactus by combining cards. Nopales fosters a personal, interactive experience, transforming spaces with a gentle, captivating glow.

Ground, water, thorns and electrons. This Nopales Printed Circuit Board (PCB) can ship flat as a postcard and hand assembled into your own nopal. It's modular so you can grow your cactus by combining cards. Can run on solar or batteries.

MORAKANA is a New York City-based studio founded by Tiri Kananuruk (Thailand) and Sebastián Morales Prado (Mexico). Our work is characterized by experimentation, development of custom tools, and scientific and artistic inquiry. By leveraging scientific principles and challenging the role of technology in our lives, MORAKANA invites us to think critically about plausible means for Nature to reclaim the physical and digital ecosystems we are part of.

2024; printed circuit board, 3" x 5" x 6" (L x W x H).

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