2023 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

Starry Night Orchids

Entrant

National Cheng Kung University

Category

Product Design - Engineering

Client's Name

Country / Region

Taiwan

Orchids represent abundance, harvest, fertility, beauty, prosperity, and luxury. White orchids symbolize innocence and purity, as well as elegance and reverence. This biotechnology enables orchids to glow in the dark through EU-compliant high-entropy oxides that are absorbed using non-genetically modified leaf veins, which make orchids glow in the designed pattern at night without other light sources in the presentation of a starry night on the petals.

There is no need to enter the planet Pandora in a virtual movie. Seeing glowing orchids displaying multi-colored luminescence in a dark night as a starry night, one can feel positive emotions in life such as peace, comfort, relaxation, happiness, and fulfillment. When looking at the starry sky among the orchids and counting the twinkling stars, there are countless brilliant dreams in the tiny stars. In the end, the stars are like eternal memories that connect the whole galaxy.

This is novel biotechnology to create a really glowing flower. This biotechnology is a NOT genetically modified technology.
This biotechnology enables orchids to glow in the dark through EU-compliant high-entropy oxides that are absorbed using non-genetically modified leaf veins. This technology further enables people to communicate with the glowing orchids in the senses and to feel the beauty and mystery of the glowing orchids in spirits as looking up at the starry night.

Glowing orchid displays a starry night at night. Starry glowing orchids make people calm, comfortable, and relaxed, and moreover improve one's mood, such as a sense of accomplishment to reveal a unique experience, referring to a starry night.

Credits

National Cheng Kung University
Yen-Hsun Su
University of Basel
Fei Pan
National Cheng Kung University
Ya-Hui Chang
National Cheng Kung University
Chia-Wei Chang
Monkey Lin Studio
Li-Lin Huang
National Cheng Kung University
Wei-Sheng Chen
Ku Flower Studio
Wen-Min Ku
National Taiwan University
Shu-Mei Wang
Tainan New Agriculture Biotech Production and Marketing Cooperative
Chen-Piao Yen
National Cheng Kung University
Jyh-Ming Ting
National Cheng Kung University
Wei-Chien Ma
National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology
Sheng-Lung Tu
Taiwan Orchid Growers Association (T.O.G.A)
Council of Agriculture (Taiwan)
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