It’s being touted as the ‘wearable for the world’ –Worldbeing – a wearable and app designed by Benjamin Hubert of Layer may just change our relationship with nature. Alice Blackwood reports.
October 26th, 2015
Are you ready to be a little bit inspired? I am.
This time we live in, it’s an interesting juxtaposition of digital versus human – on one end of the axis is green living – our growing devotion to health and wellbeing, mindfulness and slow living, our appreciation for the hand-made, organics, yoga, cycling, relaxation and environmentally conscious living.
On the other end of the axis is the wide open horizons of the digital age – touch-free transactions, online purchasing, intuitive devices – it all feels very impersonal while also being exquisitely sensitive to our personal likes, wants and needs.
Cue Worldbeing – a wearable and app that brings it all together – tracking our lives digitally to draw an accurate picture of just how much impact we have on the world around us – and on ourselves.
Launched by Layer, the new experiential industrial design studio founded by Benjamin Hubert, Worldbeing (supported by the Carbon Trust) tracks your carbon usage, encouraging you to make better decisions – whether it how you travel or how where/how you shop for groceries.
And the best bit? It links you in to a community, both virtual and real, where you can challenge one another and egg each other on, and through the power of crowd-pull, perhaps transform the world.
Together the wearable and app are like a tool that brings user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) into play. Through both you can measure your daily carbon footprint as you eat and drink your way through the day; measure your travel; track your modes of transport through your wearable; track your purchase information through store and credit card; monitor your home energy consumption; monitor your device-specific energy consumption – this little piece of innovation can do it all.
It’s an exciting proposition and the potential for personal empowerment and community strength is clear. But enough from me – watch the video and see it all in action, below.
Over 600,000 people have already shown their support for Worldbeing. Join this social, physical and digital movement against climate change, via Thunderclap.
Layer
layerdesign.com
A searchable and comprehensive guide for specifying leading products and their suppliers
Keep up to date with the latest and greatest from our industry BFF's!
Lizzy Stageman blends ancestral wisdom with artistry to reveal grand life stories in her contemporary Aboriginal designs. ‘Finding My Place’ transforms her original art into captivating commercial textiles, wall coverings & acoustic art.
Didier studio celebrates the harmony of democratic design and understated utility with the Gunzel seating and table collection.
This exciting new carpet design collaboration by GH Commercial with interior architect and product designer, Lorena Gaxiola, blends artistic flair and uncompromising precision.
For Living Edge, B-Corp certification was the next appropriate step in a long journey focused on building a truly sustainable and socially responsible business. In 2023 they achieved certification at their first pass, giving customers a new level of environmental assurance and the company an important milestone to celebrate across two decades of staff-led, sector-leading sustainability practices.
Since the Nepal earthquakes of 2015, architect Neill Johanson of Davenport Campbell has been working to rebuild schools and support communities in Nepal’s remote regions. It’s a pro-bono project that has expanded from emergency efforts to a wider and longer-lasting vision.
Saturday Indesign returns to Melbourne in 2023, register your interest to exhibit, collaborate or attend today!
The internet never sleeps! Here's the stuff you might have missed
Prepare for a cultural awakening in the heart of Australia, as Mparntwe, also known as Alice Springs, prepares to host the 32nd edition of Desert Mob.
Paola Lenti, whose work is available in Australia through dedece, is in the top tier of contemporary designers and is celebrating a quarter-century of collaboration.