Flower Powered, 2020.

We feel power in natural sounds when everything is silent. We wanted to build a product that can bring such power to people in a protest. Our name is inspired by an event that took place in Berkeley in the 1960-70s called “Flower Power”, where protesters wore vibrant colors and gave out flowers to policemen as symbols of peace and nonviolence. We wanted to utilize those symbols to advocate against climate change. Our design revolves around combining sounds from nature, light patterns and building a sense of community. We designed a wearable button capable of interacting with other similar buttons through bluetooth. Indeed, each person will have a default color and associated symbolic sound when first receiving it. Before the protest starts, the button encourages protesters to build connections with each other by enabling them to exchange sounds and colors, creating shared light patterns and playing symbolic sounds in unison.