Highlighting future cities with bioluminescence

A team of designers and engineers at Studio Roosegaarde , led by designer and architect Dan Ruszgard, working in conjunction with Stony Brooke University, introduced the luminous plant to the public, incorporating the luminous biological pigment luciferin into an ordinary plant. Despite the scary name, luciferin is just a pigment that allows animals such as fireflies or jellyfish to produce light. This is reported by the blog SUNY .



Dan Ruzgard dreams of combining nature and technology to create new and unique projects in the urban landscape. In his vision, technology and nature should “merge” together so that people, for example, stop looking at screens for information. The designer came specially to work on the project in the States, because there the restrictions on conducting similar developments are much softer than European ones.
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According to statistics from an independent information agency within the US Federal Statistical System, the Energy Information Administration, about 12% of all electricity in the US is spent on city lighting. It would be great if, instead of such a waste of energy for fighting darkness, it would be possible to light the streets with the help of plants that do not consume electricity.



Project Dana - not the first luminous plant. In 2013, Kickstarter successfully conducted a campaign in support of the Glowing Plant project, where it was possible to order both seeds of a genetically modified plant, as well as a set for independent gene modification of plants. Unfortunately, like many other crowdfunding projects, Glowing Plant has postponed the release date of its luminous plants for the second time - at first they promised to start deliveries in April 2014, then at the end of 2014.