The world’s newest nation, South Sudan, is a place eager for new knowledge and new hope. Olivier Laboulle brought much-needed Little Sun lamps to South Sudan’s capital Juba, and he has shared his inspiring experiences with us here. Hello Friends of Little Sun! My name is Olivier Laboulle and, after working for two years with a […]
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Little Sun in Rishikesh, India – Part Two
Karin Lerche and Nanna Birk are graduate students at Denmark’s Roskilde University who recently went to India for their fieldwork. They brought a few Little Sun solar lamps to Rishikesh, an area in northern India in the Himalayan foothills, hoping to distribute them in the area, as very few people have electricity. As part two […]
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In Conversation with ‘Smiling Through Light’ Founder Mariama Kamara
As part of our ‘Little Sun: In Conversation’ series, we are happy to sit down with ‘Smiling Through Light’ Founder Mariama Kamara. Raised in Sierra Leone until the age of nine, then moving to London after civil war broke out in her native country, Mariama has a unique perspective on what it means to have […]
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Solar mobile phone charger testing in Senegal
Last month members of the Little Sun Team from our offices in Berlin and Senegal visited the eco-village of Yeuma to test our first community solar mobile phone charger, large enough to serve the needs of an entire village. Located about a three-hour drive from Dakar, Senegal, Yeuma is a village without electricity, but many […]
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Light Sculpts Life
There are 1.6 billion people in the world without access to electricity, and there is another billion without consistent access to power. This means that about a quarter of the world’s population does not have reliable access to energy. Little Sun is a solar-powered lantern, and although we won’t solve the world’s energy problem with […]
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The Rise of Little Sun
To talk about how Little Sun started, I actually need to go back a bit. My relationship to the sun started during my childhood in Iceland, when electricity was rationed because of the oil crisis in the early seventies. Olafur Eliasson with Little Sun. Iceland, 2012 As a five-year-old child I remember a siren in […]
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Light Is Life
For a long time now I have worked with light: its physical qualities, the meaning of light, and the profound impact that access to light has on our lives. Light is energy and energy is power. With Little Sun, I want to initiate an ambitious, collective project, which addresses the lack of energy access around […]
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Little Sun, “The Weather Project” and Connectivity
In making art, I have always been interested in the difference between looking at art alone and looking at it with other people. In art history, the other people part has never really been thoroughly described, and there was always this pretence that you are more or less alone on the planet. This seems to be the […]
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