Gold Prize A cast-off skin

Name : Yoh Komiyama (Japan)

Category : An outlet plug to save energy

The purpose of the work :
"A cast-off skin" is designed to perform 3 functions
#1. to save energy,
#2. to prevent dust or waste from penetrating an outlet.
#3. to maintain a connection between an outlet plug and an outlet.

Concept of the design;
Traditional Japanese people called an existing thing in this world "Utsusemi."
"Utsusemi" is a cast-off skin of the cicada insect. The outlet which I saw was an empty container, an "Utsusemi". An invisible soul (a transparent outlet plug) entered the container, and so it was reborn to connect the world.
When an outlet plug is pulled out of an outlet it lies like a cast-off skin without a soul.
But will it yearn for an outlet so?
"A cast-off skin" is based on this simple idea.