Vitruvian Power

Électricité de France (EDF) is the world’s largest producer of electricity. In 2014, EDF began the “Sharing Energy in the City 2030” competition through its Research and Development Department. Along with a team of multidisciplinary designers, we entered the competition with a proposal called “The Vitruvian Power Project”, which looks at transforming human body energy into electric energy by using different kinds of technologies. The proposal was selected as the Best Collaborative Research Project.

Imagine our clothes, belts, caps, pants, winter jackets, shirts along with smart devices such as wristbands and watches harvesting electricity from heat and movement. The Vitruvian Energy Project proposal aims to transform human body activities into electric energy by using different kinds of technologies.

The proposal began from the basic law of energy that states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Instead, energy moves and can be converted from one form to another. The project promises to be extremely influential in the renewable energy sector. It has the potential to make people more aware of and more invested in alternative energies because they can become individual generators of energy. The Vitruvian Power Project proposes solutions to the world’s energy crisis by focusing on the actions and the potential of individuals.