Bloom is a new tool aiming to change the way we view and go about mental health maintenance and management. Bloom is a lamp which acts as a visual guide to walk users through meditation, mindfulness and deep breathing exercises which aim to reinforce routine and create healthy habits which are important to maintaining good mental health. Accompanied by an app the user can schedule exercises and choose the types of activities they want to run.
The lamp strives to acknowledge the difficulties associated with having to continually reiterate when one needs space and so additionally the lamp acts as a cue to others in shared spaces that a member of the household when one needs some alone time.
The system was intended to be offered as an open source tool which could be 3D FDM printed and assembled using standardised components.Â