When art meets sustainable development, watch out.  Rather, watch.  Olafur Eliasson’s new work, a solar-powered lamp that he and Frederik Ottesen designed and developed, will be distributed throughout the developing world:

Explaining why he had developed a social project, the Berlin-based Danish artist said: “Art is always interested in society in all kinds of abstract ways, though this has a very explicit social component. The art world sometimes lives in a closed-off world of art institutions, but I still think there’s a lot of work to show that art can deal with social issues very directly.”