A social approach to lighting design: LIGHT-SPACE-PEOPLE-TIME RELATION considering context, nighttime based activity, people feedbacks and behaviours. In this prototpe situation, people are unconscious dynamic switches and are enabled to lit a portion of their space: lighting is shaped by the social use of the space and the space is shaped by lighting. The environment…Read more »
Category: EXPERIMENTS
Atlas of Urban Lighting Experiences 2.0: Premises
Concept Life and identity of the cities all over the world are shaped by light in different ways. As a consequence cities are lived and experienced by people in different ways because the nocturnal lit cityscape affect people’s behaviours, feelings, thoughts, attitudes. Today, the night in the public realm of the city, has been deeply…Read more »
Investigating the Experience of the lit Environment in Milan Downtown
Concept SEETI is a field survey using practical methods to analyze the experience of artificial light in the city from a specific case study: the center of Milan. The field survey from a particular case study: Milan downtown between Piazza Cordusio and specifically the Palazzo dei Mercanti, the Duomo and Piazza San Babila, investigating…Read more »
ELSE: urban lighting through the eyes of the citizens
The city, today, extends itself beyond the physical borders to become a perceptual, communicative, relational and social interactive landscape: the urban space is a mix of perceptions, gestures and events that urban lighting celebrates shaping the perception of the individual experience of the night and the relationship between inhabitants and the urban space. The design…Read more »