Posted by in PROJECTS Urban lighting for people and by people in the city of Milan: a participatory approach to the exploration and rethinking of the urban lighting starting from a conscious and collective reflexion of its inhabitants. SEETY MILANO is http://seety.altervista.org a collective invitation to observe the night-time of the city and reflect on its lighting in a…Read more »
Posted by in ISSUES Glow in the dark materials Photoluminescence (PL) is a process in which a substance absorbs photons (electromagnetic radiation) and then re-radiates photons. It consists in an excitation to a higher energy state and then a return to a lower energy state accompanied by the emission of a photon. The period between absorption and emission is…Read more »
Posted by in ISSUES The efficiency and energy savings of public lighting are currently very hardly debated subjects and the general understanding supported by the lighting design practice agree that there is more to street lighting than percentage, figures, charts, calculations and statistics alone. The nighttime public lighting is a more complex argument: an increasing numbers of papers and…Read more »
