Posted by in PROJECTS Abstract The traditional idea of urban public lighting is based on a double approach: on one side, economical savings and technical performances based on quantitative data, on the other side, the creative contribution of lighting practitioners focuses on enhancing urban amenity and strengthening the night-time experience of the city. This dual position is also well…Read more »
Posted by in ISSUES Waht about the city in the daylife? How light interact with materials, shapes, colours, phenomena affecting human perception? How ca we, as designers and researcher, observe the natural phenomena of direct and diffused natural lighting in the urban playground and translate it into meaninfgul ways to arrange the spaces in function of light perception? In…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 »
Posted by in ISSUES Designing a garden is related to the composition and combination of spaces and shapes. It is this intelligent play of assembled volumes that can be perceived by the juxtaposition of shadows and light reflected by the objects of the garden in order to give the human beings the visual perception of the space. As an…Read more »
Posted by in ISSUES What role will the 21th century city lights play in our contemporary cities? What kind of lighting strategies can be adopted to better illuminate the nocturnal cities? Is it everything based on technological innovation or projects should be focused on social expectation and perception of the space in order to assure protection, safety, a better…Read more »
Posted by in ISSUES Increased awareness of the environmental effect of using fossil fuels as well as government targets to reduce carbon dioxide emissions have resulted in an increased interest in methods of harnessing solar energy. Traditional techniques are based around the photovoltaic effect and have been successfully developed to produce a commercially viable product. More interesting for a…Read more »
Posted by in EXPERIMENTS 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 »
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 EXPERIMENTS 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 »
Posted by in EXPERIMENTS 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 »
Posted by in ISSUES Urban spaces are full of artificial lights that make the space generally visible, legible and sometimes very crowded of information and lighting signals. Urban lighting is not only about functional luminaries and lighting fixtures but also lighting signs for street information and navigation and communication billboards for commercial advertisements are available. More than this, several…Read more »
Posted by in ISSUES Lighting the city means really to create lighting for people considering the space and what happens in the space not only in terms of activities during the time (always changing in function of specific uses and patterns of use of the space) but also in terms of climate conditions (outdoor spaces are really interested and…Read more »
Posted by in ISSUES Cities around the world are exploring energy self-sufficient systems in preparation for the end of conventional sources of energy such as oil: renewable energies are applied in form of public artworks giving the urban planners a new and versatile tool for sustainable energy generation into cities in both small and large scale. There is an…Read more »
Posted by in ISSUES Energy is crucial to human well-being and to the socio-economical and health-environmental development of a country; conversely the situation of energy access is far for being a right for all: more than 2 billion people worldwide have no electric power and no hope of connecting on a national utility grid and an additional billion people…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 increased interest to the image of the city at night gives the research the opportunity for a deep investigation on differentiated applications of light in order to shape the nocturnal with lighting settings more human oriented. The night, in the public sphere of the city, is a social and psychological fact in a mix…Read more »
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