Social lightscapes workshops: social research in design for lighting professionals

UNSPECIFIED (2018) Social lightscapes workshops: social research in design for lighting professionals. , Slater, Don, Bordonaro, Elettra, Entwistle, Joanne and Corten, Isabelle (eds.). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 9781909890411

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Abstract

All lighting is ‘social lighting’: it participates in staging social life and social space. To light a street one way rather than another is to shape the way it feels and the way it works for all the very different people who interact with it. Lighting professionals – which includes not only lighting designers but all lighting-related professionals such as planners, architects, engineers – are therefore in the business of making social places and intervening in social lives. Of course, their lighting strategies need to work technically and aesthetically – but they also need to work socially, to improve the quality of people’s lives and interactions, and to avoid negative impacts. This provides the starting point for the social research in design approach we have been exploring through the Social Lightscapes Workshop Series: in order to make lighting work socially, professionals need to value the social aspects of lighting as seriously as they do the technical and aesthetic aspects of light, integrating social thinking, understanding and research into their work. Developing a fuller social understanding of a space and its complexity, moreover, can produce more creative, innovative and sustainable design strategies.

Item Type:	Monograph (Report)
Official URL:	https://www.configuringlight.org/klin_portfolio/so...
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Editors
Divisions:	Sociology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	26 Feb 2018 16:48
Last Modified:	08 May 2025 23:39
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86902

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