Lighting Design Research in Public Spaces

During ‘Lights 2010’ a research project by Ulrika Wänström Lindh, was set up as a full scale laboratory in the Christinae Church park in Alingsås. If you download the pdf-file you can read more about the project outcome and of the results. This conference paper was presented at the CIE 27th Session in South Africa 10-15 July 2011.

Ulrika Wänström Lindh is a PhD student at the School of Design and Crafts in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Applied Arts and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg. Ulrika has a background in interior design and architecture, and has also worked as a lighting designer. Her doctoral thesis deals with visual observations and spatial experiments on and around the effect of light distribution, placement and direction of light within the space in relation to the perceived shape and experienced spatial atmosphere. She is further investigating concepts such as spatial ‘enclosedness’, spatiality and spaciousness in relation to lighting design. This spatial exploration together with the development of inherent concepts has led to the search for the lighting grammar that can become part of the lighting designer’s toolbox.

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Reference:

Wänström-Lindh, U. (2011) . LIGHTING DESIGN RESEARCH IN PUBLIC SPACE: A HOLISTIC

APPROACH TO A COMPLEX REALITY. The 27 Session of the CIE. International conference in Sun City, South Africa 10-15 July 2011. s. 767-776. International Commission on Illumination, ISBN 978 3 901906 99 2, Nr. CIE 197:2011. Volume 1, part 2.