Multicomponent Title: Less Light for More Effect - Unconventional Wisdom: Creative thinking in Lighting Design Practice
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- Submitting institution
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- MI_LessLight
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Multicomponent with contextual information – Other
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- January
- Year
- 2014
- URL
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https://portfolios.napier.ac.uk/view/view.php?t=2QesfyatLdAbvWK3CO6N
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research explores the disconnect between lighting standards, guidance, common practice and the human visual and emotional response to light. This body of research explores the observation that applying rigid lighting standards produces joyless lighting environments and that lighting ‘efficiency’ is a misused term applied to the quantitative measurement of light output rather than being applied to the effective use of light. Through various projects, presented in this multi component output, the author provides lighting alternatives based on his observations that standards tend to naturally lead to standardised solutions; that lighting standards focus heavily on quantitative measurements when end users experience these environments qualitatively; lighting metrics use mathematical models of idealised vision rather than the actual visual effect and that there are no metrics for lighting qualities like shadows, shafts of sunlight or the seasonal changing colour of natural light. As a response to these challenges, this body of research challenges the intrinsic nature of lighting and lighting design. Through practice, the author questions received wisdom in the discipline and tests it against personal sensory experiences of light in the environment. This multi component output also includes a review of academic literature to ground the empirical practice experience in a theoretical basis. The research takes the end user of the project into consideration in a way that differs from conventional lighting ‘wisdom’ by responsibly delivering projects that have aesthetically enhanced the architectural space in a way that was not detrimental to the user and did not waste energy. Through a combination of developed research processes and personal responsiveness, artistic sensibilities and user-responses rather than definitive ‘correctness’ , author has achieved ‘efficiency’ and aesthetically powerful research projects shown in the practice led projects and the invitations to be keynote speaker to a wide variety of stakeholders and peers in this output.
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- Non-English
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