Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces

Shanti Sumartojo (Monash University, Australia)

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Routledge
12 May 2022

Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; Landscape art & architecture; City & town planning - architectural aspects

This book advocates an approach to lighting design that focuses on how people experience illumination. Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces contextualises light, dark and lighting design within the settings, sensations, ideas and imaginaries that form our understandings of ourselves and the world around us.

The chapters in this collection bring a new perspective to lighting design, arguing for an approach that addresses how lighting is experienced, understood and valued by people. Across a range of new case studies from Australia, Germany, Denmark, and the United Kingdom, the authors account for lighting design’s crucial role in shaping our dynamic and messy experiential worlds. With many turning to innovative ethnographic methodologies, they powerfully demonstrate how feelings of comfort, safety, security, vulnerability, care and well-being can configure in and through how people experience and manipulate light and dark. By focusing on how lighting is improvised, arranged, avoided and composed in relation to the people and things it acts upon, the book advances understandings of lighting design by showing how improved experiences of the built environment can result from more sensitive and context-specific illumination.

The book is intended for social scientists who are interested in the lit or sensory world, as well as designers, architects, urban planners and others concerned with how the experience of light, dark and lighting might be both better understood and implemented in our shared public spaces.

Edited by: Shanti Sumartojo (Monash University Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 775g
ISBN: 9781032022642
ISBN 10: 1032022647
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 12 May 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shanti Sumartojo is Associate Professor of Design Research in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, and a member of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University. Grounded in human geography, and with a strong commitment to interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship, her research includes theoretically informed inquiry into how people experience design and technology in their surroundings, particularly in shared, public spaces. Her recent books include Atmospheres and the Experiential World (2018) and Geographies of Commemoration in a Digital World (2021).

Reviews for Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces

This book responds to the important and urgent need to improve our understanding of lighting design and its application in built environments. By examining the experiential, complex relationships we have with light, it illustrates new interdisciplinary ways for conceptualizing and designing lighting towards a more sensitive and context-specific practice. - Professor Nick Dunn, Executive Director, ImaginationLancaster This is a major book that provides an original alternative to the ideology of full light and to the dominance of technology in lighting design. By developing an atmospheric conceptual framework, this collective work subtly explores the diversity and complexity of the everyday lit world. This book will undoubtedly become a reference work. - Jean-Paul Thibaud, CNRS Research Director, ENSA Grenoble