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News

  We are progressing well into Phase 1 of our research project in collaboration with LUCI on Smart Lighting. Having received fascinating contributions through our survey so far, we are calling...

Don Slater & Configuring light are excited to announce thier contribution to PLDC 2018 in Singapore on 26. October on the topic “Social lighting and smart lighting: can they connect?” It...

How do we define a city and its lighting as ‘smart’? The survey which forms phase one of our research collaboration with Luci (Lighting Urban Community International)- has been launched!...

  We are pleased to announce the publication of a piece by Jo Entwistle and Don Slater: ‘Light as material/lighting as practice: urban lighting and energy’ in the Science Museum Group...

A really special event for us: CL delighted to be guests of iGuzzini at Frankfurt Light and Building to launch our Social Lightscapes Workshops publication. This culminates our three year...

We're pleased and proud to be launching a new publication, Social Lightscapes Workshops. This is the final publication of our workshop series exploring social research in lighting design, supported by...

CL are part of team that has won a major British Academy grant to study 'Disconnected Infracstructures and Violence against Women' in India. The project explores women’s knowledge of and...

We are really delighted to announce that Configuring Light has been shortlisted for the Professional Lighting Design Recognition Award 2017 in the category, ‘Award for Research’, to be presented during...

We have a few places left for our final Social Lightscapes Workshop, at Place des Fetes, Paris 27-30 October: Deadline for applications, or expressions of interest, has been extended to...

Applications invited for our final Social Lightscapes Workshop - Place des Fêtes, Paris. 27-30 October 2017. Configuring Light (London School of Economics) – in partnership with PLDC and iGuzzini, and in...

LSE Sociology and the Configuring Light research group are delighted to host a seminar by Mikkel Bille, one of the central voices in the emerging literatures on the material culture...

The most pervasive, and popular, issues about light revolve around ‘wellbeing’, a term that covers a wide range of potential impacts of lighting on physical and mental health and quality...

CL's third iGuzzini-sponsored Social Lightscapes Workshop was held in Timisoara, Romania 6-9 October. Elettra and Don worked with a group of 25 architecture students, developing a new approach to social...

What do you RESIST? Send us your answers TODAY (#ProjectResist or on FaceBook LSEResist or @ConfigLight). Then join Light Collective/SLM at LSE Friday night (30/9/16, 7.30) to see all our responses...

Light is critical to our relationship to the sensory world; so too our visual representations of it. This seventh ESRC-funded seminar explores the many dimensions of light and lighting in...

CL participated in a project in the Getsemani district of Cartagena, Colombia: street research and pilot installation of a new lantern design in Calle Tripita y Media (9-16 July 2016). This...

The way that urban spaces, such as social housing estates, are lit reinforce the increasing levels of inequality faced by cities says a new report by the Configuring Light research...

The Oman Observer has featured the 'Urban Lightscapes/Social Nightscapes Muscat' workshop: Configuring Light team are currently in Muscat, Oman, to work with architecture and urban design students at GUtech on...

Next month, we will launch a new report on social inequalities in public lighting. The event will take place on 12 May 2016, 5-7pm, in the Shaw Library (Old Building) of the...

This year's Architecture Triennale Milan will showcase Configuring Light's Urban Lightscapes/Social Nightscapes exihibition. It will document the Urban Lightscapes/Social Nightscapes project, an innovative week‐long workshop which brought international lighting designers, architects,...

On 12 February 2016, Configuring Light is launching an expert working group to tackle social inequalities in public lighting. The project is funded by LSE HEIF5 and assembles high-profile experts...

We kicked off our series of six international light workshops in collaboration with iGuzzini-funded LSE Visiting Fellow Dr Elettra Bordonaro at Acland Burghley comprehensive school on 26th January 2016. The...