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Social Lightscapes Workshop – Paris! 27-30 October. Deadline extended
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...
Read MoreSocial Lightscapes Workshop – Paris! 27-30 October
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...
Read MoreAtmospheric Communities – seminar with Mikkel Bille 17 May, 12.30-14.00, LSE
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...
Read MoreLight and Wellbeing: final ESRC seminar (27 April)
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...
Read MoreSocial Lightscapes Workshop – ROME!
Places available for our next Social Lightscapes Workshop - this time in a suburb of Rome, 4-7 April - contact us if interested, and do spread the word through your...
Read MoreSocial Lightscapes Workshop – Brisbane West End
We're getting ready for CL's 4th Social Lightscapes workshop: hosted by QUT in Brisbane's West End area, 13-16 December. Some places still available for participants to join us. Sponsored by...
Read MoreSocial Lightscapes Workshop – Timisoara, Romania
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...
Read MoreProject Resist – Light graffitti and light activism at LSE Resist Festival
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...
Read MoreLight in Visual Culture: 7th ESRC seminar (14 Sept) –
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...
Read MoreCL in Cartagena lighting research and pilot installation
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...
Read MoreMona Sloane on Impact as Dialogue on the LSE Impact Blog
Knowledge exchange and impact activities often have to negotiate, incorporate and synthesise different kinds of expertise. Mona Sloane looks at how the Configuring Light Roundtables have sought to bring together...
Read MoreCL in architects datafile: Tackling in equalities in lighting of towns and cities
The lessons learned from Configuring Light's roundtables project on lighting inequalities has been featured in Architects Datafile, you can read more here.
Read MoreLux Magazine on Configuring Light’s Light Inequalities Project
The lighting industry magazine LUX has covered Configuring Light's light inequalities project. You can read more here.
Read MoreMona Sloane in The Guardian Housing: Darkness is a luxury not granted to Britain’s council estates
Mona Sloane has written an opinion piece for The Guardian Housing on the issue of light inequalities on UK's council estates, you can read it here.
Read MoreReport launch and film: Tackling inequalities in the lighting of towns and cities
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...
Read MoreCL Lighting Design Workshop featured in Oman Observer
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...
Read MoreJoin us for the launch of the ‘Social Inequalities in Public Lighting’ report!
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...
Read MoreArchitecture Triennale Milan 2016 shows Urban Lightscapes/Social Nightscapes exhibition
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,...
Read MoreMona Sloane and Elettra Bordonaro to speak at EcoBuild 2016
Mona Sloane and Elettra Bordonaro will be speaking about the Urban Lightscapes project at EcoBuild 2016 on 8 March 2016, participating in the seminar 'Creating Successful Places with Light and...
Read MoreNEW PROJECT – Configuring Light launches expert working group to tackle social inequalities in public lighting
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...
Read MoreConfiguring Light to host next ESRC seminar ‘Light Methodologies’ on 3 March 2016, 1–5pm, at LSE
If you would like to attend this seminar, please email configuringlight@lse.ac.uk to confirm your place. The sixth Configuring Light ESRC Seminar will take place on 3 March (1-5pm) at LSE (Graham Wallas...
Read MoreLighting workshop at London’s Acland Burghley comprehensive school a great success
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...
Read MoreConfiguring Light successfully hosts 5th ESRC seminar in collaboration with Philips
Configuring Light's 5th ESRC seminar series successfully continued on 3 December 2015 with the seminar ‘Cities, Light, Technology’, funded by the ESRC and hosted by Philips in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Speaker's...
Read MoreConfiguring Light Team speaking at Demanio Marritimo Festival
The Configuring Light team is travelling to Ancona, Italy, in July 2015 to speak at the Demanio Marritimo Festival about social research in lighting design.
Read MoreMona Sloane and Elettra Bordonaro to speak at PLDC 2015
Mona Sloane and Elettra Bordonaro are in Rome this week and be part of PLDC 2015. They will speak about the Whitecross project in their talk 'Urban Lightscapes/Social Nightscapes – A call...
Read MoreDon Slater speaking at Green Light Symposium at Delaware University
Configuring Light is travelling again: Don Slater is in the U.S. at the moment to speak about our work in Colombia and Whitecross at the "Green Light: Prospects in Lighting...
Read More‘Darkness as Luxurious Good’ – Configuring Light in Citymetric
Configuring Light has written a piece about darkness, new technologies and the social meaning of street lighting for CityMetric - you can have a read here.
Read MoreConfiguring Light joins Inside Out Festival 2015
We are back from the summer break with our first event this term: The 'Light Talk:Night Walk' event is part of the Inside Out Festival and will take you on...
Read MoreMona Sloane speaks about Configuring Light at LSE Research Festival
“I really enjoyed both lectures as they made me think about familiar things in a totally new way. Particularly Configuring Light as it connected two areas of interest for me...
Read MoreDr Elettra Bordonaro joins the Configuring Light team for iGuzzini funded LSE Visiting Fellowship
Configuring Light is growing! We are delighted to welcome a new member to the team: Dr Elettra Bordonaro is starting a 2-year visiting fellowship with in the LSE Sociology Department...
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