Author: configuring_light
Don Slater to speak at Professional Lighting Design Convention
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?” […]
New Publication in Science Museum Group Journal’s Special Issue
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 […]
Phase 1 of Pathways to Smart lighting: Launched!
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! […]
Social Lightscapes publication launch at Frankfurt Light and Building
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 […]
Launching Social Lightscapes Workshop publication
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 […]
Atmospheric communities-seminar with Mikkel Bille
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 […]
Project Resist
Project Resist was a collaboration with Sharon Stammers and Martin Lupton, our friends from the Light Collective and Social Light Movement (SLM). We got funding from the LSE Sociology Resist […]
Dialogue over dissemination: Unlocking the potential of knowledge exchange through creative collaboration.
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 […]
Opinion in The Guardian Housing: “Darkness is a luxury not granted to Britain’s council estates”
Opinion piece by Mona Sloane in The Guardian Housing: “Most people do not think of darkness as a luxury. But if you live in a council flat with a bulkhead […]
Tackling inequalities in lighting of towns and cities
Article in Architects Datafile: “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 […]