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Dialogue over dissemination: Unlocking the potential of knowledge exchange through creative collaboration.

  • By configuring_light
  • 14/06/2016

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 […]

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Opinion in The Guardian Housing: “Darkness is a luxury not granted to Britain’s council estates”

  • By configuring_light
  • 19/05/2016

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 […]

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Tackling inequalities in lighting of towns and cities

  • By configuring_light
  • 13/05/2016

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 […]

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Configuring Light Report: Tackling Social Inequalities in Public Lighting

  • By configuring_light
  • 12/05/2016

View video herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=85OSbD7Ji4g Public lighting plays a prominent role in reflecting and reproducing inequalities, particularly in the public realm and in the context of housing in London. There is a […]

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Public lighting reinforces class division, scientists say

  • By configuring_light
  • 11/05/2016

Article in LUX Magazine: “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 […]

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“Student project to improve lighting at Seeb Souq”

  • By configuring_light
  • 27/04/2016

The German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) is collaborating with the Configuring Light programme based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Social Light Movement […]

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“Darkness has become a luxury good in London”: On the social meaning of street lighting

  • By configuring_light
  • 17/02/2016

Light, whether natural or artificial, is a powerful material. It is fundamental to our lives, and it can help create new and interesting spaces in many different ways. Even though […]

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Opinion: Poorly designed lighting heightens social inequalities

  • By configuring_light
  • 17/02/2016

Tenants of social housing estates shouldn’t have to tolerate motorway-style lighting, say Joanne Entwistle, Don Slater and Mona Sloane.

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LSE Impact Blog: Designing nocturnal cities: Illuminating the social role light plays in urban life.

  • By configuring_light
  • 14/01/2016

Sociologists Joanne Entwistle, Don Slater, and Mona Sloane look at the fundamental role of light in social life. Lighting has a lot to say about social structures, yet many of […]

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Derby. In: Isenstadt, S., Dietrich Neumann & Petty, M. M. (eds.) Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination (2015)

  • By configuring_light
  • 01/03/2015

Entwistle, J., Slater, D. R. & Sloane, M. (2015) Derby. In: Isenstadt, S., Dietrich Neumann & Petty, M. M. (eds.) Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination. Routledge, New […]

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Configuring Light/Staging the Social is an interdisciplinary research programe that explores the role lighting plays in our everyday life to help build a better social knowledge basis for lighting design interventions.

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