Publications | Reports - Configuring Light/Staging the Social

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 […]

Configuring Light Report: Tackling Social Inequalities in Public Lighting

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 […]

Public lighting reinforces class division, scientists say

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 […]

“Student project to improve lighting at Seeb Souq”

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 […]

Opinion: Poorly designed lighting heightens social inequalities

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

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

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 […]