“How can we renew the living environment from the perspective of light, both natural and artificial, for the future?” presented by Ex
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Session Title:
- Human and Non-Human Bodies: A Dialogue
Presentation Title:
- How can we renew the living environment from the perspective of light, both natural and artificial, for the future?
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Abstract:
COVID-19 leaves a clear mark on our living environment. The pandemic has changed the use of public space. We have started to spend more time in nearby outdoor spaces. It is the place where we see the other. Where we make the social city. Light, natural and artificial, is a fundamental part of this. Light is much more than a medium that enables us to see. It affects our health, our ecosystems and the places we live in in countless ways. Light can bring people together in urban spaces, emphasize the culture and identity of the city and shape the nightscape.
For me, public space is not a saturated or static space, but a living organism. A continuous process of interaction between people and their environment. Light uses time and space as its material. Light art in public space does not begin or end in a physical form but is a transfer of energy. An infinite potential of relationships that permanently engenders new links between things and people. It can lift the space out of its anonymity and add new and unexpected connections or break fixed patterns of movement. It does not have to draw attention to itself, it provides sight of the space. Art of light as a representation of life, of energy in the city, as a form of poetry.
