Re-thinking Lighting Design in a Sustainable Future
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Products and Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 1431
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design research; outdoor/exterior lighting design; architectural lighting design; transdisciplinary design research; responsive lighting
Interests: daylight; exterior lighting; lighting control; lighting design; lighting measurements; photosensors; road and tunnel lighting; sustainable lighting
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: lighting design research; architectural lighting; dynamic daylight and lighting; transdisciplinary design process
Interests: architecture; healing architecture; lighting design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the greatest challenge of our time—the climate crisis—we begin to understand the need to rethink our ways of living, in order to maintain the ecosystems to which we belong and depend upon. From this perspective, the role of lighting design has radically changed—we now understand light as an important tool in balancing the needs of both humans and the planet.
At a time of rapid technological change, we can easily forget the importance of supporting sustainable development from a holistic perspective, considering not only energy consumption, but also sustainable behavior, human well-being, better biodiversity for animals and plants, lifecycle assessments for products, connectedness, etc. However, we must solve the complex interplay between these aspects if we are to meet the 2050 goal of reducing the CO2 emission to net-zero and, at the same time, ensure a more sustainable approach to how we introduce light into our environments.
Lighting design is a diverse field involving a wide range of disciplines, including architecture and interior design, lighting engineering, virtual and media technology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and product development, amongst others. This diversity of approach, driven by collective desires for better lighting, presents certain challenges, but through knowledge-sharing across different scientific fields we can propose new ways of living with light—ways that consider the needs of people and planet and rethink the approach to lighting design for a sustainable future.
In this context, this Special Issue—which is a continuation of the Light Symposium 2022, organized by Aalborg University Copenhagen—aims to deliver a state-of-the-art outline of how to define sustainable approaches for lighting design to meet the UN sustainable development goals, which are the blueprint to achieving a better and more sustainable future for all.
Dr. Ute Besenecker
Dr. Lambros T. Doulos
Dr. Ellen Kathrine Hansen
Dr. Michael Mullins
Dr. Georgios Triantafyllidis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- daylight benefits and optimization
- daylight and lighting meeting human needs for natural environments
- hybrid lighting
- dynamic lighting
- responsive facades
- daylight design
- daylight systems light, health and behavior
- indoor climate and comfort
- light and well-being
- biological impact of lighting
- integrative lighting
- flicker
- light hazard urban lighting and sustainability
- smart cities and lighting
- darkness and atmosphere
- light and biodiversity
- reducing light pollution
- social lighting
- light supporting behavior
- light and safety
- light supporting sustainable mobility lighting technologies and circular economy
- personalized lighting systems
- smart lighting systems and luminaires
- lighting systems interfaces
- lighting and big data/machine learning
- product life cycle
- new materials for lighting fixtures
- lighting retrofit methodologies in lighting research and education
- surveying and monitoring methods
- cross disciplinary methods
- user interaction sustainable solutions—tools and standards in the design process
- future design standards for lighting design
- simulation and design tools
- tools for designing sustainable solutions with light
- building performance evaluation
- lighting design and the UN sustainability goals
- transdisciplinary processes for holistic design
