RESEARCH

 

The Lighting Design Lab: Advancing Lighting Solutions through Research

The Lighting Design Lab combines research from architecture, engineering, and technology in a human-centric approach to lighting solutions that seek to improve our built environment with applied knowledge of lighting design. Researchers, private business partners, municipalities, and graduate students collaborate to solve relevant societal problems. In this transdisciplinary approach, the learning process of analyzing, making, implementing, and testing is created in real-life scenarios such as hospitals, schools, public spaces, and events.

Experiments through scale models, photo-realistic simulations, and 1:1 dynamic lighting design mock-ups on-site are developed to study how light can affect people in different environments.

The Scientific Experiments Address These Needs through the Following:

• Architectural contextual analysis
• Concept design and development
• Prototyping
• Information technology and programming
• Autonomous controlled lighting and technical hardware solutions
• Sensors including thermal camera tracking, EEG, smartphone applications and anthropological qualitative research methodologies

Research Focus
Current research activities include projects spanning from:

• Circadian rhythm lighting in nursing homes
• Public lighting installations for municipalities
• Smart city applications of sensor technologies
• Light pollution
• Combining daylight and dynamic artificial lighting to improve well-being
• Productivity and sustainability

To achieve these aims, unified, scientific, research methods are being developed, combining architectural, engineering, anthropological and media technological elements in designing with light.

EDCUATION

Study-related Activities 
The Lighting Design Lab is affiliated with the MSc programme in Lighting Design. All researchers teach and supervise the subjects of their research. Students team up with different research groups and projects in the 9th and 10th semesters.

COLLABORATION

Who Benefits from the Research  
The research is of interest to the lighting industry, lighting designers and consultants, municipalities and other owners of hospitals, schools, offices and public transportation.

External Partners 
Tridonic, Fagerhult, Zumtobel, iGuzzini, Chromaviso, Schréder, Holscher Design, Velux, City of Albertslund, City of Roskilde, City of Copenhagen, Sweco, HLA Architects, GXN, Rigshospitalet.