Lights out? Lowering urban lighting levels and increasing atmosphere at a Danish tram station
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Lights out? Lowering urban lighting levels and increasing atmosphere at a Danish tram station. / Hvass, Mette; Waltorp, Karen; Hansen, Ellen Kathrine.
Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces. ed. / Shanti Sumartojo. Taylor and Francis/Routledge, 2022. p. 151-172.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Lights out? Lowering urban lighting levels and increasing atmosphere at a Danish tram station
AU - Hvass, Mette
AU - Waltorp, Karen
AU - Hansen, Ellen Kathrine
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Shanti Sumartojo; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - This study explores how lighting levels influence people’s experience of space and social interactions in waiting areas for public transportation after dark. Existing insights regarding the effects of lighting levels are often limited to their compliance with technical and regulatory requirements, and seldom address how they feel. In an architectural experiment, we compare and contrast people’s perceptions of their immediate surroundings in existing lighting and with dimmed lighting through comparative go-along interviews at a Danish inner-city tram station, using multimodal visual and sensory ethnographic methods. Drawing on anthropological and architectural theory and methods, we reveal findings that indicate that lower lighting levels can sharpen our senses and create a more relaxed experience and atmosphere, dwelling on the paradox of darkness being linked to both beauty and fear in the multisensory experience of nocturnal urban changes. The lower lighting levels, we show, enriches perceptions of - and connection with - the surroundings and increase (perceived) safety.
AB - This study explores how lighting levels influence people’s experience of space and social interactions in waiting areas for public transportation after dark. Existing insights regarding the effects of lighting levels are often limited to their compliance with technical and regulatory requirements, and seldom address how they feel. In an architectural experiment, we compare and contrast people’s perceptions of their immediate surroundings in existing lighting and with dimmed lighting through comparative go-along interviews at a Danish inner-city tram station, using multimodal visual and sensory ethnographic methods. Drawing on anthropological and architectural theory and methods, we reveal findings that indicate that lower lighting levels can sharpen our senses and create a more relaxed experience and atmosphere, dwelling on the paradox of darkness being linked to both beauty and fear in the multisensory experience of nocturnal urban changes. The lower lighting levels, we show, enriches perceptions of - and connection with - the surroundings and increase (perceived) safety.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Built Environment
KW - Urban Studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85144477790&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003182610-8
DO - 10.4324/9781003182610-8
M3 - Book chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85144477790
SN - 9781032022642
SP - 151
EP - 172
BT - Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces
A2 - Sumartojo, Shanti
PB - Taylor and Francis/Routledge
ER -
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