"Colour By Numbers" is a permanent light installation at Telefonplan, in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes citizens' participation in shaping the nocturnal image of the area.
It is a statement about the use of the public ...
Colour By Numbers
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Urban Matter in collaboration with the Department of Transportation in NY have created an interactive light installation that transformed the dark noise area of Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
The pedestrians and the car ...
Silent Lights
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"Digital Wattle" is a light installation by Out of the Dark company,
that synthesizes the Australia's floral emblem with Singapore's urban environment.
As the wind sways the flowers, their colours are changing from ...
Digital Wattle
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The exhibition "Klimt and Vienna, a century of gold and colors" is a great example of how light can create an experience of an era! Since Klimt's artworks cannot be everywhere at the same time, Carrieres de Lumieres ...
Klimt projection revival
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Global Rainbow is a mobile installation by Yvette Mattern, originally produced for Wall Street in 2009 for Martin Luther King Jr Day. Since then many cities around the world experienced their own version of this ...
a Rainbow over the city
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Loss of Night is a citizen science project that measures light pollution is different parts of the world. Verlust der Nacht developed an app, that based on the Google Sky maps, it asks users of the app to find different ...
Loss of Night app
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Students of the Institute of Advanced Architecture in Catalonia prototyped a photovoltaic panel made out of soil and bacteria. The bacteria is fed by-products from the photosynthesis of plants, releasing hydrogen protons and ...
Photovoltaics out of Bacteria
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Roig is a lighting intervention in a closed ,dark and mystical courtyard attached to the old city wall of Barcelona. It was realized in the framework of Llum BCN 2014 by Antoni ...
Roig by Antoni Arola
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Last but not least, what our Greek speakers had to say on the changes necessary to make urban lighting more interesting, effective and diverse.
Urban Lightscapes Symposium was a great occasion to collect their ...
Interviews – changes in urban lighting
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Landscape (Triptych) is an installation set up in the front window of the Center for Architecture in New York City by Abbruzzo Bodziak Architects. The installation utilizes technical rope and energy-efficient ...
Landscape (Triptych) by Abbruzzo Bodziak Architects
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One or our goals with Urban Lightscapes is to see what we have to change when it comes to lighting in our cities to improve the urban environment and the quality of life. We asked the Urban Lightscapes Symposium ...
Interviews – How should urban lighting change?
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The Ivanpah Electric Generating System by NRG Energy, Google and BrightSource, is now open for business.
Ivanpah is located in desert land near California - Nevada border and it is the largest solar thermal power tower ...
Ivanpah, the world’s largest solar power system is now open!
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