This blog is a project blog initiated to share the experimental work and methods in the field of RESPONSIVE URBAN LIGHTING (RUL). The forum is initiated by researchers from the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technologies at Aalborg University and part of the The Cluster for Mobility and Tracking Technologies (MoTT).
When we know how people are using the space, then how can we make the space adapt in a beautiful way? And by doing so would we then be able to improve the energy performance and the efficiency up to 80%?
How can we design beautiful, interesting, engaging types of responsive lightings and public environments? Which design methods and concepts should be utilized in the exploration of this new paradigm of design?
Responsive Urban Lighting is an interdisciplinary research forum, which search to develop new knowledge in the overall responsive lighting in the so-called Smart City. We are interested in the exploration of new design techniques and methodologies that qualify illumination performance in the intelligent environments. Light designs that utilize sensor and control techniques and technologies to present an adaptive and flexible lighting. The responsive lighting paradigm presents new challenges to the design as well as to the engineering of the near future responsive light solutions.
I. Develop design strategies for a safe, effective and beautiful lighting in the Smart city.
II. Tracking and location based technologies
III. Representation of location-based data
IV. Theorizing the meaning of location based technologies in the society.
IV. Ethics, Surveillance and New Tracking Technologies
The work thereby span the exploration and application of new technologies, methodological innovations related to these, as well as the development of theories and explanatory models to enhance the understanding of these technologies and their societal importance and impact.
We celebrate a culture of making and investigate out hypothesis in a collaborative research culture using the experiment and the contemporary hypothesis as the scientific focal point. We are constantly on the look-out for new interesting collaborations.