Configuring Light/Staging the Social: Dialogues between the social sciences and lighting practices

配置灯光/上演社交：社会科学与照明实践之间的对话

• 批准号: ES/L000970/1
• 负责人: Donald Slater
• 金额: $ 3.87万
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL000970%2F1
• 关键词: Configuring; Light; Staging; Social; Dialogues

Light is a material through which we organize social space; light is the infrastructure of everyday modern life and without it much of what we do and take for granted would not be possible:for example, if we only had natural light, invevitably nightime activities would be severely reduced with a significant impact on the forms of social life that can be sustained. The benefits of our technological manipulation of artificial light are immense: the contemporary city's economy critically depends upon it, heritage and creative industries require it (the lighting of great public buildings an important part of city branding, for example) and much of what constitutes the civil governance of cities (crime, safety and security) takes light as the fundemental basic requirement. Moreover, as part of creative industry, manufacture and maintenance, lighting is a major economic sector. At the same time, the ecological costs of our energy consumption are also hotly debated and are consequently framed within political discourse and public policy, as new lighting technologies and EU regulations attempt to create sustainable energies. In addition, light (and its absence - darkness) are critical to our health, as for example in the regulation of sleep, mood and well-being and can entail significant health reactions if not properly regulated (as highlighted by the case of SAD and by increasing concerns with light pollution. These debates and issues are the broader social context for our seminar series, 'Configuring Light/Staging the Social', which aims to forge an intergrated dialogue between social sciences, design, architecture and urban planning focused on this most fundamental feature of social life. Surprising, given the importance of light as outlined above, there has been little integrated thinking and research on light. While it is a central concern to technicians, architects, engineers or designers and some policy makers, it has largely been ignored or little researched within the social sciences. While it would be seem important to draw academic attention to this most critical social material, practitioners' technical and design knowledge would also benefit from a more rigorous understanding of the social and cultural aspects and impact of their practice. However, thus far, little dialogue has taken place across these different disciplines and between academics and practitioners. Our seminar series aims to both address the gap in social science knowledge about light and put if firmly on the academic agenda within disciplines such as sociology, geography and anthropology, for example; while at the same time to bridge the divide between academic knolwedge and the technical and design knowledge of light engineers, architects and designers and urban planners. This dialogue between social science and practitioners should have considerable impact: our aim is to produce both knowledges and methodologies for better researching the ways in which light is configured and the roles it plays in structuring social life and it is envisaged that these new ways of thinking and working with light will directly impact on those practitioners in indusry and urban planning.

光是我们组织社会空间的材料；光是现代日常生活的基础设施，没有它，我们所做的和认为理所当然的许多事情都将不可能实现：例如，如果我们只有自然光，夜间活动将不可避免地严重减少，从而对夜间活动的形式产生重大影响。社会生活能够持续。我们对人造光进行技术操纵的好处是巨大的：当代城市的经济严重依赖它，遗产和创意产业需要它（例如，大型公共建筑的照明是城市品牌的重要组成部分），以及构成城市品牌的大部分内容。城市的民事治理（犯罪、安全和治安）以轻作为根本的基本要求。此外，作为创意产业、制造和维护的一部分，照明是一个主要的经济部门。与此同时，随着新的照明技术和欧盟法规试图创造可持续能源，能源消耗的生态成本也引起了激烈的争论，并因此被纳入政治话语和公共政策的范围内。此外，光（以及光的缺失 - 黑暗）对我们的健康至关重要，例如在调节睡眠、情绪和幸福感方面，如果调节不当，可能会导致严重的健康反应（正如 SAD 和这些争论和问题为我们的研讨会系列“配置光/舞台社会”提供了更广泛的社会背景，该系列研讨会旨在建立社会科学、设计、建筑和城市规划之间的综合对话。社会生活的最基本特征。令人惊讶的是，鉴于光的重要性，如上所述，尽管它是技术人员、建筑师、工程师或设计师以及一些政策制定者的核心关注点，但人们对光的综合思考和研究却很少。虽然引起学术界对这一最重要的社会材料的关注似乎很重要，但从业者的技术和设计知识也将受益于对其实践的社会和文化方面及其影响的更严格的理解。然而，到目前为止，这些不同学科之间以及学者和从业者之间几乎没有进行对话。我们的研讨会系列旨在解决有关光的社会科学知识的空白，并将其坚定地纳入社会学、地理学和人类学等学科的学术议程；同时弥合学术知识与照明工程师、建筑师、设计师和城市规划师的技术和设计知识之间的鸿沟。社会科学与实践者之间的这种对话应该会产生相当大的影响：我们的目标是提供知识和方法，以便更好地研究光的配置方式及其在构建社会生活中所发挥的作用，并且预计这些新的思维方式与光相关的工作将直接影响工业和城市规划的从业者。