Configuring Light/Staging the Social

Configuring Light/Staging the Social A research programme led by Don Slater (LSE) and Joanne Entwistle (Kings) You can download the project brief here.

Light is a material through which we organize social space; light is the infrastructure of everyday life. The Configuring Light research programme aims to look at the different knowledges, practices and technologies through which we use and understand light – in everyday life, urban planning and design, energy and environmental action, cultural forms. Crossing boundaries between social sciences, h

umanities, architecture and technology, Configuring Light aims to develop new concepts, methods and information to understand light as material culture. The assumptions at the core of the project are twofold:

Light consumption has a greater impact on energy use than any other single social practice; changes in light use stemming from new knowledges and methodologies can make a huge environmental and economic contribution. Light, as a fundamental feature of social life and of design, provides grounds for deeper methodological integration between social sciences and design disciplines, with possibilities of dramatic changes of practice on both sides of this divide.

09/01/2026
Day 1 of the Social Lightscapes CDMX workshop.
09/01/2026

Day 1 of the Social Lightscapes CDMX workshop.

Applications are now open for our Bangkok social research lighting workshop 12-15 January. Please read the flyer for fur...
08/11/2023

Applications are now open for our Bangkok social research lighting workshop 12-15 January. Please read the flyer for further details of the application process.

CALL for APPLICATIONS (open to lighting and urban professionals of India, South and South East Asia): "Social Lighting a...
27/10/2023

CALL for APPLICATIONS (open to lighting and urban professionals of India, South and South East Asia): "Social Lighting and urban design workshop", Bangkok, 12-15 January 2024
Configuring Light is really pleased to share this amazing opportunity.
Apply! We are looking forward to seeing you all in Bangkok!
With LSE Sociology , King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi LRIC - Lighting Research and Innovation Centre +D +D LUCI Association Fund LSE

03/07/2023
Lights are now on at our ENLIGHTENme installation in Piazza Lambrakis, Bologna. This is the product of a year's work of ...
03/07/2023

Lights are now on at our ENLIGHTENme installation in Piazza Lambrakis, Bologna. This is the product of a year's work of social research and co-design with the residents in Savena who turned out in great numbers for switch on 6 June. This year-long lighting intervention will be the focus of ongoing research. The lights can be dimmed and colour tuned from a phone app - watch this space! The lights go on in our two other cities, Tartu and Amsterdam in September. For information, check out our website https://www.configuringlight.org/klin_portfolio/enlightenme-horizon-2020/ and also https://www.enlightenme-project.eu/

To find out about Configuring Light's social research work on Brandon 3 estate in Southwark, and beautiful lights design...
02/12/2021

To find out about Configuring Light's social research work on Brandon 3 estate in Southwark, and beautiful lights designed by Elettra Bordonaro for Light Follows Behaviour have a look at our film by the fantastic director James Rattee

Compare the moody atmosphere of a well-lit heritage district with the bright flood-lighting of a council estate: light codes the city, telling a story of une...

Photos from our recent night walk on Brandon 3 estate with residents and Southwark Council Stephanie Cyran Cabinet Membe...
02/12/2021

Photos from our recent night walk on Brandon 3 estate with residents and Southwark Council Stephanie Cyran Cabinet Member for Council Homes and Homelessness and Alice MacDonald Cabinet Member for Equalities, Neighbourhoods and Leisure. If you happen to be in Southwark, check out the new lights in Grimsel Path designed by Elettra Bordonaro Light Follows Behaviour with social research from team.

To find out more about our work on Brandon 3, you can watch this film by James Rattee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQMtoFSnAI4

Really exciting webinar last week - Saving the Night, on London and light, with special thanks to Mark Major and Alex Li...
22/06/2020

Really exciting webinar last week - Saving the Night, on London and light, with special thanks to Mark Major and Alex Lifshutz. It's not about turning off lights, but making better nights. Over 260 people joined in - lighting has clearly gone much higher up the urban agenda.

A recording of the webinar is now available at https://vimeo.com/430701141

Do have a listen!

As part of the London Festival of Architecture, Saving the Night - rebalancing of light and darkness. The webinar focuses on issues around public lighting in London…

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