Sunday
Sep182011

LIGHT & OBJECTS

DateSep 18, 2011 at 20:49

The bootcamp week formed an inspiration for what I see around me in the city of Eindhoven.

What kind of lighting is there visible or invisibly present?

For what purposes are these lights used in the different places?

With these questions in mind, I ask myself how light can have an influence on the human behaviour with (normal) objects.

I am also looking forward to get more inspiration and see interesting projects evolve during the GLOW module, starting next week!

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Sunday
Sep182011

Lights on paper

DateSep 18, 2011 at 18:48

In the last few years one of my passion (next to design) was photography. Capturing a moment, a place or a person. Whatever photo you take (concert, street, monument, exhibition, model, sport event) lights always helps to focus on the subject in any context. But when does this attention turns into emotion and becomes a light soft, hard, boring, interesting, expressive or motivating.

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Sunday
Sep182011

OPENLIGHT BEIJING: Lost in Beijing

DateSep 18, 2011 at 13:44

Xiaohua is one of the 30% of the Beijing population without a Beijing ID.

Like many, he comes from smaller cities and villages, looking for opportunities in this metropolis.

In Beijing, far from their family and culture, he can get lost in the crowd. 

To be able to survive, he works more than double-time.

He has hardly any time to express his individual skills, creativity and background culture.

He doesn't feel home in Beijing. It is too big, he feels lost.

In his dreams, he wishes to go back to his hometown, in the countryside.  

What can help him to find his way in Beijing and make him feel at home?

 

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Sunday
Sep182011

OPENLIGHT BEIJING: QUICK RELAX

DateSep 18, 2011 at 12:43

Limin drives her car through Beijing during the night in order to find some 'peace in the eyes'

She is not going anywhere, but needs a quiet place and moving lights to distract her attention

Wenqi He is 13 years old and goes to school. She finds it intense, but has to.

Everyday, she gets a few times 5 minutes to relax: sporting exercises and eye exercises.

Beijing is in competitive mode. It is hard to be in control of oneself, and one's own body.

How can we make most out of the wasted moments that this could be possible?

Can lighting help here? Can we help people to address the ancient saying 'to find peace in the crowd'?

 

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Friday
Sep162011

OPENLIGHT BEIJING: WATTS MATTER

DateSep 16, 2011 at 8:18

For Guan and her family, WATTS matter.

She could tell us at work that she had a 12W bulb in her house.

In the countryside she has 25W, because energy is cheaper.

Less Watts means more money to save for the children. 

Guan is a cleaner at a school.

Even at School, she is extremely energy conscious.

Could her eagerness help the city to become more energy efficient?

Or could she help to turn wasteful light (advertisements) into useful light (improving the safety of her bicycle ride home?)


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