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Progetto Seety Milano: strumento di partecipazione all’illuminazione urbana; - Concorso internazionale Call for ideas La Città Open Source [spazio pubblico| networks | social innovation]
No full textL’illuminazione urbana notturna ha assunto recentemente un’importanza fondamentale e dunque necessita di un approfondimento progettuale qualitativo che rifletta maggiormente sul rapporto uomo-luce-città. La luce in città non può occuparsi soltanto di temi riguardanti il risparmio energetico ma, dal momento che è primariamente intesa per i suoi abitanti, deve necessariamente focalizzarsi sulla specificità dei luoghi e sulla centralità dell'utente: la luce può incentivare fenomeni di comunicazione, ridefinire l’estetica della città, essere un utile strumento di connessione sociale tra gli individui e contribuire alla riconquista dello spazio pubblico.
Il progettista della luce della città è chiamato a reinterpretare la luce urbana attraverso gli occhi del cittadino, ovvero a comprendere la città vissuta e percepita dagli abitanti stessi. Il ruolo sociale del progettista è volto alla comprensione della città modellata dalle persone che vivono gli spazi e non a quella disegnata secondo le direttive delle autorità e dei regolamenti: dal masterplan della luce calato dall’alto, si auspica ad un progetto dell’illuminazione partecipata in cui i punti di vista collettivi e individuali possono essere molto più significativi sia per una comprensione sull’ della città sia a livello progettuale.
Seety è
• un esperimento di rilevazione di esperienze, percezioni, sensazioni interne e affettive, impressioni atmosferiche dell’illuminazione urbana su base partecipativa “mediata” attraverso l’uso di internet;
• un invito collettivo e condiviso ad osservare la città di notte e riflettere sulla sua illuminazione urbana in maniera partecipata;
• uno strumento nato perché il cittadino divenga parte attiva del progetto di fare luce sulla propria città notturna;
• un mezzo educativo per promuovere l’importanza di un’illuminazione di qualità basata sulla dimensione umana;
• un approccio di riqualificazione partecipata dell’illuminazione della propria città partendo da una riflessione consapevole e critica di chi la abita.
• un viaggio esperienziale visivo per esplorare l’atmosfera luminosa della Milano notturna.
Il progetto pilota di SEETY è partito a Milano ma è stato pensato come uno strumento adattabile ad altre città o porzioni di esse (quartieri, piazze e strade) ma soprattutto come strumento di partecipazione alla riprogettazione in microscala della qualità luminosa di un luogo.
SEETY permette una partecipazione virtuale mediata attraverso l’utilizzo di internet: i risultati verranno analizzati sia a livello qualitativo e quantitativo per derivare una mappatura più completa dell’esperienza della luce notturna urbana. In particolare i criteri di valutazione di tale strumento permetteranno di comprendere l’interesse da parte dei cittadini nei confronti dell’illuminazione urbana nonché di approfondire alcune tematiche interessanti per la progettazione dell’illuminazione
Are citizens interested in their lit cities? A series of urban lighting impressions
No full textUrban lighting is nowadays a widespread issue, above all because of the general period of global economic crisis and subsequent required energetic savings. Many governments are officially and unofficially asking for decreasing the quantity of urban lighting or completely turning it off due to public costs reduction. If only energy and costs issues are taken into account in urban lighting decisions, the lighting experience of the city risks detrimental effects on its conviviality, sociability and relational trust of the citizens. A different approach could be based on the design of the pattern of lighting based on people activities, evaluation and experience of the night-time environment. To achieve these results, lighting design has to reflect on the social landscape of the city in order to understand the experience and affective components of perception by its inhabitants: the evaluative and emotional response of people toward the luminous urban environment. Our hypothesis is that people are able to establish a strong relationship with their nocturnal city and are also interested in urban lighting. How to access the citizens lighting atmospheric perception? Are new technological media based on the web 2.0 useful for this participation and engaging process? This paper aims to investigate and make visible this perceptive layer of the lit city with an experiment based on citizens participation to access the lit Atmosphere of the Urban Nighttime of the city of Milan. The experiment was structured in three main phases: firstly an on-site observation, investigation and collection of urban places was conducted in order to detect where people prefer to go, to stay and to congregate during the Nighttime of Milan. The second phase was an open survey based on the web: people were allowed to navigate virtually the city through its nocturnal images, answering a series of questions about the perception of the atmosphere of the luminous environment. The final phase was the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative information about Lighting Impressions of the city. SEETY was useful to define qualitative insights for the perceived atmosphere of Milan’s spaces where people want to be in, congregate and remember. It could be implemented for a urban lighting masterplan based on a social approach
Atlas of Urban Lighting Experience 2.0- Concorso internazionale "VOX JUVENTA 2012 - Light Symposium in Wismar, Germany" - progetto vincitore
No full textLife and identity of the cities all over the world are shaped by light in different ways. As a consequence cities are lived and experienced by people in different ways because the nocturnal lit cityscape affect people’s behaviours, feelings, thoughts, attitudes. Today, the night in the public realm of the city, has been deeply contaminated by functional and uniform lighting systems transforming the cities in highly bright environment for safety reasons but disabling the darkness perception. The superimposed light poles, while striving to obtain energy-efficient lighting, afflict people, animals and plants with light pollution. The general increase of light, actually, has not provided better places to live in. Conversely, light has a cognitive, aesthetic and symbolic role and citizens ask for more various lighting systems in order to increase the experience of the public urban space. If we just observe the urban lit environment, we understand that this lighting richness is already present in several micro examples that are more appreciated by people (examples: coloured reflections of lights, flicking billboards and old neon signs, illumination of trees).
RESEARCH QUESTION
The background statement is that urban lighting is a positive tool for people engagement, relational trust and people-city relationship restoration but there are few applied studies to support this understanding. This research claims at investigating what kind of lighting performances do meet people's preference and interest and what kind of feelings these elicit. What is the relationship between the perceived attributes of lighting and emotional appraisals, which variables of lighting are salient to people for liking or disliking a lit urban scene.
METHOD
The research is based on a multiple-method survey mediated with the web: it is an ongoing virtual, indirect survey based on the observation of lighting stimuli in order to grasp the diverse experience of urban lighting environments from around the world. It is mainly a netnography followed by a survey using lighting pictures (stimuli) in order to understand meaningful perceptions and imagery of the users about the lit cities. Lighting stimuli were derived from the most used web photo sharing databases (such as Flickr, Panoramio, Picasa) and were chosen into in thematic groups (such as Night Images Group, Urban Night Shots, etc) and selected by setting several features. The most clicked, viewed cited and commented were chosen in order to understand the preference. Added comments provided information about the individual experience and perception of lit cities. The general aim was to review the present state of urban environmental lighting, exploring what lit scenes people are selecting to record and, once published, what king of lighting features are the most viewed and commented.
RESULTS
Urban lighting analysis should be focused more on qualitative aspects in order to satisfy the perception of the city at night: this research explore what lighting features in actual use are preferred by people instead of relying on theories and normative. The results are represented with visual tools in a world map that show trends of similar attitude, perceptions and preference about lighting features. The achievements can be transferred into lighting design guidelines in order to support the design process for the creation of better lit cities. The research show that, urban lighting has a growing potential of changing the human experience of the urban nightscape by reflecting more on the relationship between people-light-city
An applied research to assess the experience of the colour of urban lighting: a pilot study in Milano downtown
No full textELSE, Experience of Lighting Sustainability in the Environment
No full textSustainability calls for a social, environmental and economical approach. On the contrary, the traditional idea of sustainable urban lighting is based just on economical and environmental-technical aspects. Because lighting is primarily intended for people, urban lighting should be focused on the human experience with a qualitative social engaging role. The analytical phase of the research is based on a multiple-method survey strategy: ELSE is a virtual, indirect visual survey based on the observation of lighting stimuli in order to evaluate, from a collective point of view, the social sustainability of the public urban lighting. This paper presents the starting results of the on-going study about the social sustainable lighting: data shows that people demands for a deeper experience of social participation, safety perception and energy savings with the meaningful use of interactive and colourful layered lighting effects
The colour of lighting as a new tool to design urban interiors: the transformation of underground spaces of the cities
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