Interacting with the Social Human-Scale Lightscape

This chapter presents two case studies of experience prototyping that has been designed as experimental lighting probes. They were conducted both in the field and in the laboratory to explore and evaluate design ideas. The chapter has an exploratory natur

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Daria Casciani

The Human and Social Dimension of Urban Lightscapes

SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology PoliMI SpringerBriefs

Editorial Board Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Stefano Della Torre, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Bianca M. Colosimo, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Tiziano Faravelli, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Roberto Paolucci, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Silvia Piardi, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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Daria Casciani

The Human and Social Dimension of Urban Lightscapes

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Daria Casciani Department of Design Politecnico di Milano Milan, Italy

ISSN 2191-530X ISSN 2191-5318 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology ISSN 2282-2577 ISSN 2282-2585 (electronic) PoliMI SpringerBriefs ISBN 978-3-030-57164-1 ISBN 978-3-030-57165-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57165-8 © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

To my Masters and to my beloved ones. To Achille.

Preface

In recent years, the human and social dimension of urban lightscape has become a new theme of interest of both research and design practice in the lighting domain. The focus of this book is to explore new criteria and characteristics of the humanand social-scale lighting by considering human psychology in the design of the lighting of modern nocturnal cities. The book identifies a new area of lighting design research and practice that focus on the nocturnal urban experience of people in terms of emotional and cogn