Light London
'Gill Sans', Ron Haselden with architects Robert Ian Barnes and Taeko Matsumoto, 2002 – ongoing, LB Southwark, London. Commissioned by Southwark Council through an initiative from the Local Residents Association and the Council. Photo: Ron Haselden. More info.
Light London is a city-wide research initiative to strategically influence the capital’s public realm policy and its creative opportunities through the theme of light.
Light can dramatically effect how we feel about and experience the city. With London’s renewed focus on the public realm, the capital has the opportunity for permanent lighting schemes to animate our public spaces and historic environment, alongside temporary installations as part of wider environmental changes.
Light London is a programme of forums and resources to inform London’s policy and support more imaginative approaches. Unusually, its forums have brought together an invited mix of artists, architects, lighting designers, local authorities, key London agencies, developers and others, to encourage a multi-disciplinary, strategic approach. A Light London Working Group has now been developed to represent these various viewpoints and to look at how to take the initiative, and particularly the Light London Principles, forward.
Download a copy of the Light London Principles leaflet on the Art in the Open publications page.
Download PDFs of further information on Light London:
- Background
- Visioning Forum
- Case Studies
- Cultural, Social & Environmental
- Sustainability & Creativity
- Future Generation
- References
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