Sustainable Lighting Design

🎉🎉🎉Episode 9 of the Sustainable Lighting Design podcast “Light Pollution mitigation: bending the curve of biodiversity loss” is now available online. 🎉🎉🎉

In this episode we talk with Dr. Franz Hölker, head of the ”Light Pollution and Ecophysiology” research group
at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries and Assoc. Prof. (PD) of Zoology at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Since 2009, Franz has been investigating the effects of artificial light at night on a wide range of biological processes, from gene expression to ecosystem functioning.
Franz has also been head of the research platform ”Loss of the Night” and chair of the European COST Action ”LoNNe” (Loss of the Night Network).

📢Episode 06 is now live! 💥

The sixth episode of our podcast on sustainable lighting design "Chronobiology : the nature of our circadian rhythm " is now available to listen in all platforms!

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Till Roenneberg about our biological needs for light and darkness, the causes and consequences of Social Jetlag and Daylight Saving Time, and what key features a building should have to support our circadian rhythm.

Dr. Till Roenneberg is the President of the World Federation of Societies for Chronobiology, and former President of the European Society for Rhythms Research. Till has initiated and directed several large national and international research networks and received several international research prizes and has been named “Ambassador of Sleep” by the German Sleep Foundation. He has published more than 200 papers that have been cited more than 21,000 times and has written two books, “Internal Time” and “The Right to Sleep”.

Link in our bio to listen to this episode!

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📢 The first case study, part of our SLD research-in-practice project, is now available online!
Featuring the IKEA store in Kaarst, Germany, this case study takes a closer look into daylight and electric light integration in the retail sector.

With an unconventional design of a retail building, this case study shows the client’s high ambition to build a more sustainable store by integrating natural light and a daylight harvesting system linked to the electric lighting, with the aim to reduce energy consumption and improve the overall store experience for both customers and co-workers. By coupling research, funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and in collaboration with Lund University, an extra step was taken, and post-occupancy evaluations were carried out, showing high satisfaction levels from customers and co-workers, and the potential of further energy savings, which would lead to the better optimization of newly built stores.

We consider this case study inspiring as it sheds light on the importance of working interdisciplinary, coupling daylight and electric light in early stages, as well as the value of post-occupancy evaluations. Furthermore, we also hope this reference inspires more collaborations between industry and academy.

❗️Link in bio to read more about IKEA Kaarst.

🙏🏻We would like to thank Ola Sundelin (Inter IKEA), Niko Gentile (Lund University), and Rafael Campamà Pizarro (PhD student at Lund University) for their contribution and for letting us share their great work with the world. And Zahabia Gandhi for collecting all information. ✨✨✨

🗣Feel free to reach out if you have any comments or questions!

Photos: Rafael Campamà Pizarro ©