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NORDIC LIGHT & COLOUR
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ABSTRACT
The article: ‘Light as experiential material’ is concerned with
the development of a psychophysical method of investigation,
by which we can approach the experience and design of archi-
tectural lighting in research and education.
To our eyes, light becomes visible in the meeting with sub-
stance, and in this meeting it reveals its characteristics, as it
reveals the matter it meets. Even if light is perceived as visual
account, and therefore belongs to the visual domain, our sen-
sation and perception of light includes a larger complexity of
embodied and cultural processes.
Staged explorative situations offer concrete methods on
psychophysical approaches for the investigation of architec-
tural light design. The psychophysical method in discussion
stages multi-sensory experience and inaugurate evidence on
the basics of experiential accounts. The methods developed
derive from performance and installation art and uses these
art-forms as systematised frameworks and exercising methods
to constitute an embodied and aesthetical approach in the work
with architectural lighting.
LIGHT AS EXPERIENTIAL MATERIAL
Karin Søndergaard & Kjell Yngve Petersen