Light Projection_01
Creators:
Armin Warnecke
Curator's Note
Updated: October 2021
LP_01 is the next generation of public lighting. It enables flexible, future urban development and resident-city-interaction. The new system of LP_01 can adapt and be configured to various scenarios ranging from flee markets and wholesale markets to street festivals with their individual needs and requirements. The combination of customized lighting and electricity infrastructure offers highly divers possibilities of customization for residents as well as cities. The project formulates a perspective for a coming change: from anonymous city infrastructures to interactive public interfaces.
Further Developments:
Abstract
99% of all Europeans live under light polluted skies. Light pollution is one of the most rapidly increasing types of environmental degradation. With its epicenter in urban areas, which themselves are expected to grow extensively in the next decades, the current use artificial light may affect the environment and human health more than assumed in the past.
How the light is distributed; current lighting infrastructure on the left, vs. LP_01 on the right.
Looking back into the history of artificial public lighting it becomes clear that the main drivers for today’s use of light were not the need for more light in the public pedestrian areas but the technology that enabled it and the mobility that needed better visibility for higher speeds. The missing adaptation to modern society has put the artificial public lighting infrastructure in a position where it will soon be obsolete, if not already.
Car free cities emerge around the globe and transform “streetlights” into silent spectators, incapable of providing adequate services. How can the needs of a modern, urban society change the way we think about public infrastructure and how can the findings of light pollution studies be applied to the lighting technology to design a public space for living and not moving through it?
„Light pollution is one of the most rapidly increasing types of environmental degradation“
This project aims to improve the use of light in public urban areas by introducing state–of-the-art lighting technology, interactive components to the infrastructure and a radical reduction of the artificial light used on streets at night. The reduction of light is achieved by a new kind of lighting technology out of the mobility sector which can illuminate public areas and spaces more precisely and efficiently.
The primary light source can be customized digitally and, if needed, covers most of the area around LP_01.
The infrastructures flexibility is based on a smart grid socket in which the infrastructure can be placed locked. This action requires mobile units to carry, install, fix and rearrange the infrastructure based on the scheduled use of the specific space.
