Karagianni, Paschalia

2022-07-05T10:14:18Z

https://repository.ihu.edu.gr//xmlui/handle/11544/29989

lighting fixture

optical perception

variable luminaire

Study of effect that light has on human psychology & design of a mutable lighting fixture based on user preferences.

2022-05-14

free

School of Science and Technology, MSc in Strategic Product Design

Light gives substance and quality to the environment, an environment invisible in its absence. It is understood that on the one hand space and forms are perceived only by the presence of light and on the other hand that the same space and the same forms are perceived differently by human depending on the light that gives them substance. Different lighting creates the same, but not identical, variations of one place. These same but not identical variations create different emotions in the person who perceives them visually. The effect of light and colours on the psychology and mood of human is fact and has been studied thoroughly and in various way. It is therefore obvious that since human is influenced by light, its intensity and colours, with the reversed path he can manage the lighting of a space in order to achieve the desirable mood and psychology. Lighting fixtures are the means of managing the light during the night, which surely are tangible but the final product is a lighting effect without materiality. This lighting effect, however, can change “dramatically” the space which is illuminated, it can “highlight” it, “transform” it or even to “overturn” it completely, not the space itself, concerning the shape the form and its colour, but its sense and perceptual visual representation.

Kyratsis, Panagiotis

ihu