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Experts gather to discuss light and wellbeing in buildings

The online event –  The Future of Daylight and Artificial Lighting in Healthy Built Environments – will explore the latest insights into the future of daylight and artificial lighting in healthy built environments with respect to research, theory, technologies, design and applications. 

The title of this year’s Light Symposium Wismar 2020/21 event acknowledges a world that is changing dramatically, with human health and well-being at the forefront of global interest and concern. 

The impact of illumination and the opportunities this presents are hard to define right now, which is why they are the subject of our debate. 

Also, today and in the future, daylight and architectural lighting design need to better acknowledge the need for interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists, medical researchers, the lighting industry, and lighting designers. Therefore, education and continuing education in the form of such an event is, and will remain, the basis for all developments in the field of lighting design as a discipline and profession.

The LSW 2020/21 will be held from Wednesday 10 March through to Friday, 12 March 2021. 

The original date in October 2020, which was planned to be a face-to-face event at Wismar University, Germany, was postponed to March 2021, to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. 

However, this symposium will take place on the Zoom online platform.

Fifteen renowned speakers from countries including Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Great Britain (UK) and the United States of America (USA), with insights about their field of expertise (architecture, daylight, lighting design, environmental science, biology, astronomy, and medical science) will present talks related to research and practice.

This year there will be four keynote speakers who will present as follows: Assoc. Prof. Marie-Claude Dubois from the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University, Sweden, and then Prof. Dr. George C. Brainard from US-based Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University, will present their talks on Thursday 11 March. 

Then Mark Major, the lighting designer and founding partner of the multi-award winning international design practice Speirs Major from the UK will speak, followed by Prof. Dr. Eva Schernhammer from the Medical University of Vienna, Center for Public Health in Austria, on Friday 12 March.