Thursday, 22 May 2025
from 15:30 to 17:00
Lead
Prof. Barbara Szybinska Matusiak, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Prof. Klaus Martiny, Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr Natalia Sokol, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Filomena Russo, University of Cambridge, UK
Description
The DLA project “A room with a view” was initiated out of a deep conviction about the importance of a window view for the health and well-being of building users. As a result of this project, two journal articles and a booklet have been published.
In this session, the results from the two research papers by the project team will be presented, followed by an interactive workshop where interdisciplinary groups of participants will work together, applying mixed method assessments of window views.
SPACE: room with windows and views out.
TOOLS: luxmeters, mobile phones with camera, printed room plans, A4 paper and pencils/ballpoint pens, interactive anonymized live online questions via Mentimeter / Slido, and free mobile phone Apps.
All tools will be provided but participants are asked to download the following free luminance capture app – Fusion Optix1 – on their mobile phones (at least one person per group). Participants need to have access to the internet during the workshop.
Objectives
This workshop aims to delve into methods of assessing window views to the outside and the visual environment within the room itself. The quality attributes proposed and tested in our research will be applied during the workshop, along with photography, freehand drawing and light measurements.
The workshop also explores the differences between lighting professionals using words together with technical concepts and specialists from different backgrounds who use everyday language to describe the visual environment. Is it possible to bridge the gap between groups with help from varied methods and newly developed apps?
1Fusion Optix app (download the FREE version)
IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brightminds-luminance-camera/id1449237565
Note: there is also an Android version of this App