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18 March 2025

New deLIGHTed talks to focus on light and sleep – register now

The 8th edition of the deLIGHTed Talks will be taking place soon on 16 April (15:00-16:30 CEST). Save the date and register now! Register here The online webinar will be exploring how light affects our sleep, alertness and productivity. Distinguished chronobiologist and sleep scientist Dr. Virginie ...

24 January 2025

A new Daylight Conversation is out!

The Daylight Conversations series continues with a dialogue between Juhani Pallasmaa, globally renowned architect, writer, and former chair of The Daylight Award Jury, and Selma Tir, a rising neuroscientist from the University of Oxford and member of The Daylight Award Community. With over six ...

17 January 2025

The Daylight Award will now be presented by the Daylight Academy

The Daylight Academy (DLA) is delighted to announce that, from January 2025, it will be presenting The Daylight Award. The Daylight Award is a biennial award which honours and supports daylight research and daylight in architecture. It acknowledges and encourages scientific knowledge and practical ...

08 November 2024

Daylight Awareness Week 2024 – videos, podcasts and more now available!

The 2024 edition of Daylight Awareness Week was successfully concluded with our first ever series of live public events at Berlin Science Week on 1-2 November. It was the closing of a week packed with content dedicated to exploring the power of daylight as a force for good. You can now access videos...

30 October 2024

Daylight as a right? Join DLA’s new challenge and share your thoughts

The Daylight Academy is hosting a community challenge on the online forum Futures Canvas aimed at exploring the steps can we take to achieve more daylight justice. This challenge takes place in the context of Daylight Awareness Week and Berlin Science Week. It will be open until 20 November, 2024. ...

29 October 2024

Daylight Matters – Our new platform to visualise the importance of daylight

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Daylight Matters, a new online platform designed to share the science behind daylight and show its impact as a whole. Often taken for granted, daylight influences everything it touches – from our well-being and the natural environment to architecture and ...

15 October 2024

Daylight Awareness Week to feature live events in Berlin

The fourth edition of the annual “Daylight Awareness Week” is just behind the corner, running from 28 October to 2 November. This year will be special in that it will also feature live events, organised in partnership with the Berlin Science Week festival. An exhibition exploring how daylight ...

07 October 2024

Daylight Revolution: Daylight Academy’s documentary to premiere in Basel

A full-length documentary exploring daylight and the broad range of ways through which it affects us and our planet is set to premiere at the 6th Global Science Film Festival in Basel on 9 November. It features a wide range of Daylight Academy (DLA) members filmed in picturesque locations where ...

11 September 2024

Obituary Colin Fournier

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Colin Fournier, a brilliant architect and cherished member of the Daylight Academy (DLA). Colin passed away on 4 September 2024, leaving behind a legacy of innovation and visionary architecture.  We were lucky to count him among our founding ...

05 September 2024

Obituary Hans Danuser

It is with great sadness that we learned about the death of our founding member Hans Danuser. He was considered a pioneer of contemporary photography in Switzerland since the 1980s, achieving international recognition with his In Vivo cycle. Throughout his career, he engaged in several ...

19 August 2024

2nd Edition of Interdisciplinary Summer School “Measuring Light and Illumination” in Pictures

The turn of July and August saw the second edition of the Daylight Academy’s (DLA) Interdisciplinary Summer School “Measuring Light and Illumination” take place in Chexbres, Switzerland. You can now look back at the event by accessing our picture gallery on Flickr here!   A total of 22 ...