News
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 ...
09 July 2024
Article exploring DLA project’s new “pyLight” Python module issued as Reprint
The Daylight Academy (DLA) is proud to announce its reprint of a paper produced by the DLA’s “The role of daylight for humans” project. The article was published online earlier this year in The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society (LEUKOS), under the title: “Open-Source Python ...
21 June 2024
“A room with a view” project releases new publication
The Daylight Academy’s “A room with a view” project, has published a new booklet documenting its workshop in the city of Trondheim, Norway. Titled “View Quality Assessment: A Pilot Study of Field Methods”, the publication presents the findings from a workshop evaluating a series of views ...
13 June 2024
“Why daylight should be a priority for urban planning” released as a new issue in the DLA Reprints series!
The DLA is happy to announce the publication of its reprint of “Why daylight should be a priority for urban planning”, a paper produced by the DLA project group “Daylight and green cities”, which was recently published in the Journal of Urban Management. “This publication is the result of ...
05 June 2024