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21 June 2025
Daylight Awareness Week 2025 – Call for Contributions now open!
As the world needs to move away from fossil fuels, we are entering a new era — one where daylight can play a central role in how we live, work, and care for our planet. Future Solar Societies imagines a world shaped by the power of the sun — not only through solar energy and sustainable ...
16 June 2025
Explore the DLA Annual Conference 2025 through pictures and videos
The Daylight Academy’s Annual Conference 2025 explored ways of how we can translate our growing knowledge of daylight into meaningful action across a range of societal topics. The conference took place from 22-23 May at the Institute for Advanced Study located in the Garching campus of the ...
13 June 2025
Seven new members and four associates join the Daylight Academy
The Daylight Academy (DLA) elected seven new members at its recent General Assembly on 22 May 2025. The new members bring further expertise in the fields of the built environment, daylighting, heritage conservation, environmental psychology, biology, pharmacognosy, biochemistry and chronobiology. &...
16 May 2025
Daylight Academy joins launch of global ‘Light for Public Health’ campaign
The Daylight Academy is delighted to be a founding partner of the Light for Public Health Initiative, a global campaign launching on UNESCO’s International Day of Light, 16 May 2025. The initiative aims to raise public awareness of how light exposure through the eyes affects health and well-being...
16 May 2025
Nominations for The Daylight Award 2026 now open
Nominations for the 2026 edition of The Daylight Award have officially opened. The Daylight Academy, which is presenting the Award for the first time, invites you to nominate distinguished candidates until 15 September, 2025. By celebrating both scientific research and architectural practice, The ...
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