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29 October 2018

Time to change – but only to ‘wintertime’

by Johanna Meijer, Leiden University, the Netherlands & Oxford University, UK and Russell Foster, Oxford University, UK In August, the European Union voted to abolish the bi-annual change in clock time. Whether the continent will be in constant wintertime or summertime remains to be decided. In ...

14 October 2018

Applications Open for Winter School on daylight

The next ETH Sustainability Winter School will be organised in partnership with the Daylight Academy on the topic “Daylight in the context of ecosystems, human health and architecture”. The lectures and workshops will take place from 13 to 19 January 2019 on the beautiful mountain Rigi ...

21 August 2018

Winter School on daylight

The next ETH Sustainability Winter School will be organised in partnership with the Daylight Academy on the topic “Daylight in the context of ecosystems, human health and architecture”. The lectures and workshops will take place from 13 to 19 January 2019 on the beautiful mountain Rigi ...

09 July 2018

“Clocks & Sleep” – New Open Access Journal

The journal Clocks & Sleep (C & S) is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal. Clocks & Sleep offers peer-reviewed original research covering all aspects of biological rhythms and sleep, assessed in all organisms, cell cultures as well as in clinical human studies. ...

07 June 2018

DLA member Olafur Eliasson exhibits in Zurich

Artist Olafur Eliasson, member of the Daylight Academy, has been invited to contribute to the Zurich Art Weekend, which takes place from 8 to 10 June 2018. During this weekend, museums, art centres, foundations, international galleries and offspaces will open their doors to propose a rich program of...

28 May 2018

The laureates of the Daylight Award 2018 are…

…the Japanese architect Hiroshi Sambuichi and the American researcher Greg Ward. They were officially announced on 16 May, the UNESCO International Day of Light. The award ceremony will take place on 27 September 2018 at the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, Switzerland.

16 May 2018

Today is International Day of Light!

Celebrated today for the first time, the International Day of Light is a global initiative that provides an annual focal point for the continued appreciation of light. Activities highlighting the role of light in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields as ...

23 April 2018

Sun exposure over the life course and associations with multiple sclerosis

The Neurology issue of March 7 reports the interesting finding that living in a high UV-B area and having high summer sun exposure appears to have a stronger association with reduced future risk for multiple sclerosis (MS).

18 April 2018

“The Best Disinfectant Is Sunlight”, blog post by Richard Hobday

“We spend, on average, more than 90% of our time indoors. Most of this time is now spent in our homes. The impact of such behavior on our health is largely unknown. But we do know that lighting levels inside houses are much lower than those outside – unless our homes let in the sun. Without ...

17 April 2018

First annual report of the Daylight Academy now available!

The Daylight Academy has accomplished some promising achievements in its first year after it was inaugurated in November 2016. Driven by the expertise of its dedicated steering committee and its 65 founding members, the Daylight Academy has grown into an international and interdisciplinary network ...

17 April 2018

Innovative windows improving lighting inside buildings

The group “Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Conversion” of the EPFL, conducted by the DLA member Andreas Schüler, is developping an advanced glazing system which should contribute to significantly reduce the energy consumption in buildings with favourably oriented glass façades. In ...