News
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
The DLA Annual Conference 2024 in pictures
How can daylight be harnessed in the service of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? That was the chief question explored at this year’s DLA Annual Conference, which took place from 30-31 May 2024 at the Clarion Hotel in Trondheim. It featured several keynotes and a wide variety of ...
03 June 2024
DLA General Assembly 2024 elects five new members!
The Daylight Academy (DLA) is delighted to welcome five new members, elected at the last General Assembly on 30 May 2024. The new members bring expertise in chronobiology, facial surgery, energy efficient building, architecture and social psychology. The new DLA members are: Prof. Harald ...
17 May 2024
DLA member Till Roenneberg receives The Daylight Award 2024 for Daylight Research
Till Roenneberg was announced as the laureate for Daylight Research at The Daylight Award 2024 ceremony in the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC) in Copenhagen on Thursday. The biennial ceremony took place on the occasion of the UNESCO International Day of Light.
15 May 2024
The Daylight Academy celebrates UNESCO’s International Day of Light
The Daylight Academy celebrates the International Day of Light and strives to find ways through which daylight can help realise the Sustainable Development Goals set out by the United Nations.
05 April 2024
7th edition of the deLIGHTed Talks on light and metabolic health coming soon!
The 7th edition of the deLIGHTed Talks will take place soon on 16 April (15:00-16:30 CEST). Save the date! This online webinar will take place under the title “Time Matters – Shining Light on Metabolic Health”. Charna Dibner, DLA member and expert on circadian endocrinology, will moderate ...
08 March 2024