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29 September 2021
Second edition of deLIGHTed Talks: Good Light – Good Life in Wintertime
DeLIGHTed Talks goes into a second round, this time with the topic: Good Light – Good Life in Wintertime. The program of this edition features talks by Professor Till Roenneberg and DLA member Dr Manuel Spitschan about daylight saving time and how to cope with the dark period of the year. If ...
31 August 2021
Blogposts with Q&A’s from the Daylight Awareness Week 2021
The Daylight Awareness Week 2021 was a real success: almost 400 people from all over the world signed up and lively exchanges took place between them and the speakers. Many exciting questions came up, and as a certain number of them could not be answered during the event, we decided to invite the ...
10 August 2021
“Enlighten your clock” – New comic book out
Our DLA member Manuel Spitschan and Coline Weinzaepflen have published the comic book “Enlighten your clock: How your body tells time”! The full pdf version can be downloaded online and will soon be available in a printed version, and in several languages. In the story, a cat guides the ...
07 July 2021
ABOUT LIGHT – A video project by Siegrun Appelt
Let’s talk ABOUT LIGHT! On the occasion of the DLA Annual Conference 2019 in Zurich, artist Siegrun Appelt conducted short interviews with some of the conference participants. The idea behind this was to have various specialists talk about their professional and emotional approach to the ...
30 June 2021
Meet The Daylight Award jury 2022!
The Daylight Award presents its new jury who will select the next year’s laureates (nominations are accepted until 30 September 2021)! With this bi-annual award the three founding foundations, VILLUM FONDEN, VELUX FONDEN and VELUX FOUNDATIONS, strive to raise a holistic understanding of ...
15 June 2021
Art installation LEBENSRAUM
Siegrun Appelt has created an art installation as part of the Vienna Biennale for Change 2021, which can be viewed at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) from 28 May to 03 October. The work is questioning whether a balance can be found between the preservation of nature and its use by man. The ...
04 June 2021
New office and new team member for the Daylight Academy!
The Daylight Academy (DLA) and the Velux Stiftung are delighted to announce that Viola Lorenz has just joined the DLA team in Zurich as an intern. We very much look forward to working with her and benefiting from her new and fresh ideas. Welcome, Viola! Viola has a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing...
04 June 2021
Daylight Awareness Week – Videos now available!
The Daylight Awareness Week took place on the 25, 26 and 27 May 2021, a huge thank you to all the international and interdisciplinary speakers who made it so sucessful! Together we explored “Three reasons why we need daylight”. We are happy to share the videos with you on our website or ...
17 May 2021
DeLIGHTed Talks: Mirjam Münch’s lecture now available
To celebrate the UNESCO International Day of Light, the Daylight Academy contributed to the virtual public event “DeLIGHTed Talks: Good Light – Good Life”. This event aimed to inform and raise awareness about the importance of “good light”, defined as natural light or artificial light ...
16 May 2021
Nominations for the Daylight Award 2022 are open!
The Daylight Award honours and supports daylight research and daylight in architecture, for the benefit of human health, well-being and the environment. The award places specific emphasis on the interrelation between theory and practice. Professional organisations, architects, researchers and other ...
14 May 2021