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17 December 2019
DLA Summer School: call for applications
This is your opportunity to apply for the Interdisciplinary Summer School “Measuring Natural Illumination” organised by the Daylight Academy (20-24 July 2020). Using Horace Bénédict de Saussure’s cyanometer (1789) for measuring the colour of the sky as a starting point, you will develop an...
13 December 2019
Online Art Exhibition: DAYLIGHT
This exhibition has been realised by members of the University of Regensburg as part of the DLA project “Materials responding to daylight”. Perspectives from science, art, economy, society and politics are made visible in these works and stimulate each other. In this way, differences and...
29 November 2019
DLA Annual Conference 2019: presentations and photos now available!
This year’s DLA Annual Conference attracted almost 100 participants and placed particularly emphasis on how scientists and artists can learn from each other. The exchanges were lively and inspiring and new project ideas were developed. Discover or rediscover key moments through the ...
27 November 2019
How about cooking with sunlight?
EPFL scientists have developed a glass-paneled solar cooker that delivers exceptional performance. Their patented design can operate an average of 155 days a year in Switzerland’s cloudiest regions and up to 240 days in its sunniest. “We believe our cooker could help reduce the load on ...
14 November 2019
Message from Olafur Eliasson for the DLA Annual Conference 2019
Olafur Eliasson, founding member of the Daylight Academy, could participate remotely to the Daylight Academy Conference 2019, Expanding Horizons: Can Art Enlighten Science? In this video Olafur Eliasson presents what daylight represents for him in his artistic research and how he sees the role of ...
22 October 2019
Virtual Symposium “Materials responding to daylight”: videos now online
(Day)light can cause many different responses. In three short presentations, the webinar explores how light makes plants move, can induce physiological effects and change the properties of materials in buildings. The interdisciplinary view on a common phenomenon may help to inspire new approaches in...
30 September 2019
Daylight levels affect our thermal perception
A pioneering study carried out at EPFL shows that the amount of daylight in a room can influence our thermal comfort and how well we tolerate heat or cold. The findings could be used to improve existing building standards and decrease energy consumption. The study has been published in Scientific ...
27 September 2019
The Daylight Award 2020: call for nominations
The Daylight Award is organised by the non-profit, private charitable foundations, VILLUM FONDEN and VELUX FONDEN from Denmark and VELUX STIFTUNG from Switzerland. It honours and supports daylight research and daylight in architecture, for the benefit of human health, well-being and the environment...
15 September 2019
La Luce Alpina | Exhibition
From 28 September to 1 December 2019 Kunstmuseum St.Gallen With works from: Giovanni Segantini, Dove Allouche, Siegrun Appelt, Philippe Rahm, Patrick Rohner, Not Vital Giovanni Segantini (1858–1899) is one of the most important painters of the late nineteenth century. In his paintings he created ...
28 August 2019
First DLA paper now published
Daylight has many beneficial effects, for example for human health and wellbeing as well as for sustainability. While electric lighting can mimick many characteristics of daylight, it remains yet to be demonstrated that it can reproduce the sum of diverse, positive outcomes associated with daylight...
16 May 2019