News
16 May 2019
International Day of Light
Today, light is celebrated worldwide. Initiated by UNESCO, the International Day of Light provides every year a stage for the continued appreciation of light. Activities emphasising the role of light in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields as diverse as ...
15 April 2019
Winter School “Perspectives on Daylight”: participants share their impressions on video
For one week 30 international students from a variety of disciplines received inputs on daylight from 13 experts – including 10 Daylight Academy members – of different fields, namely environment, health, architecture and technology. Through dialogue with the experts, the participants deepened ...
25 March 2019
Linda Geddes’ book “Chasing the Sun” reviewed by Anna Wirz-Justice
“It’s about time! In the dark days of winter, the science writer Linda Geddes has published a timely book about the importance of sunlight for our health and well-being. She has travelled far and wide and read deeply, to translate the new research findings of the last two decades into a ...
21 February 2019
Public panel discussion about daylight and urban densification
The Daylight Academy working group “Daylight & Green Cities” is organising a public event in Zurich on 12 March 2019 (19:00-21:30), together with the HSR (Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil) and the Architects Mäder+Mächler. It will consist in a panel discussion about urban ...17 January 2019
New European Standard for Daylight of Buildings (EN 17037)
Daylight is an essential source of illumination for humans. We spend up to 90% of our time indoors and part of these indoor spaces are inadequately supplied with daylight. Daylight supply means more than just good vision: the influence of daylight on general well-being is being perceived more and ...
07 January 2019
Exhibition “XULLUX” explores and enhances the natural light effects inside the Abbey Library of St. Gallen
The exhibition project of Martin Leuthold and Daylight Academy member Sigrun Appelt takes place from 19 December 2018 to 3 March 2019 in the Abbey Library (Stiftsbibliothek) of St. Gallen and will be accompanied by various presentations and events (in German): Die Installation XULLUX macht den ...
12 November 2018
New light active material cleans water
Researchers at EPFL’s Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering have developed a photocatalytic system based on a material in the class of metal-organic frameworks. The system can be used to degrade pollutants present in water while simultaneously producing hydrogen that can be captured and ...
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