Roger Narboni
Lights in landscape. Lighting design in parks and public spaces
Design workshop. Milan, 7th – 11th May 2014
It is known that the perception of a site changes during the day and over the seasons. If observed with attention, places look always different; landscape is never the same. Mostly because of weather conditions and lighting variations, which often reveal unknown details or specific elements of reality usually unseen. Uncontrolled use of artificial lighting tends to flatten out these differences, causing lighting pollution and falsifying historic centres and landscapes. This happens because of the excessive use of light systems, which often are out of context and present themselves with fanciful designs. The new generation lighting technologies lead the project and design research to unexplored fields of spatial experimentations, in which it is possible to join visibility and safety needs with the free use of parks and public spaces during night time, without having to give up energetic efficiency and environmental respect. It is possible to design lighting of a site starting from the intrinsic nature of the specific space, highlighting its qualities and giving importance to light and shadow variations on it. Led lights, lighting volumes and interactive elements and site-specific installations are used to set up real perceptual experiences; they reinvent the space of the site, and join design approach to the most advanced environmental art experiences.
- Roger Narboni Posted on: 02/12/2014
Roger Narboni, Paris (Algeri, 1953). He is a French lighting designer. Narboni graduated from Orsay University near Paris with a Master’s degree in electronics in 1975 and stayed 4 years in The National Fine Arts School of Paris (1971 -1974). After several years travelling abroad and 3 years spent in [...] 
Laboratory - Public Space 2014 Posted on: 21/10/2014
Public space / common space / shared space Design Workshop MODULE 05 [150 hours] Milan, spring 2014 Nowadays, working on public spaces represents a planning challenge providing food for thought. In fact, on the one hand society experiences the dramatic nature of the loss of shared values relating to the [...]- Lights in landscape. Lighting design in parks and public spaces - di Antonio Angelillo Posted on: 07/05/2014
It is known that site’s perception changes during days and seasons. If observed with attention, places look always different, landscape is never the same. Mostly because of weather and of lighting variations, which often reveal unknown details, specific elements of reality usually unseen. Uncontrolled use of electric lighting levels differences, [...] 
Streaming lecture - Roger Narboni Posted on: 08/04/2014
Roger Narboni Lighting the landscape Streaming lecture – Thursday 8th may 2014 6,00 pm at Fondazione Falciola / Camplus Rubattino via Caduti di Marcinelle 2 (zona Lambrate-Ventura) Milan
