DEA 2750 Lighting Design: Light InForming Space
Light brings both necessity and nuance to the built environment, creating functional spaces and conjuring apparitions in perception, scale, time, and sensory impulses. Developing a working knowledge of lighting design while seeking light as a transformative element, students will create lighting installations, lighting design documentation, and build light fixtures.
Learning Outcomes
Outcome 1: Immersion in luminance as a spatial opportunist.
Outcome 2: Competency in principles of light, color theory, luminaire typologies, lighting calculations, energy efficiency, and re-lamping techniques.
Outcome 3: Identify / classify luminaire / lighting types, luminance categories.
Outcome 4: Manipulation and integration of lighting technology and spatial dynamics.
Outcome 5: Model-making and hands-on experience building a light fixture.