EDUCATION
THE ‘LIGHT SHOWER’ FOR STUDENTS Bergen University has started offering students morning light therapy sessions to counter Seasonal Affective Disorder. Martin Tomlinson reports.
In the mornings, students and teachers can visit the hall to enjoy a summer-like experience of daylight, which helps energise them.
Falling asleep in lectures may be a thing of the past thanks to a new lighting system at the University of Bergen in Norway. The college has begun offering a unique energising light therapy service for students in a recently opened lecture hall at the Department of Psychology. The room is Norway's – and perhaps one of the world's – best-lit lecture halls, equipped with a Human Centric Lighting (HCL) system from lighting company, Glamox.
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In the mornings, as part of a welfare initiative, students and teachers can visit the hall to enjoy a summerlike experience of daylight, which helps energise them and counters the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). The lighting installation is centred around the Glamox C90-R series of tuneable luminaires controlled by a Glamox DALI-based Light Management System. The lecture hall is unique in that it can scale from 7,000K to 1,800K.