Mahdis Aliasgari How do you see lighting design today?
The new LED technology allows lighting designers and architects to impose new layers of aesthetics, information and interactivity in built environments but how and to what extent can we integrate these potentials in people's everyday life in our cities?
How do you see lighting design tomorrow? Mahdis Aliasgari
Smart interactive lighting design will become a fusion of function, meaning and beauty. Also, light art will move beyond event-driven projects and/or entertainment. To achieve this, we need to re-frame our “human-centric� design approach and learn from the emerging fields of design anthropology and participatory design to bring novel values into city dwellers' lives simply by involving end users in the design process. Mahdis Aliasgari started studied architecture in Tehran, Iran where she gained her bachelor and masters degrees at Azad University. She continued her studies in lighting design and graduated from KTH in Stockholm with a masters in lighting design in 2013. She gained experience in several practical workshops at KTH, and has worked as a research and architectural assistant in Tehran. Since graduating from KTH, she has become a junior researcher at the Interactive Institute Swedish ICT in Stockholm.
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