DEA 2750 - Lighting Design: Light InForming Space

(LAD-HE)

Spring. 1 credit. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: DEA 1110, DEA 1150. Enrollment preference given to: DEA undergraduate majors. Other students by permission only.

R. Gilmore.

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.

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.