The exploratory study of light in the future of caring cities and personalized lighting design in the public space

Light plays a significant role in urbanization throughout human history. And as the number of people living in the cities has already exceeded half of the world's population, people are facing many challenges like poor infrastructure, social problems, etc. To overcome the burgeoning populations, the lighting innovation is necessary. This thesis presents a solution to the challenges of a light and caring city. We present a lighting system that integrates design strategy, system architecture, and product design. The thesis begins with exploratory research at the intersection of the keywords, light and caring city. We discuss six support roles of light in daily life and twenty features of the caring cities from case studies. We dive into issues of wellbeing and work-life balance with the hypothesis that there lies an opportunity to make a meaningful impact with innovative lighting.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering and Management Program

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Authors dc:creator

• Phakdurong, Kamin.
• Yang, Yangyang,

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Edward Schiappa.

• Engineering and Management Program.
• System Design and Management Program.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122615

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/122615