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Safer Cities - Lighting the way
Designing cities for after dark. Architects, lighting designers, landscapers and planners should attend this seminar.
It’s hard to find a city where crime isn’t at or near the top of the list of citizen concerns. Street lighting is one of the tools that helps to make streets safer. Street lights are on every street corner of every major city and seemingly provide the perfect vehicle to integrate technology into everyday public life for everyone to feel safer.
But does it necessarily follow that adding more lights, or making them brighter and smarter, leads to safer cities? Is it that simple?
From 2016 - 2019 the Free to Be project (XYX Lab and Plan International) collected a digital dataset of over 21,000 pins of safe and unsafe spaces from young women and girls from cities as diverse as Lima, Madrid, Kampala, Delhi, Sydney and Melbourne.
Over the past 12 months Arup have analysed qualitative with quantitative data across 84 different sites in Melbourne to find practical measures around how we can use lights to make our city feel safer at night time.
This presentation, to be conducted by Hoa Yang and Rebecca Cadorin from Arup and Dr Gill Matthewson, will consider:
How designers can leverage qualitative and quantitative design techniques to inform our understanding of people’s perceptions of the built environment.
How we can use digital technology for better lighting design?
Current Australian standards and guidelines around lighting in public spaces. Are they sufficient?
What factors should be considered in lighting design to make urban environments more equitable and welcoming?
What is the role of other disciplines in creating a safer environment – human factors, pedestrian planning, acoustics, landscaping
How can architects and landscape architects incorporate the above mentioned factors into their designs
For the event we have developed a 5min soundscape of what the city sounds like for different people and will run this in our SoundLab. We will be running 2 sessions prior the talk and 2 after.
5.35pm - SoundLab experience session
4.45pm - SoundLab experience session
6-8pm - talk
6.15pm - SoundLab experience session
6.25pm - SoundLab experience session
Formal CPD Presentation
Cost to attend is $75 plus GST or book a group for 10 for $650 plus GST. For more information email mark@meccaevents.com.au or phone 0419 518 642
Rebecca Cadorin
Rebecca Cadorin is a senior lighting designer with the Arup Sydney lighting team. Rebecca and the Arup team work on a range of multi-disciplined lighting projects, from large scale infrastructural, urban renewal and commercial work, through to high end fashion boutiques and intimate art programs.
Hoa Yang
Hoa specialises in a holistic approach to design, bringing together daylight, experiential lighting, sustainability and place-making. For me, the manipulation of light is pivotal in achieving such perceptions in the built environment.
Gill Matthewson
Dr Gill Matthewson is a founding member of the XYX Lab at Monash University researching the confluence of gender and space
Billie- Grace Dunk
Billie-Grace is an Engineer with a range of experience in civil, acoustic and façade engineering. She specialises in consulting and design strategies with a focus on holistic and human centred design.
Jadecross is a team of architectural lighting professionals dedicated to delivering carefully detailed lighting installations across the workplace, healthcare, hospitality, retail and public space & infrastructure sectors.
With a portfolio of lighting instruments from brands such as Erco and Ligman, we are able to achieve exacting results with robust and precise engineered, technical light fixtures for both indoor and outdoor environments.
Founded in 1992, Jadecross is one of New South Wales’ leading architectural lighting suppliers. With a comprehensive and balanced cross-section of both Australian-made and imported lighting tools, Jadecross specialises in assisting Architects, Engineers, and Lighting Designers to deliver distinctive and lasting lighting installations