Outreach Lectures in Zurich/Copenhagen-Daylight Award 2016 laureates
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On 7 November, Marilyne Andersen, laureate of The Daylight Award for Research 2016, alongside Steven Holl, laureate for Design, gave a lecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) on her daylighting work that she has been developing with her research team at LIPID since 2010, and before that at MIT.
The following day, on November 8, accompanied by the Daylight Award for Research Jury, the laureates gave a similar lecture at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture (KADK) in Copenhagen in front of over 500 people.
Marilyne Andersen’s lectures revolved around three main aspects of daylight: vitality, comfort, and emotion, focusing on alertness and circadian rhythms, illumination dynamics and glare risk, and human perceptual responses.
The panel discussion following the laureate’s lectures articulated itself in particular around the interface between the design and research worlds, their complementarities and their bridging opportunities.