Light O'Clock (Interacting with Daylight Mini-Series)

Interacting with Daylight Mini-Series – Episode 1: Geolocation

Hosts: Carolina Guidolin, Anna M. Biller & Priji Balakrishnan

DOI: 10.17617/1.5q1h-ad89| License: CC-BY

In this first episode of our new Interacting with Daylight mini-series, your host Caro is joined by Anna and Priji to discuss the Daylight Interaction Project, funded by the Daylight Academy. The project explores how people interact with daylight in everyday life and how this is shaped by factors such as location, built environments, culture and behaviours.

The episode focuses on the first part of their framework: Location. Through interview snippets recorded during the Daylight Academy Summer School in beautiful Chexbres, Switzerland, the hosts reflect on how geography, climate, temperature and landscape can influence experiences of daylight.

Interviewees come from diverse locations and latitudes: Singapore, Norway, Rochester (USA), and Costa Rica — offering perspectives on topics such as seasonal daylight changes, tropical versus northern light environments, and associations with sunlight and darkness.

Links and resources:

• Anna and Priji’s publication describing their framework: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00159-5

• Visualisation of the framework’s “bubbles”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-024-00159-5/figures/3

• More about the Daylight Academy (DLA) Project: https://daylight.academy/projects/daylight-interactions/

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro: the Daylight Interaction Project

(10:20) Project summary and interviewees

(13:51) Geolocation: latitudes, climatic zones, seasons, geographical context

(19:51) Snippets: associations with daylight and darkness

(30:50) Daylight as a placemaking tool

(34:21) Daylight vs sunlight

(37:55) Snippets: Seasonal changes and colours

(53:05) Reflections on seasonality

(59:33) Episode summary

(01:02:00) Outro: darkness associations