Johanna Enger, Konstfack, Stockholm
We have a low level of understanding of how the combination of space, light and colour affects us biologically and in relation to how we experience our environments, which in turn means that we could be designing better spaces if we had a better understanding of this experience.
An example of this is that lighting standards are designed to consider only the focussed element of our vision, not considering the substantial part of our visual field which is blurred. Our receptors pick up contrasts across our visual field and it’s the distribution of these contrasts that help us to understand a space.
Johanna’s research includes developing a better language of light to explore these perceptive elements of our interactions with spaces, through the project Perceptual Metrics for Lighting Design.