Edward Bartholomew
Username
Edward Bartholomew
Proposer First Name
Edward
Proposer Email
Edward@Bartholomew.Lighting
Proposer Last Name
Bartholomew
Boston 2021 Areas of Focus
Proposer Company/Organization
Bartholomew Lighting
Proposer Phone
(206) 913-7187
Proposer Job Title
Lighting Designer
Proposer Additional Info
Edward Bartholomew, principal of Bartholomew Lighting, has over thirty years of experience designing architectural lighting systems. He has won numerous lighting design awards while developing evidence-based, sustainable, and healthy, lighting strategies.
Proposed Session Description
This talk is based on the simple premise: Everyone deserves quality light (and dark). We will explore how lighting intersects with social and environmental justice and the impact that it has on marginalized communities. This talk expands on Mark Loeffler's presentation on "Responsible Lighting". And Edward Bartholomew's continued interrogation of lightings role in social justice. This talk will look at historical precedents and current social and environmental realities, and the role that lighting plays in maintaining social and environmental inequities. We will explore why marginalized communities get poor lighting, that is unjust socially and environmentally. And how lighting is used as a tool of surveillance, policing and the control of nocturnal behavior. This talk will show how quality lighting serves as a signifier of prosperity and privilege. Through case studies we will probe how exterior and interior spaces are lit to reinforce power dynamics and status.
Diversity and Inclusiveness
This talk explicitly addresses the inequitable use of exterior and interior illumination to reinforce power dynamics and status, often as a tool of surveillance, policing, and the control of nocturnal behavior in marginalized communities.
Learning Objectives
The audience will gain a new perspective on quality lighting as a signifier of power, status, and privilege. And how quality lighting has been denied to marginalized communities.
The audience will learn through historical precedents about how lighting is used as a tool of surveillance, policing, and the control of nocturnal behavior.
Through case studies, the audience will learn how neighborhoods are impacted by the unequal application of lighting in the environment.
By providing insights and examples of good or “just” versus oppressive “unjust” lighting, we will describe how lighting and nighttime visual quality has been overlooked or undermined in historically marginalized neighborhoods.
Has this session been presented before?
No
Additional Comments
This presentation has been accepted by a national lighting conference, LightFair for October 2021 in NYC.
Target Audiences Level of Expertise
Level 2 - Some prior knowledge helpful.
Session Format Details
Presentation with historical precedents and case studies to demonstrate key points.
Recommended Length
90-minute session
Strongest Content Connection - Boston 2021
Comments about your speaker roster
Mark and I are both passionate and knowledgeable about light and its role in reinforcing sociological and environmental inequities. We have both spoken at BuildEnergy Boston in the past.
Anything else you'd like to tell us about your session proposal?
This talk will provide insights and examples of good or “just” versus oppressive “unjust” lighting. We will describe how lighting and nighttime visual quality has been overlooked or undermined in historically marginalized neighborhoods. Our goal is to enable sustainability advocates, municipal planners, and design professionals to recognize lighting problems and prioritize the improvement of public area illumination in systematically marginalized communities.
Reviewer 1
Wright, Daryl
Reviewer 2
Wright, Daryl
Curator
Nielson, Christopher
Proposal #
151
Session #
500
Committee Decision
Accepted
Presenters
Full Description
Architects, Engineers, and Lighting Designers will gain a new understanding of the role of lighting from a sociological and environmental justice perspective. And how lighting reinforces power structures and inequalities in spaces.