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Kaoru Mende / Lighting Design Workshop

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3 day student workshop 20252025.09.13-09.15 Noriko Higashi This year marks the fourth time the Lighting Design Workshop has been held. Nineteen students gathered from all over Japan to spend three days thoroughly learning about lighting des…

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City Night Survey : Toyosu, Tokyo

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2025.06.26 Yumi Honda +Qiaoxi Wang+ Momoe Nomura We observed and recorded the nighttime light environment of the newly developed commercial complex Senkyaku Banrai in the Tokyo Bay Area and its surrounding public spaces (green plaza, statio…

Lighting Detectives Online Activities 2022

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Hikaru Kimura Due to the impact of the COVID-19, the Lighting Detectives have voluntarily suspended in-person activities since 2020. While we haven’t been able to conduct our usual activities, we’ve been exploring new methods, s…

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Vol.083 – What is the Cost of Losing Dark Sky?

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Interviewer: Lin Huangyi (Akira) Akira:Mende-san, today I’d like to talk about the cost of losing dark sky. Perhaps we can continue our chat starting from the elevator as a warm-up to recall the value of starlight. What’s your most memorabl…

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Vol.082 – Relationships and Social Boundary Design

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Interviewer: Momoe Nomura Nomura: When I was in grade school I was deeply hurt and had a painful experience while interacting with other people.  I was given a hurtful nickname, others made fun of my home situation, and things were thrown a…

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No.71 – Kasanji Hot Spring Fireworks Show

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There is a famous hot spring called Kasanji in Hamamatsu, Shizoka. By fate, I was invited to the Hotel Kokonoe, run by the Entetsu Group, to view the annual firework show the last weekend in July. The scene from the hotel is picturesque wit…

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Who are the Lighting Detectives?
A research group established in 1990 by Lighting designer, Kaoru Mende and 5 other designers, and dedicated to the study of lighting culture through the observation and surveying of urban light environments in Japan and throughout the world.