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City Walks and Salon

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Yaesu & Otsu Night Walk Review 2023.04.28  Noriko Higashi For the first time in about three years, the Lighting Detectives held an offline (actually a hybrid connecting with Kansai) Lighting Detectives Salon. This was the first salon si…

City Walks and Salon

Night Walk Vol.71: Yaesu and Otsu

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2023.03.24 & 04.21 Satoshi Tamura+ Amane Kotani+ Noriko Higashi+ Shouya Koizumi+ Moana Osakabe+ Hina Inagawa The first Lighting Detectives activity of 2023 was a night walk survey in Yaesu, where Midtown Yaesu opened in March and large-…

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City Night Survey: Kobe

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2023.01.18-01.20  Yumi Honda + Misuzu Nakamura  Kobe is famous for the night view from Mt. Rokko as the “10 Million Dollar Nightscape” and for its waterside nightscape as a port city. Nightscape guidelines have been established in 2012, and…

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Coffee Break

VOl.081 -Travel : Nature or City Explorer

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Interviewer: Ton Kek Hian Wee Ton: Today, I’d like to talk about traveling. I understand that you are a very well-traveled person. So, do you prefer exploring nature or the built environment of cities? Mende: Which one do you prefer? Ton: A…

Mende's Detectives Note

Vol.085 – Buddies with Vending Machines…

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This excerpt is from an essay Mende contributed in December 2001. During a period of time, I often felt that my thoughts were rather unstable.  I had a habit of continuing conversations without coming to clear conclusions about whether some…

Coffee Break

VOl.080 -Cinema Lighting

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Interviewer: Kunzhi Jiang Jiang: Today I’d like to talk about “Cinema Lighting.”  I think cinema lighting is very important.  For example, I recently watched “The Godfather,”  and felt that light and shadow in cinema can really reveal…

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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.