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Lighting Detectives x Glow Shenzhen

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Hide and Seek with Light, a reflective art workshop2024.12.19 Hu Lin + Xianyu Liu + Huangyi Lin On 19 December 2024, Lighting Detectives returned to Shenzhen, promoting sustainable urban design and light pollution awareness through creative…

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City Night Survey : Shibuya, Tokyo 

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2022.07.11 Hikaru Kimura + Yonglin Ke + Xueying Piao Shibuya, known as a youth hub, began redevelopment in 2012, transforming into a business district with a cluster of new office buildings and commercial facilities. While many new restaura…

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City Night Survey: Shinjuku Kabuki-cho, Tokyo

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2023.07.19 Shunichi Ikeda + Masashi Kurobe + Yuta Shibata Shinjuku Kabukicho, Japan’s largest entertainment district, is a dazzling neon-lit labyrinth filled with restaurants, movie theaters, and amusement facilities. Its streets are teemin…

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Vol.073 – The Shinsekai/Tsutenkaku Area: The Light of “No Double-Dipping”

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Ever seen a sign that says “No Double-Dipping”? These days you don’t see them as much, but you used to find them in the立ち食い (tachigui – standing eat) kushiage (deep-fried skewer) shops in the old downtown areas of Os…

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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…

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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.