Fieldwork

City Walks and Salon

Night Walk in Hong Kong West Kowloon Cultural Distirict

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2022.11.24  Bryan Yan After long pause of the activates, Hong Kongdetectives finally made one night walk event atthe West Kowloon Cultural District. We invitedvarious professions in architecture, interiorand lighting design to join us, and …

Children's Workshop

Mid-Autumn Lantern Workshop

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2022.09.10 Singapore Lighting Detectives After 2 years of being quiet during the Mid-Autumn Festival, we were able to finally participate in the community event organised by the local grassroot committee of Tanjong Pagar. We held a lantern-…

Other Activity

Lighting Detectives Maxwell Light-up Maxwell Food Centre, Singapore

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Lighting Detectives Maxwell Light-upMaxwell Food Centre, Singapore 2022.07.08-09 Sherri Goh Changing the lighting ambience of MaxwellHawker Centre, part of the UNESCO-protectedhawker culture. SINGAPORE:As part of the closing of Venice Archi…

探偵ノート Detective note

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Vol.011 –Shining “Luminarie” – Baroque and digital lighting connect in a light festival in Salento, Italy

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Federico FaveroLighting DesignerStockholm When asked to write a note in TNT column, I was considering to share my thoughts on how Artificial Intelligence might change lighting design. But then during the summer I experienced the “Notte dell…

Coffee Break

Vol. 074-What do you think about AI as a design tool?

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Interviewer: Sunny Xu Sunny: Hi Mr. Mende. Today I would like to talk about a new technologic: AI (Artificial intelligence). What do you think about AI as a design tool? Mende: Have you tried to use AI to make some sentences or other things…

Coffee Break

Vol. 073-Favourite place to travel

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Interviewer: Eddy Lau Eddy: Today’s topic for the coffee break is “Favourite Place to Travel”. Mende-san, you must be travelling a lot. Do you have any favourite place, you will not get bored of visiting again and again, or even living ther…

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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.