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 …

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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…

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Coffee Break

Vol.072-The Appeal of Dark Spaces

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Interviewer: Ito Yuki ITO:Today I`d like to discuss the “appeal of dark spaces. ”Dark space is a pretty rough idea.  However, I imagine not totally pitch, black spaces, but dark spaces with a softly lit lamp, a level of darkness to feel com…

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…

Monologue of a Lighting Detective

Vol.010 – The Duality of Light and Shadow

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Christof FielstetteLighting DesignerHamburg Light and shadow are fundamental elements of our world and have always inspired the imagination of humans. Light is the source of life, it allows us to perceive the world around us and gives us or…

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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.