2025.1.16 Noriko Higashi In past years, we held a joint year-end activity report meeting with the Lighting Detectives’ corporate sponsors and members. However, this year we decided to hold separate gatherings. The aim was to create a more r…

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…

3-day Student Workshop2023.09.16-09.18 Yumi Honda + Noriko Higashi The second Lighting Design Camp by Kaoru Mende was held. This project is an intensive course to learn about lighting design directly from lighting design professionals over …

3-day Student Workshop2024.09.21-23 Noriko Higashi Kaoru Mende’s third annual Lighting Design Workshop took place over the September long weekend. Twenty students from diverse university backgrounds came together to delve into the fou…

2024.11.15　Noriko Higashi + Hikaru Kimura This is the second night walk event, following the workshop held in Hida-Furukawa in August 2023. This time, we ventured to Kamioka-cho, also within Hida City. The centerpiece of this event was an e…

2023.10.17　　Noriko HIgashi Kozushima-Island is the second island in Japan to be certified as a starry sky protected area by the International Dark Sky Association in 2020. The island is working to create a town free of light pollution by re…

2023.08.26　Hikaru Kimurar＋Noriko Higashi Hida Furukawa is located in the northern part of Gifu Prefecture and is a basin surrounded by mountains. A city walk was held to explore the streets with white walls that have remained since ancient …

Symbiosis of beautiful starry sky and light environment 2024.03.10　Noriko Higashi The Yaeyama Islands became the first island in Japan to be certified as a starry sky protected area. However it’s still only tentatively certified because abo…

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…

Muscat Street, Singapore 2022.04.21 Reiko Kasai, Mayumi Banno, Sun Young Hwang, Quratuaini Jamil, Sherri Goh   Projection on Masjid Sultan (Sultan Mosque) Group picture at the gates Ultraman, the new icon of Singapore tourism Our first…

Basel Architecture Week 2022 2022.05.10 & 05.13　Lisbeth Skindbjerg Kristensen+Kelly Bannwart+Michael Hübscher ■ At the Biegining In January 2022, Kelly Bannwart and Michael Hübscher from the Basel Lighting Design office HÛBSCHER GESTALT…

(2020.11.18　　Noriko Higashi The lighting event Akiu Lumina was held in the Akiu Hot Spring area of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture from November 14-23, 2020.  Lighting Detectives was invited to the event to conduct a light up workshop. Light up a…

Discover Tanjong Pagar, Singapore 2021.10.22-2021.10.23 Lighting Detectives: Reiko Kasai, Sun Young Hwang, Sherri Goh, Quratuaini Jamil, Shirmine Tan, Xiao QingTeam Asagao: Hana Kasai, Victoria Wee, Marielle Ang, Elias Bay Our first activit…

2021.05.22-2021.11.21　Reiko Kasai, Mayumi Banno, Sun Young Hwang, Sherri Goh, Shosaku Takahashi 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　      　　©gardestudio                                Pre-opening set-up In late November 2019, we were invit…

World Lighting Journey Chief Interview 2020.04.23　　Yuichi Anzai ―During the year 2020, we posted lightscapes from various places around the world. Among these posts, the most viewed images were the facade lighting of the Museu do Amanhã in …

World Lighting Journey 2019  Annual Report, A chief interview 2020.02.26　　Erina Hosono We interviewed Shomei Tanteidan Leader Mr. Mende this year again as an annual round up to our weekly World Lighting Journey postings in 2019 to the Shome…

Date: October 13, 2004-November 8, 2004Place: Matsuya Ginza 7F Design Gallery 1953Host: Japan Design Committee The place is Tokyo. The year is 2050. The topic is light. One hundred and nineteen professionals from various fields, architects,…

Date: May 14-June 9, 2003Place: Matsuya Ginza 7F Design Gallery 1953Host: Japan Design Committee World Lighting Journey’ a collection of nightscapes from 50 cities around the world, taken over the course of 12 years, was exhibited in …

The Lighting Detectives Makes Its Appearance in Ginza Date: March 6-April 29, 1997Place: TEPCO Ginza Building, 2F ‘Electric Scene’ Seven years of accumulated Lighting Detective’s research and activities were exhibited in a viewe…

Date: Nov. 2-8, 1998Place: Tokyo Design Center, Galleria Hall What kind of changes can we expect to see in the Tokyo nightscape of 2050? Through the discussion of experts from various fields and the prophecies of a 100 prophets, we were abl…