I’m in a hotel room and have just finished what was laughingly called ‘a breakfast box’. There is a yawning gulf between what was in my head and what was in the box. In a positive glow of expectation, I was seeing a fresh croissant, perhaps a small pot of strawberry jam – maybe a …
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Last week I wrote about the Climate Change Challenge and its good to see that everyone’s keeping their heads down, hoping that no one sees you sitting there. Here in Sherborne we’ve been thinking about ways to reduce our material consumption in general, the environmental damage that we do, and our carbon footprint in particular …
Luke Jerrams’s Museum of the Moon has gone on display in Sherborne Abbey, Dorset. From Friday 5th July until Sunday 7th July, the Moon will hang above the Abbey crossing. Open for viewing from 9am – midnight. See you there. The moon has always inspired humanity, acting as a ‘cultural mirror’ to society, reflecting the …
Usually, when the lighting industry goes quiet over something its for one of two reasons; expect a mass launch of new products at Frankfurt – or it’s something that’s too difficult to get the head around so let’s ignore it and hope it goes away. Given that Frankfurt Licht+Bild is a matter of months away, …
We welcome Phil Copland to The Lighting Tree.Nominated by Juliet Rennie, Phil is a senior designer with Nulty+.For those of you who are new to The Lighting Tree, its quite simple. Nominees are suggested by the previous nominee – and they need to be differently gendered. That’s it.Oh, and its really about the FUTURE of …
At a recent EDA Regional Business Forum in Exeter, the delegates were received with an update on the situation regarding counterfeit electrical product. Presented by Chris Stammers, Compliance Services Manager with BEAMA, it made for very scary listening. The global picture Counterfeit product generally falls into two categories: Companies making false or misleading claims as …
If we accept that ‘biophilia’ describes our love for nature, then how far does that love go? Day Two of the BRE Wellness and Biophilia Symposium opened up some potentially inconvenient truths for designers, specifiers, manufacturers and suppliers. The question that needs to be asked is, at what point do we stop being in love …
This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time . . . Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even …
We’ve been looking for a term that encompasses the approach that we need to take to achieve a healthful lighting environment. ‘Human Centric Lighting’ is all but discredited since its been picked up by marketing departments and used as a convenient tag for anything containing tunable white LEDs, so we’re obliged to look for something …
Why are we talking about plants in offices? Its not the first time that we’ve been fascinated with sharing our working lives with plants; most of us have spent time surrounded by dead geraniums sitting on the top of filing cabinets. At a different scale entirely, the Bureaulandschaft movement in Europe, from the late 50s …
