DEA 2750

Light InForming Space

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

Light brings both necessity and nuance to the built environment, creating functional spaces and conjuring apparitions in perception, scale, time and sensory impulses.  Developing a working knowledge of lighting design while seeking light as a transformative element, students will create lighting installations, lighting design documentation and build light fixtures.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment preference given to: DEA undergraduate majors.  Other students by permission only.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: DEA 1110, DEA 1150.

• Immersion in luminance as a spatial opportunist.
• Competency in principles of light, color theory, luminaire typologies, lighting calculations, energy efficiency and re-lamping techniques.
• Identify / classify luminaire / lighting types, luminance categories.
• Manipulation and integration of lighting technology and spatial dynamics.
• Model-making and hands-on experience building a light fixture.

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