Nightscape Lighting Plans Through Collaborations of Regional Organizations and Lighting Designers in Miyazaki Prefecture

Abstract

Lighting design is a wide-ranging field, that requires specialized knowledge. Recently, the importance of nightscape lighting has been increasing due to safety concerns as well as cultural demands. Many cities have created nightscape lighting guidelines tailored to their specific climate and weather, aiming for positive nightscapes. However, there are many unsolved problems regarding the production and application of guidelines. In order to gain insight into the problems seen in previous cases, we will review the social experiments conducted by a private entity in a city in Miyazaki Prefecture. Through this process, we will find a new method of creating city nightscape lighting guidelines and we will indicate the importance of “Lemma Lighting” by applying the “signifiers” concept.