11. Exploit advanced manufacturing
Lighting designers have often been limited to using what the lighting industry provides, rather than what they and their clients truly need.
While the properties of materials and details offer inspiration, the commercial constraints of the lighting industry should not restrict the realisation of Light Architecture. One of the greatest opportunities is to create more with less, ensuring alignment with thinking about circularity, and to quickly and sustainably deliver custom solutions for specific lighting challenges.
This ambition can be realised by using lighting equipment made from recycled or biodegradable materials. Such practices enable lighting design to become more symbiotic with other creative disciplines in the built environment. Modern methods like 3D printing allow for luminaires to be precisely customised such that they seamlessly integrate lighting into the architecture.......
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“A command economy seeks to plan ahead of time what things will be needed, and how many of each will be required; a market economy uses prices as signals to determine what should be made and when. An economy based on personal fabrication would undermine the assumptions common to both, by allowing end consumers to fulfil emergent demand more or less directly.”
Adam Greenfield