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PAPERS: Counter design: Changing perspectives in design action Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Session Chair: Yekta Bakırlıoğlu, Lancaster University Session Chair: Claudia Garduño García, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana | |
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Design things in search for public concern: A study of how urban lighting is scripted in the City of Gothenburg 1: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 2: University of Gothenburg, Sweden Light is gaining attention as a design element in public space. Its relational and ephemeral aesthetics enable urban transformations beyond the built environment, offering new possibilities for sustainable and inclusive cities. Yet, artificial light remains a relatively new concern in planning, traditionally excluded in drawings and regulations. This paper examines how light’s relational materiality is translated within urban planning and design, and travels as a matter of concern in city governance to become a public thing. Drawing on Actor-Network Theory, we analyze municipal lighting policymaking in Gothenburg, Sweden, showing how light’s multiple dimensions—its aesthetics, sustainability, safety, environmental —are mediated through scripting instances such as visualisations, guidelines, comprehensive plans and digital twins, and become part of the bureaucratic organizing of the municipality. The study contributes to understanding how light, through such organizational translations, shifts from an object of design to an object of urban governance - in search for public concern. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1718
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