lampstandard · 2009-10-27 11:11

I was rather tickled with a couple of recent stories about reactive street lighting – Toulouse’s heat-sensitive street lamps and Dörentrup’s textable lighting.

I can’t help feeling there will be unintended consequences – will light attract as well as guide? Will people clump together to use the existing light rather than turn on their own? Will people start treating street lamps as familiar strangers? Is an unlit lamp lonely? I text it to let it know I’m thinking of them.

I can’t help feeling that the action/reaction of being able to turn on lights somewhere in Germany from my desk is quite appealing. Is the new street art getting cities on the other side of the world to strobe?

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