STUDY PROGRAMME
Design

AFAM CODE
ABPR18

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Land design

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Light design

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical

The course aim is to provide the cultural and technical grounds of lighting engineering that will enable the students to manage the aesthetics as well as the performance and technical aspects of lights within classic or innovative types of products.

This course is made of a single module of 6 CFA credits.

Successful students will be able to:

• Thoroughly understand light and the physics of light engineering

• Acquire the technical and methodological tools that enable to choose the most suitable solutions when designing light appliances

• Become fully aware of the complexity and variety of approaches to light-centred projects, with a mature approach to lighting design objects

• Elements of optics and light engineering physics

• Properties and types of light sources and light appliances

• Use of light in art

• Designing light appliances

This is a theoretical/project based course. Didactic activities may include:

• Front lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools for detailed study

• Classroom debates and presentations

• Individual study and research

• Exercises and revisions

• Field trips

Assessment is based on the overall competence of the students and may include:

• Oral exam

• Submission of papers, projects or research work

• Submission of a complete project

Further details on specific tests can be provided by the professor during the course. Assessment criteria include commitment, active participation and personal growth of the students during the course.

All bibliographic details will be provided by the professors during the course. A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.