Guerrilla Lighting

Guerrilla Lighting in Douglas on The Isle Of Man. Buildings are lit by groups waving torches and mobile lights with colour filters at five separate buildings.

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Find a Guerrilla Lighting to attend at http://guerrillalighting.net/

Guerrilla lighting is a group set up for “war on bad lighting, guerrilla lighting is a protest against wasteful use of light but most of all, guerrilla lighting is about having fun and raising the awareness of the power of light.”Guerrilla lighting aims to act against the uniformity of standard architectural lighting.

I agree strongly with with Guerrilla lighting as lighting for many buildings appears to be a statement carried out in a negative grandiloquent way, with not much considerations upon its surroundings. Lighting is a wonderful design tool that can make a space become a place that people can socialize in where their dreams and aspirations can be released. Guerrilla lighting is aiming that this can became a realization with every nocturnal landscape and building. The Guerrilla methods used involve organizing groups of people with hand held torches and coloured filters to illuminate areas with inadequate lighting. Creating very temporary lighting inspirations that can only be seen with a fleeting glimpse as the activists move to the next target.

“architectural lighting is not a competition – brighter is not better”