Date: 
Fall 2007-Spring 2008
Location: 
MIT Media Lab, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning
Project Team: 
Susanne Seitinger, Images prepared for the MIT-Florence research workshop led by Prof. William J. Mitchell, Prof. Dennis Frenchman and Anne Beamish

Frenchman, D. and W.J. Mitchell (F. Rojas, ed.). Technology, Livability and the Historic City: Future
of Florence. (MIT: Cambridge, MA, 2009).

Technological Imagination and the Historic City: Florence. Naples, Italy: Liguori Editore. (with Dennis Frenchman, Giandomenico Amendola and William J. Mitchell). (2009)

Lighting Concepts for Oltrarno

I just contributed some thoughts on lighting to this workshop run jointly among the MIT Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, the MIT Design Lab and the city of Florence. The historic context provides both a challenge and an opportunity for integrating new technologies. On the one hand, LED-based systems can add very subtle hints and touches. On the other hand, they may be too glaring. These images are just very early sketches of how accents might be added to the existing landscape. These systems benefit from being flexible and addressable which means they would not have to be active all the time.