The concept of "light culture"

Tianjin Lighting Society

The concept of "light culture" indicates that our understanding of the law of urban lighting landscape development has reached a new height. The research demonstrates that the concept of "light culture" should be born in the process of building a well-off society in an all-round way and accelerating the socialist modernization drive. It has the characteristics of the times and the important characteristics of the "three represents." Especially the direction of advanced culture is the theoretical basis for proposing the concept of "light culture". “Light culture” is rooted in the construction of urban landscape lighting. Therefore, the construction of urban landscape lighting is the practical basis for this concept.

The concept of "light culture" is very rich in content and has a wide range of hunting. Its cultural form as a material is accompanied by the development of light, fire, and the generation and application of light. It is born with a long history and is compatible with each other. It not only inherits the "light culture" of the nation, but also absorbs the outstanding "light culture" of the outside world. It infiltrates the whole process of urban landscape lighting construction with the unique way of urban landscape lighting materialization, ideology, thoughts and feelings, social folk customs and human history. While inheriting the historical "light culture", it also created a modern "light culture." As the guiding ideology of urban lighting practice activities, the creative lighting and lighting works are integrated into the material properties and deep cultural connotations of the light environment, creating a stunning night vision image, which frees the urban landscape lighting from the mechanistic use and imitation of the means by means of means. Separating from the functional goal of single lighting, using high-tech products such as new light sources, new lamps, new processes, intelligent control, and modern energy-saving measures and skills, the light elements, rhythm, light ecology, and light mood of the landscape are Light painting and illuminance, brightness, color temperature, viewpoint, angle of view, point, line, surface and other comprehensive factors are organically combined to distinguish between light and dark, primary and secondary, light and heavy, overall, local, scale, color, coordination, and throughout the planning The whole process of creativity, design, construction, management and maintenance acts on light-receiving carriers such as buildings, structures and municipal public facilities, giving them profound connotations, achieving lighting and culture, function and perspective, art and science, beauty and characteristics. Harmony and unity, creating a boutique of urban night lighting construction, forcing "light" As an edge discipline, it is a major attempt by the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences alliance. Integrate urban landscape lighting technology into advanced concepts in the fields of geography, culture, ecology, green, philosophy, history, art, humanities, folklore, and social disciplines. Guided by interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and new fields, large-span intersections and deep The level of penetration, high-intensity integration, and continuous innovation of ideas.

As far as urban landscape lighting is concerned, the introduction of “light culture” is not only a great progress in the concept and practice innovation, but also a sign that the construction of urban landscape lighting is upgraded from the initial stage of simple lighting function to the development of spiritual civilization through the development stage of light and beauty. The inevitable result of the advanced stage. Therefore, the integration of urban landscape lighting and lighting into the "light culture" concept is the theoretical innovation, the leap of connotation, the expansion of extension, the excavation of the underlying, and the transformation of forms, giving the urban landscape environment lighting the theoretical quality of advancing with the times. Fresh soul and unlimited vitality.

The birth of the "light culture" concept is a historical product of the development of urban nightscape lighting to a certain stage. The integration of urban nightscape lighting into the "light culture" concept must first reflect the city's own personality characteristics. Whether the night lighting has its own characteristics, the key is to grasp the basic characteristics of the overall image of the city. The natural and human landscapes of each city are different. The geographical location, natural conditions and specific environment form the natural characteristics of a city, which forms the basis of the city image. The artificial construction activities form the most active factor of the city image. Its image characteristics depend on the nature of the city, the layout of the plan and the main functions of the city. Urban culture exists objectively, but due to different natural environmental conditions, the historical development process of thousands of years has given them a unique urban appearance, which naturally produces its unique cultural characteristics and social atmosphere. The four municipalities directly under the Central Government of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing are all big cities in China. Apart from the commonality of people, land, economy, prosperity, political and economic life, the image of each other, Cultural characteristics are by no means identical, each with its own distinct urban culture. As a historical city, Beijing is a national political center for thousands of years. The urban environment and cultural features are full of the meaning of “capital” and “central”. Because of its unique status as an international activity center, Shanghai is bound to permeate the strong and shocking financial and commercial Shanghai. Cultural atmosphere; Chongqing is surrounded by mountains and rivers, overlapping with high and low, covering the cultural atmosphere of the mountain city; Tianjin is located in the Bohai Bay area, its port status has also created a passionate internal and external exchanges, Sanjiang Confluence and the six-country concession site along the Haihe River The development history and culture of Shangyu in the lower part of Jiuhe River constitutes its own image characteristics.

Therefore, studying "light culture", analyzing "light culture", creating "light culture", and improving the cultural taste of urban night landscape, we must understand the city and familiarize with urban history, geography, nature, style, humanities and environment. Carding the city's axis, texture, skyline, edge and entrance, vision, road bridge, central scenic spot, featured scenic spot, waterfront interface, night view point, landmark building, open space, nodes, ecological greening, symbolic landscape; interpretation of the city Streets, park greens, buildings (structures), historical monuments, public art, guidance systems, archways, advertising, signs and other elements. Only in this way can we express culture, highlight characteristics, show individuality, and not be uniform, avoiding similarities.

The heavy connotation of "light culture" has "deep history, obvious regionality and obvious nationality"; the broad extension of "light culture" also has "scientific, humanistic, technical and economical". "Light Culture" can derive "light economy", "light spirit" and "light power". Therefore, "light culture" is an inevitable outcome of historical development and a comprehensive effect of promoting social and economic development. Further exploring the profound connotation of "light culture" and further expanding the extension of "light culture" should be the subject of our long-term research and exploration. The research on the concept of "light culture" is far from complete. In the future scientific practice of urban landscape lighting, we must constantly open up the road of understanding and applying the concept of "light culture".

Editor: China Lighting Network Lumens