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Abstract
Night Drawing is an action that challenges perceptual habits—an embodied experience at the limits of the visible. Dealing with light at night is an urgent issue for a variety of social and cultural reasons and concerns the wider context of anthropogenic climate change. This paper deals with lighting conditions in the urban night on one hand and forms of cognition through drawing on the other. When it comes to artificial light at night, the foremost concerns include safety, light pollution, and the loss of darkness. However, the fact that darkness is also caused by and understood through artificial light is rarely discussed. Night Drawing aims to renegotiate long-standing assumptions about the benefits of urban nighttime lighting. This approach offers a challenge to the brighter the better idea and re-writes the appearance of nocturnal land/cityscapes. Night Drawing is a critical, innovative approach, a practice as a method to pay further attention to the representational power of the light at night. It aims at a technique of seeing in a new way—a re-examination and a new conception of urban darkness.
Résumé
Le night drawing est une action qui défie les habitudes perceptives, une expérience incarnée aux limites du visible. La gestion de la lumière pendant la nuit est un problème urgent pour diverses raisons sociales et culturelles et touche au contexte plus large du changement climatique anthropique. Cet article traite d’une part des conditions d’éclairage dans la nuit urbaine, et des formes de cognition par le dessin d’autre part. En ce qui concerne la lumière artificielle pendant la nuit, les principales préoccupations sont la sécurité, la pollution lumineuse et la perte d’obscurité. Cependant, le fait que l’obscurité soit également causée et comprise par la lumière artificielle est un phénomène rarement discuté. Le night drawing vise à renégocier des hypothèses de longue date sur les avantages de l’éclairage urbain nocturne. Cette approche se situe en porte-à-faux avec l’idée que la brillance est nécessairement mieux, et réécrit la physionomie des paysages terrestres/urbains nocturnes. Le night drawing est une approche critique et innovante, une pratique en tant que méthode permettant d’accorder plus d’attention au pouvoir de représentation de la lumière pendant la nuit. Il vise une nouvelle technique du voir, de même qu’un réexamen et une nouvelle conception de l’obscurité urbaine.
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