Author Archives: Mona Sloane

Surveillance society: artificial lighting for a policed public

By Mona Sloane 15 September 2021 Technology

Powered by mobile generators, floodlights have been installed in New York City’s public housing project since 2014. Mayor Bill de Blasio explained that they will ‘light up the areas that have previously been obscure and problematic, and make it easier for the NYPD to do its job’. This still is from Nadia Hallgren’s 2021 film Omnipresence

The phenomenon of AI continues the controlling nature of apparently benign street lighting

Appropriating Amsterdam: against the smooth city

13 January 2021 By René Boer

Alternative forms of urbanism challenge the hegemony of the smooth city and…

AR September 2021: Light

31 August 2021 By AR Editors

Tadao Ando Architect & Associates | Bevk Perović Arhitekti | Lacaton &…

A man appears to kneel on the ground in front of a trailer vehicle plastered with a highly saturated image of the sun over the clouds

Editorial: brought to light

1 September 2021 By Manon Mollard, Eleanor Beaumont, Max L Zarzycki and Ellen Peirson

The AR’s September issue takes a closer look at architecture’s first love

a light vendor in the Bariga neighbourhood of Lagos sells hand-held battery powered light

Right to light: illuminating the city

2 September 2021 By Don Slater

The complex, layered ecologies of lighting in public spaces should be learnt…

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From pillar to lamp post: lighting city streets

7 September 2021 By Edwin Heathcote

The history of the street light traces the course of political turbulence…

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The violence of lighting in Khayelitsha

8 September 2021 By Stephanie Briers

High-mast lighting in Cape Town’s townships symbolises the racist and segregative infrastructures…

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