In addition to its practical functions, such as helping to optimize safety and security, lighting also has another principal task creating emotions. Light and color can be used to achieve the most varied and astonishing effects. These effects are dependent on the project and spatial environment, but they also depend in large measure on cultural context. This study is based on forty-seven interviews with leading lighting designers from North and South America, Europe, and Asia. For the first time, it explores in a systematic fashion what aesthetic, emotional,and atmospheric tasks a good lighting design can accomplish. The international diversity of the interviewed designers makes for surprising insights. Universal constants are pointed out, but so are the remarkable differences in reception and effect that are occasioned by different societies and cultures. It is imperative, then, for professional lighting designers and architects to familiarize themselves with these lighting cultures, and this book offers an informative and stimulating opportunity to do so

• Introduction Vincent Laganier & Jasmine van der Pol
• Lighting parameters to achieve emotion: Brightness
• Contrast in brightness
• Dynamics in brightness
• Colour
• Contrast in colour
• Dynamics in colour
• Direction
• Emotions
• Conversations with lighting designers: Nissar Allana, India
• Peter Andres, Germany
• Susanna Antico, Italy
• Gustavo Avilés, Mexico
• Francesca Bettridge & Stephen Bernstein, USA
• Manav Bhagava, India
• La Orchai Boonpiti, Thailand
• Ulrike Brandi, Germany
• Howard Brandston, USA
• Filippo Cannata, Italy
• Jaspreet Chandhok & Vilas Prabhu, India
• Ray Chen, Taiwan
• Acharawan Chutarat, Thailand
• Elias Cisneros Avila, Mexico
• Cinzia Ferrara, Italy
• Carlos Fortes, Brazil
• Peter Gasper, Brazil
• Paul Gregory, USA
• Jürgen Hassler, Germany
• Jonathon Hodges, UK
• Barbara Horton, USA
• Philippe Hutinet, France
• Mee Jeong, South Korea
• Yann Kersalé, France
• Kuyoung Ko, South Korea
• Heayun Lee, South Korea
• Ta-Wei Lin, Taiwan

• Mônica Lobo, Brazil
• Luis Lozoya, Mexico
• Martin Lupton, UK
• Paul Marantz, USA
• Kaoru Mende, Japan
• Francois Migeon, France
• Antonio Mingrone, Brazil
• Roger Narboni, France
• Enrique Peiniger & Jean Sundin, USA
• Michel Pieroni, France
• Vannapa Pimviriyakul, Thailand
• Michael F. Rohde, Germany
• Tapio Rosenius, UK
• Andreas Schulz, Germany
• Kevan Shaw, UK
• Hiroyasu Shoji, Japan
• Francesca Storaro, Italy
• Satoshi Uchihara, Japan
• Dolly & Anil Valia, India
• Patrick Woodroffe, UK
• Research overview: Research summary
• Emotion is fundamental in lighting design
• Context focused design
• Personal profile
• Inspiration sources
• Honour original idea versus reinvention