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10. Jun. 2024: Abel Sepúlveda Luque attended the BUILDSIM NORDIC 2024 Conference at Aalto University, Finland. Abel proposed a novel methodology for dynamic glare evaluation based on wearable micro-cameras. He highlighted the importance of using the proposed methodology to HDR images from wearable micro-cameras, since daylight glare discomfort can be highly underestimated.

30-31. May. 2024: Caroline Karmann and Priji Balakrishnan attended the annual meeting of the Daylight Academy (DLA) in Trondheim. This year's meeting focused on how daylight and light can contribute to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Durant the conference, Caroline Karmann was elected as new member of the DLA. She looks forward to collaborating with this highly interdisciplinary community.

23. May. 2024: Priji Balakrishnan was invited to present her paper on "Trees in Daylight Simulation – Measuring and Modelling Realistic Light Transmittance through Trees at the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) educational webinar series for the International Day of Light Research Webinar, which focused on daylighting. The event featured presentations by authors of three recent papers published in LEUKOS, covering various aspects of daylight and daylighting.

08-10. Apr. 2024: Priji Balakrishnan attended the Sky over BerLin Training School – HARMONIA’s Aerosol Measurements Workshop. Hosted by the Deutscher Wetterdienst and organized with the Freie Universität Berlin, the event aimed to enhance understanding of atmospheric aerosols. Participants engaged in hands-on activities, learned from leading scientists, and explored innovative research methodologies.

06. Mar. 2024: AIL proposed the seminar "Designing a space for someone unlike you", which brought together several people with disabilities - student assistants and external guests with different types of disabilities - and placed them as experts of accessibility. The same persons also joined the final session to assess the projects of the students, which were asked to not only design accessible buildings but also present their ideas in an accessible format. It was a pleasure to get everyone in one room for this final session.

03. Mar. 2024: Priji Balakrishnan attended the Light + Building international meeting and trade fair held in Frankfurt from 3 to 8th March 2024. Light + Building brings together manufacturers and experts from the lighting, electrical engineering, home and building automation sectors.

04. Mar. 2024: SaeBom Song and Jingying Dong took part in the regional conference on inclusive design organized by the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects. The talks given by the guests focused in particular on demographic change, accessible residential buildings cases and other built examples that include community thinking.

Jan. 2024: Priji started to work as a postdoctoral researcher in the AIL research group.  Her current research centres on characterising location-specific daylight for predicting visual and non-visual effects of light. 

Jan. 2024:  Zhibin started to work as research collaborator in the AIL research group. His research interests include key interdisciplinary fundamental issues in the fields of comfort and energy efficiency, human physiology, and health under the multifactorial coupling of the built environment.

Febr. 2024:  Zeynep started to work as a Post-doc researcher in the AIL research group. Her research as part of AIL focuses on understanding interdependent interactions of disabled people with assistive technologies and space, from the Disability Justice perspective.

29. Jan. 2024: Caroline Karmann was invited to discuss "How are we going to live in 2040?" alongside Simone Wörner-Justies and Maria-Xenia Hardt (moderator). Topics covered included ecology and sustainable construction, universal design and housing cooperatives.

LS 2023

4-6. Dec. 2023: Jingying Dong attended Lighting Symposium 2023 in Stockholm.

16. Oct. 2023: Saebom started to work as research assistant in the AIL research group. She is now actively developing innovative digital mapping methods and knowledge transfer methods to build trust between society and academia. 

06. Oct. 2023: Orienting, moving and connecting - The O-phase project "Playful Architecture" playfully explored the search for and design of places in the Faculty of Architecture that are suitable for relaxing, moving around or socializing after intensive periods of study. The project involved exploration, testing and playful staging with film and props. We are pleased to have won the award for the best O-Phase in the new semester.

20. Sep. 2023: Abel Sepulveda Luque attended virtually the 41st eCAADe Conference at Graz University of Technology, Austria. Abel presented his research about comparison between machine learning and prediction formulas to design healthy dwellings in a cold climate. He highlighted the importance of training properly the machine learning model, and he concluded that the best approach would depend on the designer criterion: accuracy in daylight and thermal comfort calculations or design speed.

18. Sep. 2023: Caroline Karmann and Abel Sepulveda Luque attended the 30th Quadrennial Session of the CIE in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Caroline presented on the variation in non‐image forming effects of light at the workplace. This work is based on field studies in two open plan offices with different orientations and during different seasons. 

28. Aug. 2023: Abel Sepulveda Luque attended the 21st International Radiance Workshop Innsbruck, Austria. Abel participated in a workshop to learn how to use the cloud-based simulation tool Pollination, visited the company “Bartenbach - The Lighting Innovators” and witnessed the cutting-edge research in the topic of daylight simulation (i.e. glare discomfort, daylight availability, complex fenestration systems, non-visual effects, simulation methods, etc)

02. Jul. 2023: Caroline Karmann took part in the UIA World Congress of Architects. With the theme “Sustainable Futures – Leave No One Behind”, the congress ambition was to shed light on architecture's potential to shape better societies and contribute to a sustainable future. The science track "Design for inclusivity" highlighted the themes of accessibility and universal design, which were well represented at the event.

02. Jul. 2023: Caroline Karmann visited the Chair of Lighting Technology at the Technical University Berlin (TUB) for a research exchange with TUB and Gdansk University of Technology (PG), Poland.  The research exchange covered topics of virtual reality, light and its effect on non-image forming effects, generating location specific sky models and overview of research activities of the respective labs at TUB, KIT and PG

14. Jun. 2023: Caroline Karmann attended the 18th Healthy Buildings 2023 which took place in Aachen. The aim of this venue is to research on sustainable solutions for a healthy and sustainable indoor environment. Caroline attended many sessions on visual and acoustics comfort.

30. May. 2023: Caroline Karmann took part in the DLA Annual Conference 2023 which took place on 1-2 June 2023 at EPFL in Lausanne. The conference was focused on how rhythms of daylight shape life across seasons and latitudes.

The lab of Architecture & Intelligent Living (AIL) is seeking for participants.

20. Apr. 2023: The Laboratory for Architecture and Intelligent Living is participating in the IEB Science Week "Aesthetics Technology and Innovation" at Triangle (Kronenplatz, Karlsruhe). 

07. Jun. 2023: Caroline Karmann was invited to the Forum romand de l'éclairage et de la domotique (FRED) in Lausanne. As the first speaker of the day, her presentation focused on visual comfort and the well-being of spaces.

01. Mar. 2023:  Abel started to work as post-doc researcher in the AIL research group. He is now investigating novel experiment-based methodologies to study satisfactory thresholds for different aspects of daylight in buildings: view out, daylight provision, sunlight exposure, and glare protection.

08. Feb. 2023: Prof. Dr. Caroline Karmann presented on her inaugural lecture.

22. Dec. 2022: Caroline Karmann appears in KIT news: Digital technologies and building for an inclusive society

PLEA2022

22. Nov. 2022: Caroline Karmann chairs the online session “Architecture for Health and Well-being” at the 36th Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) conference. 

07. Nov. 2022: Jingying Dong started to work in the AIL research group. She is now working on the thesis pertaining to improve inclusive and restorative design in built environment, where lighting and sound take important roles to benefit living experience for visual impaired groups.

17. Oct. 2022: Alexandra Riemann started to work in the AIL research group. She is now contributing to social topics and trainings related to violence prevention and de-escalation.

Light Symposium 2022

Caroline Karmann is attending the Light Symposium (LS2022) in Copenhagen. She is presenting on glare and illuminance evaluation of seasonal solar control and daylight redirecting glazing. 

Caroline Karmann has been appointed to the professorship of Architecture and Intelligent Living at the Institute of Design and Building Technology.