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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.