Light, space, perception: Relationality and the design of the visual environment
Abstract
The role of light as the primary agent in sensory perception of the physical world has been the subject of study and debate since ancient times. Typically, these debates have often focused on the mechanisms of vision and the physiological processes of perception-how the eye "sees," how perception occurs, and where the process of visual perception takes place. In philosophy, science, art, and religion, light has been associated with seeing in the discourse of sensory perception of various visual phenomena. In the present publication, which is a translation of a scholarly article from English, the author substantiates the thesis that in the modern development of increasingly powerful forms of artificial light there is an increasing emphasis on the ability of light to guide, shape and reconfigure the visual environment. In this sense, in terms of modern architecture and interiors, artificial light is considered an unprecedented means of "shaping" and influencing human perception.
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