barbara jansen - BADA
barbara jansen - BADA
barbara jansen - BADA
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Time – Light<br />
Warum ziehen gewisse Dinge im Zeitlupentempo an uns vorbei …<br />
warum scheint Zeit manchmal endlos langsam vor sich her zu schleichen,<br />
wie ein endlos gezogenes Gummiband …<br />
+ manchmal ist sie im Nu vorbei,<br />
schon vorbei,<br />
bevor es richtig angefangen hat.<br />
Why do certain things pass by in slow motion …<br />
why sometimes seems time to sidle endless slowly,<br />
like and endless stretched out rubber band ..<br />
+ sometimes it’s over in a blink,<br />
already over,<br />
before it has even started yet.<br />
Time and light, light and time are intrinsically tied to each other. In TimeLight,<br />
Federico Favero defines,“… Light as Time provider signal“ (Favero, 2008,<br />
page 5), “The cycle of light and dark is the most compelling physical phenomena<br />
that provide variation on earth. The presence and absence of light<br />
is the first feature of time, giving name to day and night. The presence of the<br />
sun and its continuous change of position produce variations on the natural<br />
and built environment. These series of perceived variations create physical<br />
connections between the light source, the surfaces in the space, and us; these<br />
associations are at the basis of our feeling of time.” (Favero, 2008, page 18)<br />
Furthermore he describes, that only through daylight variations (position of<br />
sun, variation of light colour, changes through clouds etc.)we are able to perceive<br />
change and with it the passage of time.<br />
This thesis has investigated how to develop a first understanding of time<br />
as a design material in order to compose time-based patterns in and through<br />
the use of light. Can you really name time a new design material? I do think<br />
so, by giving light a time durations, i.e. activating and turning it off via fading<br />
and holding over a specific amount of time, the foundation for time-based<br />
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