What is being challenged is the persistence of old (and lazy) box-ticking attitudes, originally deriving from codes and guidelines. Tese are generally produced for the non- specialist, and are primarily created – as Raynham, former long-term author of the Code for Lighting, memorably once put it – ‘to stop bad lighting rather than to promote good lighting’. It is also worth
‘Ambient lighting is real human-centric lighting’
mentioning that the phrase ‘working plane’ has not been mentioned in a Code since 1994, but somehow its spirit seems to linger.
Te problem is that, as lighting a space gets more complex in its considerations, the need to quantify it in some way seems to multiply. As the four academics touch on, not only are we wrestling to arrive at meaningful ways
