The Lighting Design Lab at Aalborg University is inviting researchers, practitioners, designers, artists, and students to contribute to Light Symposium 2026 by submitting an abstract for a full paper or a conference presentation engaging with the theme Sensing Light. The symposium explores light beyond illumination – as a dynamic, measurable, perceptual, and experiential phenomenon. By focusing on light sensing, we highlight how contemporary tools, methods, and experiences allow us to better understand how light is perceived, interpreted, and responded to by humans, non-human life, and environments.
Why submit?
- Share your scientific work with an international, interdisciplinary audience.
- Present case studies, design projects, empirical research, creative works, or emerging ideas.
Two abstract submission tracks:
- Abstract for full papers (peer-reviewed, presented, and full paper to be published in the conference proceedings: IOP series earth and environmental science) or
- Abstract for presentation-only contributions (peer-reviewed presentations including case studies, design work, reflections, and artistic proposals).
Please note that authors may indicate their preferred track after the abstract has been reviewed and accepted.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Daylight and Dynamic Lighting Design
- Light, Health and Wellbeing
- Adaptive and Responsive Lighting Systems
- Perception, Cognition and Experience of Light
- Data-Driven and Smart Lighting Environments
- Darkness-Aware and Low-Light Design
- Urban, Cultural and Social Lighting
- Artistic, Experiential and Communicative Light
- Measurement, Sensing and Evaluation of Light
- Methods and Education in Lighting Research
Abstract submission deadline: 1 April 2026
Submit at: https://ls2026.aau.dk
