Flemish Coffee Bre@ks

Flemish Coffee Bre@ks are presented in Dutch

Flemish Coffee Bre@k January 2024 - City of Amsterdam - English

January 2024 Flemish Coffee Bre@k – Amsterdam

Nine steps to a darker city – Elsemieke Koole, Darkness manager

During this first Coffee Bre@k out of a new series, Elsemieke Koole presented nine steps that can help municipalities to reach a darker city. These steps were set up with the goal in mind to formulate, activate and enforce municipal darkness policy.

For Amsterdam, this is a work in progress, as not every step has been taken yet. An important aspect of reducing light pollution in the city is to engage residents, companies and institutions with the subject and to increase knowledge and awareness about light pollution, in order to be able to reduce all sources of light pollution.

Recently, Amsterdam launched a website on which residents can report an excessive amount of public lighting in their neighbourhood. In this way, residents help the municipality decreasing light pollution. Also, Amsterdam sets up pilots with dimmable lighting in the city, with the aim to reduce light intensity on a bigger scale.

May 2024 Flemish Coffee Bre@k – Arnhem

Lighting strategically: choices for a clear future – Marcel van Vliet, Senior manager public lighting and trolley infrastructure

During this Coffee Bre@k, Marcel van Vliet, took the audience through a presentation on a lighting plan and a strategy, on using luminaires that are prepared with smart components and can be used in the coming future for new innovations in public lighting.

This is not just about the technical aspects of public lighting; on the policy side, together they also had to look at lighting differently. How to deal with shop window lighting and advertising lighting in the city centre and how to integrate this with public lighting?

For the Municipality of Arnhem, this is a developing topic that they want to shape in the coming years. This will therefore have to be approached integrally with stakeholders.

May 2024 Flemish Coffee Bre@k - English
LUCI Coffee Break - Flemish September 2024 - English

September 2024 Flemish Coffee Bre@k – Leiden

Developing a new Public Lighting & Darkness policy at Leiden municipality with circular principles and participation – Peter van Oosterhout, Policy Officer for Public Lighting, Illumination and Darkness

Leiden needs a new public lighting policy plan with (even) more attention to darkness. The city develops this policy using 7 circular principles and public participation processes.

A quest involving various interests such as road safety, social safety, inclusion, image quality of the nightscape and sustainability.

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