Flemish Coffee Bre@ks are presented in Dutch
☕ January 2025 Flemish Coffee Bre@k – The Hague
Accessibility and safety, pillars of The Hague’s lighting vision – highlighting the Museum Quarter – Eugène Sauren, Urban planning, Municipality of the Hague & Ritsert Huijsman, Lighting designer, Studio DL
As the Royal City and an international hub for peace and security, The Hague is home to many national and international organizations, services, and embassies, welcoming numerous visitors. Hospitality is, therefore, an important theme. Public lighting can contribute to a hospitable city by fostering a sense of accessibility and safety on the streets.
This presentation focused on the public lighting policy, with a spotlight on the new lighting in the Museum Quarter, the historical heart of the city. A refined composition that adds a new dimension to the nighttime experience, this strong project owes its success to internal support and the involvement of local stakeholders and residents.
☕ 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.
☕ 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.
☕ 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.
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