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Interacting with Daylight Mini-Series – Episode 1: Geolocation

Interacting with Daylight Mini-Series – Episode 1: Geolocation

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Light O'Clock

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A podcast on light and your body clock

Wissenschaft Gesundheit & Fitness

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mspitschan

In this first episode of our new Interacting with Daylight
mini-series, your host Caro is joined by Anna and Priji to
discuss the Daylight Interaction Project, funded by the Daylight
Academy. The project explores how people interact with daylight
in everyday life and how this is shaped by factors such as
location, built environments, culture and behaviours.

The episode focuses on the first part of their framework:
Location. Through interview snippets recorded during the Daylight
Academy Summer School in beautiful Chexbres, Switzerland, the
hosts reflect on how geography, climate, temperature and
landscape can influence experiences of daylight.

Interviewees come from diverse locations and latitudes:
Singapore, Norway, Rochester (USA), and Costa Rica — offering
perspectives on topics such as seasonal daylight changes,
tropical versus northern light environments, and associations
with sunlight and darkness.

Links and resources:

Anna and Priji’s publication describing their framework:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00159-5

Visualisation of the framework’s “bubbles”:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-024-00159-5/figures/3

More about the Daylight Academy (DLA) Project:
https://daylight.academy/projects/daylight-interactions/

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro: the Daylight Interaction Project

(10:20) Project summary and interviewees

(13:51) Geolocation: latitudes, climatic zones, seasons,
geographical context

(19:51) Snippets: associations with daylight and darkness

(30:50) Daylight as a placemaking tool

(34:21) Daylight vs sunlight

(37:55) Snippets: Seasonal changes and colours

(53:05) Reflections on seasonality

(59:33) Episode summary

(01:02:00) Outro: darkness associations