BODY TALK

摘要

My lecture to the ILP at the Royal Over-Seas League in London in October was a follow-on to my presentation to the 2015 Professional Lighting Summit in Chester. The first presentation, I am pleased to say, proved very popular with ILP members - so much so, in fact, that before my lecture I was honoured to be presented with the award for 'Best Professional Lighting Summit paper' by ILP President Kevin Grigg. More widely, the lecture was an opportunity for me to revisit and reiterate some of the themes I highlighted in Chester, namely that the links between lighting and health -vision, perception, gait, balance, taste, smell and movement - are not well enough understood by lighting professionals. Moreover, the effect lighting can have on a range of conditions - Parkinson's, autism, dyspraxia, and dyslexia, to name but a few - can be significant. The effects can be hugely beneficial when lighting is got right but, equally, 'wrong' lighting can often have a seriously negative, even debilitating, effect.