Lighting - a powerful tool in MTR design
Lighting is a powerful tool in Microsoft Teams Room design - it affects efficiency and positive behaviours. Lighting represents a weakness - and opportunity - to MTR practitioners.
In my lighting practice, there’s much talk around Circadian Rhythms, which refers to the human response to the changing colour temperatures in daylight from dawn to dusk.
This is why your smartphone can be set to cut blue light in the evenings, to allow production of melatonin as part of our natural sleep cycles. The blue component is associated with higher colour temperatures (>4000K) when the sun is high in the sky.
The debate around Circadian Rhythm is push-pull. Should we, say, expose room occupants to bright lighting (>500lx) during the to boost them through the body clock’s usual afternoon lull? Or should we supply interior lighting that tracks the day’s natural cycle? (One would imagine it’s the former at the Tesla factory!)
The historical reason that lighting does not fall within the aegis of AV managers, consultants and integrators is that it falls within the silos of the architects and facilities managers. Which is why AV often struggles as a result of inappropriate lighting. Which is why this has to change.
In my consulting practice, a small but important element is often working with architects, lighting designers and facilities management to explain - in their own language - the lighting schema required to make technology-enhanced workspaces work optimally for best user experiences and AV technology deployment.
Posted: 30th November 2022