museum lighting

Light Narratives: Adaptive Museum Lighting as Spatial Communication

This research investigates the role of adaptive lighting in contemporary museum environments, where light is no longer understood only as illumination, but as a narrative and poetic medium.

In museum spaces, light can reveal, conceal, direct, pause, and intensify. It creates atmospheres, evokes memory, and shapes the rhythm of perception. Through subtle changes in brightness, shadow, colour temperature, and movement, adaptive lighting systems allow exhibitions to respond to the visitor, the artwork, and the unfolding experience of space.

The project approaches light as a silent form of communication; technical in its structure, yet deeply emotional in its effect.

DEPALO S., Light narratives: adaptive museum lighting as a medium of artistic expression and communication, International Scientific and Professional Conference Politehnika 2025, Thematic Section Editors, Belgrade: The Academy of Applied Studies Polytechnic, 2025, pp 823-829, ISBN 978-86-7498-146-7