Do Metrics Matter?
Presentation / Conference
Innes, M., & Rosenfeld, S. (2019, May)
Do Metrics Matter?. Presented at LightFair International 2019, Philadelphia, USA
Lighting metrics are neither absolute quantitative nor purely qualitative experiential measurements. Possibly uniquely amongst the SI system of physical measurements, the Cand...
Lighting for Cities Inhabited by People, Not Cars: Community Co-Design and Creative Lighting
Conference Proceeding
Innes, M., & Winton, E. (2017)
Lighting for Cities Inhabited by People, Not Cars: Community Co-Design and Creative Lighting. In PLDC 6th Global Lighting Design Conference
Electric street lighting has developed wholly in the age of the motor car. Therefore, normal models of urban lighting are based firmly on designing for vehicle traffic. Standa...
True Colours: explorations in art, design and research
Conference Proceeding
Innes, M. (2017)
True Colours: explorations in art, design and research. In Color and Imaging Conference (309-312
Do you see colour the same way that I see colour? As my initial training was as an artist, it is possible that I look at colour very differently from someone with a scientific...
Lighting and Museum Exhibits
Book Chapter
Innes, M. (2017)
Lighting and Museum Exhibits. In C. Papadopoulos, & H. Moyes (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Light in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198788218.013.31
Museums exist to display and preserve valuable artefacts. Display lighting helps fulfil one of the main tenets of a museum, but excessive light causes irreparable damage to se...
The edges of lighting design: Research and practice on the fringes
Conference Proceeding
Innes, M. (2017)
The edges of lighting design: Research and practice on the fringes. In New Perspectives on the Future of Healthy Light and Lighting in Daily Life. , (16-21
If architectural lighting design is contained within a defined circle, then the edges are, at the very least, quite blurred. All kinds of other lighting practice has straddled...
Efficient or Effective
Journal Article
Innes, M. (2017)
Efficient or Effective. Lighting Magazine, 49(2), 100-107
Efficient or Effective: The contrast between these twin aspects of lighting cuts to the core of what it means to be a lighting designer. It poses the thorny question: what is ...
Unconventional Lighting
Presentation / Conference
Innes, M. (2016, November)
Unconventional Lighting
No abstract available.
Research on the Chemical and Colour Changes of Historically Important Light-Sensitive Dyestuffs during Accelerated Light Ageing with Filtered Visible Light
Working Paper
Quye, A., Han, J. & Innes, M. (2016)
Research on the Chemical and Colour Changes of Historically Important Light-Sensitive Dyestuffs during Accelerated Light Ageing with Filtered Visible Light
Lighting is a key factor for the display and preservation of cultural heritage materials. This research pioneers the chemical investigation of colourants aged by visible light...
How do you make a Lighting Designer?
Presentation / Conference
Innes, M. (2016, October)
How do you make a Lighting Designer?
The chemical effect of filtered visible light on light-sensitive dyes
Presentation / Conference
Quye, A., Han, J., & Innes, M. (2016, October)
The chemical effect of filtered visible light on light-sensitive dyes. Poster presented at Dyes in History and Archaeology 35 (DHA35), Pisa, Italy
Despite best efforts to remove damaging UV and short wavelength light from museum displays, dyes on historical textiles can still fade or change colour if visible light causes...