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Darkness is not shadow. Shadow is cast. recalibrating the way we live in sunlight. And most Darkness is not black. Black absorbs light. Dark probably, it’s not even about sunlight, but about ness is a change of state. We stop seeing and reduction of heat. Darkness is a necessary source of regeneration for our bodies start sensing. We cease to and for the planet. Darkness perceive light. We cease – it’s much harder to shoot is also a medium in which we to perceive with our eyes, someone when it’s completely can establish an exchange but perceive with all other Hour. t dark! In the Twiligh with other entities (alive or senses. not) on a basis beyond visual An Interview with Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Snøhetta, by perception. To define darkness Rob Wilson. In: Uncube 29. beyond the semantics of What, therefore, is the negation, of lack of light, When our vision is compro nature of darkness?1 What we need to think outside mised, our imaginations run a deep-rooted cultural tra is the ecological function of and we become more darkness? How can archi dition of seeing light as a wild be source of benefit. Light is aware of things that cannot tecture benefit from it? With good – darkness is bad. seen directly, merely sensed. these questions in mind, we Light is safe – darkness Sigri Sandberg, An Ode to Darkness postulate that in darkness is dangerous. The onset may lie an opportunity to re of climate change and the invent our built environment, subsequent overheating of our environment and a rich source for speculation about post-good compel us to reconsider the positive connotation weather societies. In darkness, entities radiate of light and daylight. It goes without saying that heat and cool down. In darkness, visibility blurs for human life, a lack of sunlight would possibly but sensitivity sharpens. cause our bodies to deteriorate (although it wouldn’t kill us). It’s not about that. It’s about Luciano Parodi
