Let The Night Sky Shine Through

Lighting Technology nowadays surely has driven away the darkness at night for us human-beings. However, the excessive use of it could easily take away the starry nights and moonlight from us, and later on cause the light pollution at night. That’s how moonlight, originated from the daylight, thus faded.

With the “night-time economy” blooming, the light pollution at night in the cities has caused a series of ecological problems for both nature and human beings. Physical and psychological disorders coming along with our inner equilibrium tumbling, we barely get a chance again to stare at a dark and deep night sky as it could’ve been just like somewhere else back in nature. What’s worse, our later generations may never get to experience the moonlight in person. It’s high time we woke up before things get too late.

What we’re trying to do is to create a possibility where we can see a world bathed in total moonlight without being disturbed. The truth is, the moonlight has never abandoned us. It is as bright as it was thousands of years ago. But as people keep lighting up the night, the moonlight gradually disappears and hide behind the artificial light. We’re not trying to bring back moonlight by enhancing or simulating it. Instead, we wanted to weaken the artificial light of the city at night in a visual way, so as to represent the world under the moonlight.

We know that the filter technology is very mature now, which can accurately filter the light of a specific wavelength. This technology has been applied to photographic filters. Therefore, we decided to set up a huge filter lens in the public spaces of the city, through which people can gaze at a world simply decorated by the stars and the moonlight, where we can once again embrace a night sky used to be familiar to us.

We cannot get rid of the light pollution all at once. What we’re trying to do first, is to present a fierce contrast of two worlds at night, one flamboyant with artificial lights, another natural as the way it is. We’re trying to wake up some sentiments that we human-beings have always had towards nature, so as to alleviate the pain of being separated from nature.

Ultimately, we’re trying to provide these perspectives:1. A retrospection into our past where we spent our nights staring at the moon and stars, realizing how far we’ve come by now.2. An introspection of our present, remembering how much we truly love our nature, meanwhile how little have we done to protect it.3. A perspective, an urgent call for being aware of what the light pollution at night could do to our near future.

After all, nature, that’s where we came from as designers, and where we’ll ultimately head back to as human-beings.