Zero Lux(e) ECAL/Guillaume Simmen

Project by ECAL/Guillaume Simmen

Tutors: Alain Bellet, Pauline Saglio, Gaël Hugo, Christophe Guignard

Assistants : Laura Perrenoud, Tibor Udvari, Pietro Alberti, Callum Ross

ECAL / University of Art and Design, Lausanne Switzerland

Bachelor Media & Interaction Design

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Light pollution is a nuisance that humans don’t notice. But it disrupts the eco-system of thousands of species. The objective of my project is to turn off night lighting in rural areas.

It is composed of three tools, a DIY geolocated luxmeter to measure the pollution of its village, a DIY box to place under a streetlight that allows to alert the municipality, and the website that gathers the collected information and that also serves as a support to mobilize people.

This project has shown me how I can help in important causes.