We live in a world where sight is pondered, possible only thanks to light, over the other senses. In the most natural way, the world is presented to us bathed in subtle changes of light nuances. Daylight gives us shelter as it provides heat and en­ergy. Light means life.

The architect’s, industrial designer’s or the city planner’s presumptuous job to transform the world and display it before the public eye –either consciously or not–, implies the creation and modification of the different lighting that comes along with these changes. The outcome becomes more relevant in perception rather than the traditional concepts with which our scientific mind associates design as matter, composition or layout.

Light means progress, modernity, subduing darkness, night, the magical and the unknown. However, the magical, now hand-in-hand with the woderful and sublime, is found in the night lighting shows. A cultural image of the modern city without the night lighting of its billboards or its auto­mobiles running by is unimaginable. Lighting has brightened up our lives, lives embedded in the monotony of a metropolis, it has returned a certain amount of illusion and fascination for the magic-like things. The current night urban experience is based on a lighting show.

For the future of our disciplines, it must be taken into account that light, natural and artificial, and its different shades, allows us to see the same object from different perspectives. This means that an object created in space is simultaneously, as many others, as the various forms in which light is imprinted upon it. This experience provokes in us a wide range of emo­tions that continuously modify our material world: our sub­jects of study are never static and unchangeable.