Lighting Design for indoor hydroponic systems

Due to growing urbanisation and the world's urban population, access to natural environments, in city areas, is increasingly limited. Here, lifestyles lead to spending much of time indoors and, this condition was exacerbated by conflicts and pandemics. In this context, designers reflect on new ways of re-establishing connections with Nature. Hydroponic systems represent a possibility for restoring this beneficial contact and a way for the realization of sustainable food production. My research, in collaboration with SLAMP, will investigate the role of light in indoor hydroponic systems. Through an interdisciplinary approach will be stimulated the convergence between bio- inspired systems with those more technologically advanced, for the design of an integrated lighting system that enables optimal living conditions for plants and humans. Currently moving in a preliminary research phase, the aim is, with the support of experts from different fields, to realize a prototype, analyse its effects and, finally, disseminate the results.