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Commercial Design looks into why lighting automation is fast gaining a foothold, and how it’s bringing a tremendous change from the conventional systems in the post-covid world

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Covid-19 has turned our personal lives and working worlds upside down. After months of forced participation in a comprehensive work-from-home experiment, our expectations around work and the workplace have fundamentally changed accelerating a trend already evident over the past two decades.

Like much else, the way we illuminate the spaces we inhabit is set to change along with our changed priorities after the pandemic. Pre-existing trends in workplace wellbeing, biophilia and online communication has already accelerated, while new uses of retail spaces, the high street and even the home will emerge. The design of lighting will have to respond to these shifts so that it plays a key role in articulating our new built environment.