Everyone deserves good lighting and beneficial darkness, particularly indoors, where most of us spend most of our time. Good lighting is an investment in occupant satisfaction, well-being, and productivity. On Friday April 5, 2024, in collaboration with Light Justice, event partners the IES and Parsons School of Design, will hold a symposium to explore how indoor lighting quality – especially in public facilities – is generally neglected for marginalized, under-resourced, and vulnerable occupants.

This event builds on last year’s “Light + Justice Symposium,” which examined the intersection of outdoor lighting in the public realm with environmental justice and social equity. Indoors, Light Justice means daylighting and electric lighting designed to provide a positive occupant experience. “Light + Justice Symposium: Interior Spaces” is an opportunity for lighting professionals to recognize inequities that can perpetuate inequitable indoor lighting for vulnerable occupants, including people of color, the aging, the impaired, and the incarcerated.

Panels including lighting, design, and outreach experts will discuss both the challenges and benefits of addressing these systemic inequities as an industry, and offer case studies which engage these communities to provide equitable lighting for affordable housing and other facilities.