It’s a difficult situation: the people who are afraid of darkness are not the same people creating policies on restoring darkness. Decisions on whatever is needed to prevent crime in dark open spaces that are often being made by people who don’t experience those threatening situations.
John Bullock and Michael Colligan debate how to avoid knee-jerk reactions to crime, yet still make people feel safe at night.
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Michael Colligan is an entrepreneur and inventor. He’s a subject matter expert in commercial and industrial lighting supply, lighting retrofits, and finding recycling streams for hard-to-recycle waste.
John Bullock is a UK-based lighting designer who has been in the lighting industry for close to 50 years. He established John Bullock Lighting Design in 1998.
The Get A Grip On Lighting “Restoring Darkness” podcast on lightED is sponsored by Evluma.
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