The new domestic landscape: lighting design

In recent years, the advent of new Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has constituted an unprecedented element of technological innovation for the design of the domestic landscape, with some quite significant implications for both lighting design and personal wellbeing. This layer of design, in the new domestic landscape, concerns the design methodologies and technologies available for the use of not only lighting designers, but also the huge variety of makers and DIYers within this vast creative sphere. Nowadays, makers are defined as independent designers who design and produce their own custom projects either for themselves or to sell to other people. Their approach to design is based on continuous experimentation - different, then, from the logic of economy of scale - with a view to forging a new relationship with design which often has its roots in open-source and openproject systems such as Home Assistant and openHAB, which are now becoming increasingly common in the domestic context. In the history of design, selfproduction and DIY have constituted a well-established segment for many years now, with a significance that has progressively expanded over time, branching out into various product sectors including – very recently, thanks to the advent of LED technologies – lighting; also, with the advent of voice assistants, this trend has accelerated even further in the home environment.