{"id":58,"date":"2014-01-19T22:41:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T03:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2014-01-19T22:43:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T03:43:31","slug":"back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Back to School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prediction is for a cold and snowy day in Brooklyn as my students and I return to \u00a0Pratt after the winter break. \u00a0This semester will be the final pass through the PowerPoint slides that will be available to instructors on Wiley&#8217;s web site. \u00a0It will also be, by my count, the 20th spring teaching this material.<\/p>\n<p>At this point I assume that the only people reading this blog are my students (it&#8217;s only been active for about six hours!) so let me repeat what I say at the beginning of every semester &#8211; This is for you. \u00a0I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">know<\/span> that a lighting design can have a profound impact on the way users view, experience, and interact with a space. \u00a0The goal of the semester is to help you to know it, too, and to give you the vocabulary, an understanding of the tools, and a structure (actually several structures) to frame your lighting design goals. \u00a0If there&#8217;s something I can do to help you with those goals, talk to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prediction is for a cold and snowy day in Brooklyn as my students and I return to \u00a0Pratt after the winter break. \u00a0This semester will be the final pass through the PowerPoint slides that will be available to instructors on Wiley&#8217;s web site. \u00a0It will also be, by my count, the 20th spring teaching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=58\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back to School<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-back-to-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gZSw-W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":537,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=537","url_meta":{"origin":58,"position":0},"title":"Who Needs A Lighting Designer?","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"November 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"No I\u2019m not begging for work (although I am available for weddings and bar mitzvahs). 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