{"id":113141,"date":"2024-08-09T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T19:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=bu-article&p=113141"},"modified":"2024-08-28T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:26:15","slug":"lighting-design-automation-shipley-grant","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/news\/articles\/2024\/lighting-design-automation-shipley-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipley Center Grant Expands Access to New Lighting Design Technology in School of Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Shipley Accelerating Classroom Transformation funding is supporting equitable access to state-of-the-art theatre lighting automation technology<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n
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Providing equitable access to cutting-edge technologies for School of Theatre lighting automation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lighting is an ephemeral medium, making it difficult to teach and discuss in the classroom. Educators need tools and methods that let them reify course concepts and provide ways for students to communicate their ideas back to them. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the Light Lab, located within Boston University\u2019s Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre<\/a> and the College of Fine Arts (CFA) Production Center<\/a>, light can become a tangible thing where visual ideas can be explored in a small, controlled environment. However, student-owned personal computing equipment is insufficient to work with a lighting visualizer at the scale and level of detail students would like, and the expense of purchasing the equipment creates an equity barrier for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe goal of this project is to establish a theatrical lighting pre-visualization suite for the Design and Production program in the School of Theatre.\u201d<\/div>