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1 BACKGROUND Current implementation of LD and CL in the Danish health care sector has only been evaluated to a minimal extend or not at all. In the implementa- tion process of integrating LD in the new super hospitals, the main focus has been on improving sleep quality. This applies for both patients and the professional staff. Until now, research in circadian lighting has shown positive outcomes in fields as Dementia, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), jet lag, stabilising dai- ly rhythm in night time workers and hopefully future research will show ben- efits in treatment of related illnesses. Alzheimer, bipolar disease, depression and anxiety are already in the scope and by initiating a study of patients with severe eating disorders, it is anticipated that lighting design can play a role in the future treatment. Eating disorders (ED) is a group of serious mental illnesses, all related to body weight and food intake. All forms of eating disorders are possibly dan- gerous, but severe AN has the highest mortality rate. Patients struggle with this nutrition and control based anxiety, that can seem incomprehensible to outsiders, but facts state that more than 70% of ED patients will never fully recover and the treatment is to this day very experimental (Anoreksi, prog- nose - Patienthåndbogen - sundhed.dk, no date). Currently, the only com- mon denominator is to use cognitive therapy and to shape the treatment until something works. (Interview E, 00:22:09) Every time something is designed, the end user should be in focus, so un- derstanding the disease became an important objective in the process of working with the lighting design. People have different needs, depending on age, cultural background, state of mind and internal body clock and this also applies to ED patients. (Zavada et al., 2005) Different segments will react in different ways, so it was especially important to learn, and under- stand the mindset and behaviour of people struggling with ED. The more you learn about ED, the harder it is to understand how something as instinc- tive as eating can become ones worst enemy and in some cases, be mortal. ”Everything you can imagine is real” Pablo Picasso (footnote**) This short sentence can be interpreted as both freedom and prison. When your imagination is used for freedom and creativity, all is good, but as liber- ating as this statement might seem, a person that suffers from anxiety may have a different take on the freedom of believing in their imagination than Pablo Picasso, when he said this. When you believe that food is your enemy and spend every second of the day trying to control your calorie intake and everything you put in your mouth, your imagination can become a prison. When ED gets out of hand, this control issue will start affecting more than weight loss. Soon, the general state of health will be challenged emotionally, somatically and cognitively. Master thesis · MSc Lighting Design · Pernille Bech-Larsen · Fall 2017 9PDF Image | Healing with light
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