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The main objective of this work is to determine if lighting can help triggering emotions in the inhabitants, and if so, if it can be achieved through design. For this, a literature review of several authors, such as Sztulwark, Rose, Chaves, Lozoya and Crilly among others was needed. This was seen through an interdisciplinary approach where several concepts were translated to the lighting design field, built from others, and linked to make them useful for this purpose. The understanding of this concepts will help as a tool to understand the relation between lighting and emotions. Concepts such as context, artifact, use and function will take an important role. Subjects such as communication and the importance of language, as well as the inhabitant’s interpretation of the space and its lighting will be touched. Light will be treated as a material and lighting as an artifact with which the inhabitant has a direct contact. The relation of lighting and emotions will be seen differently than that of a direct action-reaction. It was found that the
thoroughly understanding of context was the link between light and emotions that should be understood and worked, although the expected result will not always be successful.
