What’s the point of turning off the lights in cities at night? – Company

Because energy is to be saved everywhere, our cities are pitch-black at night in many places. Understandable, on the one hand. But urban life also needs bright, radiant places.

Anyone who grew up in Austria can probably remember the following schoolyard ritual. Someone pulled a bobble hat over your eyes and yelled: “The Emperor said save light!” There is hardly anyone between Vienna and Vorarlberg who did not experience this as a child or put it through another child. And while it’s a local phenomenon of youth culture, it represents something bigger. The call to save light touches on a collective trauma.