When was the last time you 'felt' light? Standing on a scale, in your heart or through your conscience—light-headed, light-hearted or enlightened are responses to stimuli that one receives - whether physical, metaphysical or metaphorical. In what ways does light abstract or set ablaze our realities? As almost a fifth of the world's human population celebrates the festival of light this week, we look into our recent archives to highlight newer 'ways of seeing' in this issue.

Through Juhani Pallasmaa's notion of 'ocularcentric culture', we question the presence of a hierarchy of senses and a disproportionate emphasis on visual facets in architecture. 'One Hundred Thousand Suns', a four-channel video installation by artist Rohini Devasher radiates with astronomical

research communities, systems of knowledge, history as well as theories of seeing.

Italian lighting designer Davide Groppi speaks about the motifs of simplicity and weightlessness in his designs, describing them as 'acts of disobedience in the name of innovation.' Lastly, STIR's latest column helmed by Katie Treggiden might start to answer what has become a guiding light in her work, and the column's subject: can craft save the world?

Light. Our oldest friend we see anew each time. How it infuses us, how we bear it and what it means to us, reflects our strive to embrace our many ways of being. It is already, always, inevitably here.