IALD Nordic to celebrate International Day of Light 2021 with special PechaKucha event
(Nordics) - To mark the UNESCO International Day of Light 2021 on 18th May, the Nordic chapter of the IALD is hosting a virtual PechaKucha and networking event, sponsored by Lutron.
Inspired by the meme series “What People Think I Do/What I Really Do”, which plays on the range of preconceptions associated with a particular field of expertise, the session will compare the varying impressions people have of the lighting industry. This will include opinions held by others, self-image, and how this compares to the reality of the job and will aim to raise awareness as to the importance of lighting design.
The event is a recognised 50:50 event supporting Women in Lighting, and will feature six speakers from across the lighting spectrum.
Keynote speaker Aleksandra Stratimirovic is a visual artist based in Stockholm, Sweden, and is active in the world of art and light, having created a number of permanent and temporary site-specific artworks both internationally and across Sweden. Her work has featured in hospitals, school campuses, railway stations, residential areas and light art festivals, and has also been included in exhibitions at Noor Riyadh; Guggenheim Museum New York; and various other institutions across 15 countries.
Other speakers taking part in the PechaKucha include:
Jesper Ravn, architect and lighting designer, Gottlieb Paludan Architects, Denmark
Jari Vuorinen, Founding Partner, lighting Design Collective, Finland
Ute Besenecker, Associate Professor, KTH, Sweden
Darío Núñez Salazar, lighting designer, Verkis, Iceland
Katia Valerie Banoun, Director, Lyskultur, Norway
The session will take place at 5.30PM CEST on 18th May. Registration for the event is now open. Participants can register here.
Lightfair to sponsor IES’s “Light for Life” Webinar Series
(USA) – Lightfair 2021 is supporting partner organisation the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) in facilitating a global conversation on the impact of light through its sponsorship of the “Light for Life” webinar series, taking place 10-13 May.
“With the postponement of the 2021 Lightfair conference until this October, sponsoring Light for Life allows us to continue to provide lighting professionals with educational opportunities this spring,” said Dan Darby, Lightfair Show Director. “By partnering with IES for Light for Life we are able to reach our global audience until we gather again.”
Brienne Musselman, IES Director of Education, added: “Light for Life was introduced in 2020 as a way to strengthen the connection among the global lighting community during a very uncertain time. Participation was so impressive, it was a natural progression to facilitate the series for a second year. We’re so excited about this year’s programme and are grateful to be able to partner with Lightfair to deliver this content to our community.”
Light for Life is a global series of webinars that explores the impact of light on the lives of humans, plants and animals. As hosts of this collaborative webinar series, IES will facilitate the presentations over three days in the week culminating in the International Day of Light (16 May). Last year’s Light for Life series reached nearly 4,000 attendees from 46 countries, and featured 17 sessions with 15 organisations and 20 presenters.
Partner organisations participating from around the world will each curate their own webinar in the series, shaping the discussion of “Light for Life” with their unique global perspectives. This year, at least three new countries are being added to the programme, with Japan, Brazil and Russia joining Australia, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and the USA. Among the highlights of this year’s series will be live Q&A sessions with individuals from around the globe.
The Light for Life webinar series is free for all. More information can be found on the IES website.
Aldabra: Storm Collection
In a world where climate changes are constant, the Aldabra Storm collection was born and designed for perfect lighting even in extreme conditions.
The perfect union of steel or aluminium and professional electronics fused with nanopolymer resins, has allowed Aldabra to create products completely protected from environmental hazards and suitable to withstand the most extreme climatic changes.
Lucent Lighting: Vista
The Vista and Vista Mini are a range of sleek, matte black, IP65 exterior grade, fully adjustable spotlights in both 50mm and 30mm diameter. These are available in both spike and surface mounted options. The 50mm with four available beams for highlighting landscape features or pathway lighting and the 30mm diameter version is available in two beam options ideally suited to smaller niche planter, foliage and pathway situations.
Acropolis of Athens and Monuments awarded 2020 [d]arc awards ‘Best of the Best’
(Global) – 2020 [d]arc awards prove massive success with 1400 attendees registered to watch the online winners’ ceremony.
On the evening of Thursday 29 April 2021, the design community once again came out in force to support the only peer-to-peer lighting design awards in the world and find out which studios had won in this year’s prestigious [d]arc awards.
Sponsored by Applelec; Kingfisher Lighting; LEDFlex, Lumascape; Seoul Semiconductor; TLS; and Tryka, a massive 14,000 votes were received in total while 297 project entries and 108 product entries were submitted. The 2020 entries came from all over the world, with 40 countries represented this year.
Awarded the coveted [d]arc awards ‘Best of the Best’ for 2020, was Acropolis of Athens and Monuments by Eleftheria Deko & Associates Lighting Design, which won the Structures – High Budget category. This award is given to the project that received the most amount of votes out of all the project category winners.
The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most important monuments of world culture. A living symbol that has stood the test of time, and one of the most recognisable landmarks in the world.
Eleftheria Deko and Associates observed the characteristics of this unique place, its history, the forms and materials, the visibility from different places of the city and the significance of this important landmark. The team's philosophy was applied to the lighting of the Sacred Rock, the fortification walls, and the 17 monuments; including the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion, the Ancient Theatre of Dionysus, the Stoa of Eumenes, the Shrine of Dionysus, and Aphrodite’s Cave - some of them illuminated for the first time.
The design approach was to distinguish for the first time the sacred rock from the walls and the monuments through lighting, by the use of different colour temperature and intensity differentiations. Moreover, the team wanted to accentuate the three-dimensionality of the sculptures and columns to highlight all the details of the monuments and create depth of field to make the different volumes distinct from far away. Each bears the symbolism of its time and purpose and that inspired the designers to create those lighting layers.
Lighting suppliers specified for this stunning project included: Erco, Linea Light Group, and Griven.
Acropolis Lights – the Audiovisual Launch Event by Eleftheria Deko & Associates Lighting Design also won this year’s [d]arc awards Event category, making it a triple win for Eleftheria Deko & Associates.
Speaking with [d]arc media Managing Director Paul James, during the online awards ceremony, Lighting Designer Eleftheria Deko said of the win: “Oh wow! Thank you so much, I have to thank the voters and dedicate this award to my country and the Ancient Greeks. I need to thank my team, they are such great people and of course thank you to the Greek Ministry of Culture that trusted us and made it all possible. This is very moving, thank you!”
While the global pandemic saw the 2020 [d]arc awards move to an online stage for the first time, this didn’t stop the team making it a showstopper event. In the run up to the awards ceremony, registered attendees were given the added bonus of engaging once more with four days’ worth of online content from the 2020 [d]arc room: live stream on the Swapcard platform that took place in September.
[d]arc media Managing Director, Paul James couldn’t be happier with how this year’s event has gone, saying: “While it was very sad that we couldn’t have a [d]arc awards party, we were blown away by the response to the online awards. It was amazing to see so many people tuning in from the international design community and to see people connecting on the platform from all over the world. Fingers crossed we can all get together to celebrate the winners and see the partner installations at the [d]arc night party in September.”
For the first time in its five-year history, the 2020 [d]arc awards ceremony had to move away from [d]arc night, which has become the ‘must-attend’ party for the design community. A night full of entertainment, complementary food and drink, and light-art installations, as well as the awards presentation itself, [d]arc media has big plans for its return later in the year.
Covid restrictions permitting, [d]arc night will take place on 23 September 2021 at Magazine in London, as part of the Design London event – an opportunity to celebrate the amazing achievements of the lighting design community, complete with light installations and more. The installations will be displayed from 22-25 September 2021.
[d]arc awards 2020 winners
[d]arc awards ‘Best of the Best’: Acropolis of Athens and Monuments, Greece by Eleftheria Deko & Associates Lighting Design
Places – High Budget: Norwich Cathedral, UK by Speirs Major
Places – Low Budget: The Copenhagen Panorama, Denmark by fortheloveoflight
Spaces – High: Magical Shores at Siloso, Singapore by Lighting Planners Associates
Spaces – Low: Santa Marina Hotel Welcoming Tunnel, Greece by ASlight
Structures – High: Acropolis of Athens and Monuments, Greece by Eleftheria Deko & Associates Lighting Design
Structures – Low: The Iron Bridge, UK by LPA Lighting
Art – High: Grow, Netherlands by Studio Roosegaarde
Art – Low: Search of the Glow, Taiwan by Ling-Li, Serendipity Studio
Art – Bespoke: Carousel of Light, Italy by Preciosa Lighting
Event: Acropolis Lights - Audiovisual Launch Event by Eleftheria Deko & Associates Lighting Design
Kit – Architectural Interior: Nano Tini by DGA
Kit – Architectural Exterior: minimumMAXIMUM by LAM32 Experience designed by Francesco Lannone and Serena Tellini
Kit – Decorative: Coordinates by Flos designed by Michael Anastassiades
Kit – Technology: DALI Gateway by Casambi
Erco Jilly
High visual comfort meets maximum flexibility: Jilly linear downlights for track adapt to any furniture arrangement thanks to simple repositioning in the track.
Ideal for loft offices and co-working spaces with high ceilings of up to 5-metres: Jilly linear provides standard-compliant light for workstations and numerous options for individual control of the light.
The Erco individual service offers extensive options for individualising Jilly for track, including additional light colours and housing colours.
Stoane Lighting ZTA.70
Stoane Lighting’s ZTA, a product range that offers true circular manufacture, is expanding.
ZTA.70 is bigger, whilst maintaining the same clean and simple aesthetic, can offer tight beams and higher output (more than 3000lm initial in ≥90 CRI), and has the same flexible choice of light sources, optics, mounting methods, finishes and accessories.
Like all in the range, it carries circular economy principles in product design to easily allow upgrade in future, be that for light source, control or mounting methodology.
Kingfisher Artelys
Combining elegant Italian design with powerful reflector technology, the Artelys series is the perfect solution for street, architectural and public realm lighting. Available in two body sizes as well as in a decorative lantern, and with an array of options such as optics and output, low colour temperatures, mounting styles and control compatibility throughout; this truly is a versatile luminaire.
eldoLED 48V DC 32W
eldoLED’s 48V DC 32W LED Track Driver maximises quality of light amidst track lighting miniaturisation and form factor constraints. It’s the only programmable track driver on the market that meets flicker performance industry requirements while achieving high-quality deep-dimming (0.1%) and tunable white applications. Make any hospitality lighting dreams a reality with DALI-2 DT8(Tc) lighting controls and eldoLED’s intuitive LightShape colour temperature and intensity control technology.
IBL Darklight
The new architectural Darklight downlights from IBL are available in sizes ranging from 60mm-100mm in diameter and a power consumption from 4.5W to 20W. The low glare specular reflectors come in polished chrome, polished black, matte black and polished gold (on request). Offering precise optics using the IBL Light Gathering Lens (LGL) technology, they can be dimmed using any dimming protocol. Two trimless options, with standard or plaster-in trimless kits are also available, as is a large selection of CTT, including dim-to-warm.
Filix Arpool
The Arpool Iris family of IP68 underwater adjustable luminaries brings a revolution in pool and water feature lighting design. With a 360° rotation and 20° tilt, the penetration of light through water goes beyond the optical capabilities. Multi-zoning, covering dark sports and creating depth illusions are easily achieved with vertical and horizontal installation. With a single IP68 connection feed, easy maintenance and replacement of engines is possible without removal from water.
LightGraphix Compact Downlights
LightGraphix has launched four new downlights - LD780, LD782, LD790, and LD792 - with single colour, 2-tone, fixed and adjustable options, rated IP65 for interior, exterior and marine applications. Bezel diameters start at 46mm, achieving an excellent size to output ratio delivering over 400lm. Colour temperatures range between 2200K-5000K and beam angles include several medium and a super tight 10° narrow. A single deep recessed optic ensures ultra-low glare, superior beam shape and no multiple shadows.
