LPA: Magical Shores at Siloso, Singapore
Magical Shores at Siloso is a grand scale, multi-sensory experience that transforms Singapore's Siloso Beach and its islets on the island resort Sentosa into an interactive light installation.
Created by Lighting Planners Associates (LPA), the permanent installation along the 400-metre sandy beach was set as a part of the island revitalisation programme. Inspired by the rich biodiversity of the island, visitors can enjoy the interactive lighting and projections that respond to the weather and movement of the people.
Read more about LPA in a special 30th anniversary feature in arc 119 here.
Video courtesy of LPA.
Fisher Marantz Stone: Shanghai Bund
Starting in April 2018, Fisher Marantz Stone spearheaded a mammoth re-lighting project in Shanghai's Bund district that saw 25 buildings along the Huangpu River illuminated in a warm white light. Paying homage to the former high pressure sodium lighting system, FMS, alongside Uno Lai Lighting Design and six other local lighting specialists, utilised a CCT ranging from 1800K to 3000K in a marked contrast to the dynamic light shows of the Pudong across the river. This warm white light also helped to showcase the classical architecture of the Bund, celebrating its history and creating a waterfront for the people.
Read more about this project in arc 119 here.
Video courtesy of FMS.
Light Collective: The Perfect Light Experience
Following on from their Perfect Light Project, Light Collective has launched the second film in the series; a documentary that follows five lighting designers on a trip to Japan in a quest to find the perfect light experience. The journey was made in 2018 and shown at private viewings in late 2018 and early 2019.
Light Symposium Wismar 2020/21 moves online
(Germany) - The three-day event to take place on 10-12 March 2021.
The upcoming Light Symposium Wismar 2020/21 (LSW 2020/21), scheduled to take place on 10-12 March, has been moved online in a new, remote format via Microsoft Teams.
The symposium, rescheduled from 2020, is a three-day event that will aim to bring together the latest insights into the future of daylight and artificial lighting in healthy, built environments with respect to research, theory, technologies, design and applications.
An occasion for researchers, students and practitioners who wish to keep up-to-date with recent findings, the forum will look to deliver state-of-the-art discoveries and breakthroughs that explore how daylight and artificial light affect the mental and physical health of humans in natural and built environments.
The interdisciplinary structure of LSW 2020/21 promotes future oriented discussions on the importance of light and the lighting design profession.
The event will include 14 renowned speakers from fields such as architecture, lighting design, engineering and biology, as well as environmental and medical science. Experts from Germany, USA, Canada, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Sweden and the UK will present their talks in four different thematic tracks: Daylight Design Practice, Daylight Research and Related Aspects, Artificial Lighting Design Practice, Artificial Lighting Research and Related Aspects.
Confirmed keynote speakers for the event include neuroscientist Dr. George C. Brainard from Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University, and Speirs Major principal, Mark Major.
The current programme is as follows:
Wednesday 10 March 2021
Light4Health Public Workshop at Light Symposium Wismar 2020/21
| 14:15 | An Introduction and Welcome (Prof. Michael F. Rohde & Asst. Prof. Dr. Karolina Zielinska-Dabkowska) |
| 14:45 | Panel Discussion with invited members of Light4Health team |
| 16:00 | End (Sponsors meet LSW participants) |
Thursday 11 March 2021
| 11:00 | Opening Welcome - Prof. Michael F. Rohde, Prof. Achim Hack, Dean of HSW, Faculty of Architecture |
Daylight Design Practice
| 11:15 | Assoc. Prof. Marie-Claude Dubois (Keynote Speaker), Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lundt University |
| 12:15 | Giovanni Traverso, Traverso-Vighy Architetti |
| 12:45 | Prof. Dr. Marilyne Andersen, Laboratory of Integrated Performance in Design, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Daylight Research & Related Aspects
| 14:15 | Dr. George C. Brainard (Keynote Speaker), Philadelphia University & Thomas Jefferson University |
| 15:15 | Prof. Dr. John Mardaljevic, School of Architecture, Building & Civil Engineering, Loughborough University |
| 15:45 | Coffee Break (Sponsors meet LSW participants) |
| 16:15 | Dr. Ahmet Çakir, Ergonomic Institute |
| 16:45 | Dr. Jan de Boer, Fraunhofer-Institut für Bauphysik |
| 17:15 | Panel Discussion |
| 18:00 | End (Sponsors meet LSW participants |
Friday 12 March 2021
| 11:00 | Opening Welcome - Prof. Michael Rohde, Asst. Prof. Dr. Karolina Zielinska-Dabkowska |
Artificial Lighting Design Practice
| 11:15 | Mark Major (Keynote Speaker), Speirs Major |
| 12:15 | Anne Bureau, Wonderfulight |
| 12:45 | Prof. Kevin Hauser, Oregon State University |
Artificial Lighting Research & Related Aspects
| 14:15 | Prof. Dr. Eva Schernhammer, MD (Keynote Speaker), Medical University of Vienna, Centre for Public Health |
| 15:15 | Catherine Pérez Vega, The Free University of Berlin & Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries |
| 15:45 | Coffee Break (Sponsors meet LSW participants) |
| 16:15 | Dr. John Barentine, International Dark Sky Association |
| 16:45 | Panel Discussion |
| 17:30 | Farewell Speech and Announcements |
More information on participation fees and registration will be available soon on the Light Symposium Wismar website.
[d]arc media announces launch of [d]arc sessions
New networking event for specifiers and suppliers to take place in Mykonos in October.
[d]arc media, the market-leading publisher and event organiser for the international lighting design industry, has announced the launch of [d]arc sessions, a series of exclusive and intimate gatherings for lighting specifiers and suppliers.
The first [d]arc sessions will take place at the Royal Mykonian resort in Mykonos on 5-8 October 2021 with more planned in different resort locations for the future.
[d]arc sessions has been designed with COVID and a ‘new normal’ in mind. It comprises four key elements: Speed+Sync meetings, Symposia speaker sessions, Sustenance breakouts and Social celebrations. Guests attend [d]arc sessions to specify and source projects; to escape, regenerate and rebuild, always in beautiful and abundant settings.
To create a sense of community and shared experience, guest numbers are strictly limited. Every specifier attending [d]arc sessions will be carefully selected, vetted and authenticated to ensure suppliers are meeting genuine decision-makers with purchasing power, actively working on live lighting projects. The latest event management / app technology enables qualified meetings and quantifiable ROI.
Winners of the six Project categories in this year’s [d]arc awards (PLACES - Low / High Budget); SPACES - Low / High Budget); and STRUCTURES - Low / High Budget) will also receive an all-expenses paid trip to [d]arc sessions to ensure the latest exemplars of award-winning projects are in attendance. The deadline to enter these categories for this year’s awards is 31st January.
“I am very excited about this new event for the lighting specification industry,” says Paul James, Managing Director of [d]arc media. “I believe that a resort is the perfect location for a new kind of intimate face-to-face event during these challenging times. Participants will be able to relax as well as do business in a safe and creative environment.”
[d]arc sessions also enjoys collaboration with leading industry brands. It is hosted in association with arc and darc magazines and the [d]arc awards, and includes speaker-driven content curated and presented by the [d]arc media editorial team. The event is organised and delivered by Connect X, the team behind hotel design event HIX.
Suppliers who are interested in participating in the event should contact the [d]arc media team via the [d]arc sessions website.
www.darcsessions.com
Martin Valentine to join Filix Lighting
(Croatia) – Valentine joins Filix with 35 years’ experience in the lighting industry.
From 1 February 2021, Martin Valentine will join Filix Lighting as Global Lighting Solutions Specialist and Managing Director of the brand’s new UK office.
The appointment comes as part of a growth strategy from Filix aimed at better supporting the global lighting community.
Valentine arrives at Filix with 35 years of experience in the lighting industry, with an in-depth knowledge of lighting design, business and product development gathered at organisations such as AECOM, Abu Dhabi Municipality and most recently Ligman.
Aside from his core roles, supporting lighting designers and engineers internationally, Valentine will, through his membership and involvement in organisations such as SLL, IALD and IES, interface with the lighting community and continue to work on education and industry-wide research.
It is hoped by Filix that Valentine’s experience and knowledge across multiple areas of the industry will bring the brand a much-needed boost to continue its growth and contribution to the lighting industry.
Nordeon Group undergoes rebrand
(Luxembourg) – Rebrand to Experience Brands comes after a year of transformation.
Coinciding with the new year, the Nordeon Group has announced that is has officially rebranded to Experience Brands.
The rebrand comes after several significant changes within the fast-growing conglomerate to better reflect the strategy and progressive mindset of its individual operating companies, which includes Hess, Griven, Lamp Lighting, Wila and Nordeon Lighting Solutions.
The move follows the completion of numerous initiatives in 2020 to transform the group to a more dynamic, customer-centric organisation.
Chris Stockton, CEO of Experience Brands, said: “We strive to improve our customer experiences utilising lighting, so we decided on a name that puts our fundamental objective at the forefront. The name change will not take away from the importance of each individual brand within the group, all of which have a rich, historic tradition of innovation and great products. We will continue to expand the product portfolio within each brand, particularly around their core competency with a focus on design and customisation.
“Although our business is lighting today, with the speed at which technology is advancing, it is crucial that we expand our foundation to support all of the areas that are becoming adjacencies to lighting such as controls, analytics, security, video and communications.
“Experience Brands is committed to helping out customers focus on the needs of the present in a way that allows those in the future to have the ability to meet their needs, a sustainable approach.”
www.experiencebrandsglobal.com
Former President of SLL, Liz Peck, dies aged 46
(UK) – Peck served as SLL President in 2015, during the UNESCO International Year of Light.
It is with great sadness that the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) has confirmed the death of Liz Peck, Past President, former Secretary and a Fellow of the Society.
A popular and highly regarded figure in the lighting industry, Peck was President of the SLL between 2015 and 2016, and was one of the key figures behind the internationally renowned Night of Heritage Light.
After encouragement from industry peers, Peck joined the lighting industry in 1999 in a customer service role at Concord Lighting. Working alongside Mike Simpson, she moved from Concord to Philips, becoming a senior lighting designer and with Simpson’s encouragement, joined the SLL in 2003. During this time, she was undertaking the Bartlett MSc in Light and Lighting; she was awarded the Worshipful Company of Lightmongers Student of the Year in 2003, and graduated the following year.
In 2007, Peck established her own independent lighting consultancy, LPA Lighting, and worked on a number of high-profile, award-winning projects, such as Dover Castle, and more recently the Iron Bridge in Telford – a project that she worked on with current SLL President, Bob Bohannon.
In 2008, Peck was awarded the SLL Lighting Diploma, and prior to being elected to the SLL Executive Committee, was the Society’s Secretary. Peck became SLL President in 2015, coinciding with the UNESCO International Year of Light – the third woman to take on the role and to represent the Society, its members and the lighting industry.
In her time as President, Peck was one of the instigators and project leads of the first SLL Night of Heritage Light. Embracing and celebrating the UNESCO International Year of Light, SLL members lit nine UNESCO World Heritage sites across the UK on 1 October 2015. Alongside Simon Fisher, Dan Lister and Rhiannon West, Peck led this national event, which gained international acclaim, going on to win the Event award at the 2016 [d]arc awards.
Rounding off the UNESCO International Year of Light, Peck travelled with SLL Coordinator Juliet Rennie to Mexico for the closing ceremony, where she spoke about the Night of Heritage Light as part of an international panel of lighting designers and advocates.
Following a move from Brighton to Leeds, Peck started the Northern Lights initiative, which gave an opportunity for “Light Minded” people in the north of England to socialise and discuss the topics of the day – part of Peck’s ongoing passion, support and commitment to the lighting community and those working within it.
On hearing the news of her passing, SLL President Bob Bohannon said: “I will not be alone in hearing the news of Liz’s passing with shock and immense sadness, she was a dear friend and invaluable colleague. She will be widely missed, I was constantly amazed by just how many people knew her and her ability to make friends of the teams around us.
“But while mourning I want to celebrate the life lived for that is the Liz we all knew. Her humanity shone through, for example in the last few months she was volunteering as a deliverer for a Leeds food bank; it was hard work but she made people’s lives better. She was immensely proud to have beaten all the longevity odds after major heart surgery as a teenager.
“Her passion for the work of the Society of Light and Lighting was a driving force in her life and her work on projects such as Dover Castle and the Iron Bridge at Telford were widely recognised as being at the leading edge of our profession.
“We’ll miss you Liz.”
Liz Peck 1974 – 2021
www.cibse.org/society-of-light-and-lighting
Monica Luz Lobo named President-Elect of IALD
(USA) – Lobo will take over from current President Douglas Leonard in 2022.
Following the 2021 IALD Elections, the association’s Nominations and Elections Committee has announced that Monica Luz Lobo, founder and Creative Director of LD Studio, is President-Elect of the IALD.
Lobo, who has most recently served on the IALD Board of Directors as a Director-at-Large, will take over from current President Douglas Leonard in 2022. She began her tenure as President-Elect on 1 January.
Committed to the development and dissemination of the profession of architectural lighting design, Lobo is one of the founders of the Brazilian Association of Architectural Lighting Designers (AsBAI), is one of the prime movers behind the 2016 edition of the Ibero-American Lighting Design gathering (EILD), is a professional member of the IALD and member of the IES.
The IALD also announced that Christopher Knowlton, co-founder of 18 Degrees as the new Treasurer. Knowlton has for the past two years served as a Director-at-Large on the IALD Board of Directors, and has been long been an integral member of both the IALD and the lighting design community as a whole.
Elsewhere, it was revealed that Andrea Hartranft, Principal of Hartranft Lighting Design, Susanna Antico, founder and Principal of Studio Antico Lighting Design and Jered Widmer, Principal at The Lighting Practice, will serve as Directors-at-Large, while Teal Brogden, President and Senior Principal at HLB Lighting Design, and Ron Kurtz or Randy Burkett Lighting Design will sit as Committee Members for the IALD Membership Committee.
Results of second Light4health International Summer School announced
(Worldwide) – The project saw collaboration across six leading universities and architectural schools around the world.
The second International Summer School of worldwide project Light4health (L4H), held within the framework of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership grant programme, has ended.
The Summer School was organised and attended by representatives of leading international universities and European architectural schools in the field of lighting design, including Aalborg University (Denmark), Hochschule Wismar (Germany), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Thomas Jefferson University (USA), Creative Lighting Department ITMO University (Russia), and the University of Wolverhampton (UK).
Together with Prof. Dr. George Brainard and his lab from Thomas Jefferson University, the team sought to develop a novel educational course to teach health research methods and findings to lighting designers at the graduate level.
In connection with the coronavirus pandemic, classes were held in a remote format, hosted by Hochschule Wismar. The main subject of the online school for 2020 was “Lighting for Working and Educational Environments”.
The work was conducted in interdisciplinary international groups (39 participants in total), which included students from each partner university. Within its framework, participants comprehensively evaluated the lighting of four spaces on their respective campuses. This involved the analysis of natural and artificial light, and study of the effect of lighting on the daily rhythms of users. In the course of practical work, students identified and recorded in detail, all the characteristics of these rooms, so that the rest of the team who worked remotely, could accurately understand these spaces.
The classes lasted five weeks, and were divided into five modules. Each week was devoted to a specific topic that included a theoretical part, based on pre-recorded lectures, and practical tasks, concluding with a final presentation.
In module 1, the students were expected to measure/analyse visual qualities of daylight and artificial lighting using known lighting metrics. In the second module, they used the CIE toolbox to analyse SPD measurements and assessed the physiological impact of artificial lighting. In module 3, they evaluated lighting in given spaces via subjective impressions, and used ALFA software simulation and tools from previous modules. Finally, in the fourth module, students developed and tested a new lighting concept for improving users’ health, wellbeing and performance.
Four associated partners supported the L4H project with tools and expertise; Seoul Semiconductor, QLAB Laboratory of Light, Solemma and GL Optic. Seoul Semiconductor provided SunLike LED tunable task lamps for the lighting measurements on-site, and QLAB Laboratory of Light performed professional spectral and flicker measurements for these lights, to be used in DIALux calculations. Solemma provided a free yearlong ALFA license for all students and teachers, and GL Optic provided spectroradiometers and software, to be used throughout the project.
Despite the fact that the International Summer School was moved online, tutors made the remote classes in groups as comfortable as possible for participants. Students were able to discuss current issues in the field of lighting design with experts from different universities around the world without leaving their own homes. They were also able to participate in L4H on-the-job training at their universities. The project also allowed students to improve their communication skills. For this purpose, team members from different countries formed common chats for communication.
The revised format posed a number of new challenges for the summer school; for example, working remotely without meeting in person before, or choosing an appropriate time for discussion, due to the difference in time zones. In spite of these challenges, the final results produced by the students were assessed as extraordinary, and the overall experience has been considered a great success.
The third and final summer school within the framework of L4H will be held in Spring 2021, hosted by Aalborg University in Denmark. Held in an online format, the focus will me on “Lighting for Healthcare Environments” – an especially relevant topic in the context of the pandemic.
For more information on the Light4Health project, contact Asst. Prof. Dr. Karolina Zielinska-Dabkowska, the L4H project's principal investigator, at k.zielinska-dabkowska@pg.edu.pl.
Paul Traynor named Head of Light Bureau
(UK) - Traynor takes over from Zlatan Idnert as Head of Light Bureau.
Paul Traynor has, as of 1 January 2021, taken over as the new Head of Light Bureau, a part of AFRY, the company has announced.
Traynor is the founder of UK-based Light Bureau, which joined AFRY (then ÅF Lighting) in 2017, growing the team to about 100 designers. The whole lighting design offer of AFRY later assumed the brand Light Bureau.
"This is more than I imagined would happen three years ago when AFRY acquired Light Bureau, but the more I have thought about it, the more I value the opportunity of working with a great business to develop the brand to which I am forever committed," said Paul Traynor.
"Beginning with binding the cultures in our different territories, I want to see us all motivated by doing great projects and growing together."
Malin Frenning, Head of Division Infrastructure at AFRY, added: "I'm so pleased that Paul will lead Light Bureau as the award-winning lighting design offer now aims to grow even further internationally. Paul is an internationally recognised lighting designer with a proven track record as a leader. Having worked extensively internationally and as a former President of the Professional Lighting Designer's Association, Paul's profile is ideal to help realise Light Bureau's ambition."
Zlatan Idnert, who has been Head of Light Bureau this past year, will continue his commitment as Head of Efterklang, part of AFRY, and focus on its continued growth in existing as well as international markets."
Zumtobel Vivo II
A versatile platform for all architectural requirements, Zumtobel’s new Vivo II has a host of accessories to meet the demands of today’s spotlight world. Suitable for ceiling heights of up to 10-metres, this powerful, ultra-flexible luminaire enables brand, product and space presentation tailored to the target group and application. Vivo II has three different optical systems - highly efficient reflectors for powerful accent lighting with minimal glare, high-precision lenses for exact light distribution without any light scatter and a manual zoom lens for flexibility.
