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
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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."
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