arc editor to judge World Masters of Projection Mapping
(Netherlands) - arc editor Paul James part of judging panel for first World Masters of Projection Mapping competition as perfect union of creativity and technology illuminates Amsterdam.
International video artists are involved in a three-week display of 3D projections onto the EYE Filmmuseum façade as part of Amsterdam Light Festival. The shape of the multi-faceted museum, with no straight surfaces and the close proximity of water from the IJ, created a unique set of technical and productional challenges for the artists. To make projection possible, eleven beamers have been positioned all around the building. The World Masters of Projection Mapping is a joint venture initiative from Amsterdam Light Festival, event organiser Integrated Systems Events (ISE) and RAI Amsterdam. Until 9th February the artworks of the participating artists will be showcased daily from 7-8:30am and 6-11pm on the EYE Filmmuseum.
The Finalists
• Geert Mul - For over 25 years Mul has been exploring the possibilities of poetry in the language of new (data-based) media. Mul’s practice engages the broader public through audio visual performances and commissioned artworks in public spaces. His installations have been showcased in numerous museums for modern art including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. (https://geertmul.nl)
• Telcosystems (Gideon Kiers, David Kiers, and Lucas van der Velden) - Gideon, David and Lucas research the relationship between the behaviour of programmed numerical logic and the human perception of this behaviour. This leads to the creation of immersive audio visual installations which are shown through various media and live performances. Their work has been featured in museums and festivals such as Ars Electronica, International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Holland Festival. (http://telecosystems.net)
• Alida Dors and Manuel Rodriques - Alida Dors is the artistic director of dance company BackBone. BackBone uses dance to address societal issues and to bring different groups together. Manuel Rodrigues is a graphic designer and film artist. He treats and manipulates elements from the visual world as dances, in which image and sound become inextricably linked. (www.backboneconnects.nl and http://deepred.tv)
• Florian and Michael Quistrebert - This duo creates ‘optical canvasses’ and videos showing angular patterns in which symmetry and reflections are recurring themes. Using a variety of materials and techniques they seek to reinvent modernism, futurism, and optical art. (http://quistrebert.com)
• Eder Santos - Santos - a pioneer of multimedia art in Brazil - is recognized worldwide for developing hybrid projects that mix visual arts, cinema, theater, video, and new media. His works belong to the permanent collections of the MoMA in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, two of the largest contemporary art museums in the world. (https://www.edersantos.com.br)
The Jury
The selection of the finalists was carried out through close collaboration between the EYE Filmmuseum and Amsterdam Light Festival. The international jury who will judge the finalists on 8 February comprises: Lennart Booij, Artistic Director of Amsterdam Light Festival (Jury Chair), Jaap Guldemond, Director of Exhibitions EYE Filmmuseum, Marente Bloemheuvel, Associate Curator of EYE Filmmuseum, Jozef Hey, Founder and Owner of BeamSystems, Giny Vos, artist, Paul James, Editor in Chief of arc magazine, and Hartmut Kulessa, Panasonic Europe. Central to the criteria for the jury will be how the finalists combine their creativity and storytelling with the utilisation of technology to deliver their vision.
Lennart Booij, Artistic Director of Amsterdam Light Festival, commented: “The quality of the entries is high and the jury is enthusiastic about the final selection of national and international artists. These conceptual and cinematographic works enable us to deepen the scope and the artistic quality of projection mapping.”
Mike Blackman, ISE’s Managing Director, commented: “This project has now come to life in spectacular fashion. The results can be seen each day in Amsterdam. The competition showcases the perfect marriage of technology and creativity. It involves leading artists, manufacturers and solution providers - everything that Integrated Systems Events represents.”
Paul Riemens, CEO RAI Amsterdam, commented: “Connecting people, ideas, and visions at RAI Amsterdam creates quality and added value for ISE, her exhibitors and visitors. By supporting communities and our partners around events we generate a platform, also in the city. We look forward to bring this competition to the people of Amsterdam.”
Technical partners are: Panasonic (projectors), Disguise (media servers), Alcons Audio (audio), and Lightware (transmission). Creative partners are BeamSystems (installation and integration) and EYE Filmmuseum.
The video displays are accompanied by audio through radio frequency FM88.4 and on 8th and 9th February through audio sets on the quaysides near EYE.
www.amsterdamlightfestival.com/projectionmapping
Neri Oxman to be Lightfair International keynote
(USA) - Neri Oxman of Sony Corporation and MIT Media Lab will share her perspective in a fascinating keynote presentation at Lightfair International 2018. She is an award-winning designer whose work combines art and science. Her work reveals a future with the intersection of technology and nature. Lightfair takes place in Chicago at McCormick Place May 6 – 10, 2018 (Pre-Conference Lightfair Institute: May 6 – 7; Trade Show & Conference: May 8 – 10) and registration opens on February 6.
Architect, designer and inventor Oxman is the Sony Corporation Career Development Professor. She is also the Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. At MIT, she founded and currently directs the Mediated Matter design research group. During her Monday, May 7 keynote luncheon address ‘Innovation in Design’, attendees will discover the broad spectrum of Oxman's forward-thinking work. This keynote is sponsored by Eaton.
The research her team conducts combines computational design, digital fabrication, materials science and synthetic biology. They use the knowledge in applications from micro scale to building scale. Oxman states that “her goal is to enhance the relationship between the built and the natural environments by employing design principles inspired or engineered by Nature and implementing them in the invention of novel digital design technologies.”
Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group developed GLASS II, a glass 3D printing platform, and the show opened in an exhibition for Lexus YET at Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy, April 2017.
She received a PhD in design computation as a Presidential Fellow at MIT where she coined the term Material Ecology to describe her research area. Before attending MIT, she earned a diploma from the Architectural Association (RIBA 2 Hons) after she attended the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Hons) and the Department of Medical Sciences at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Oxman’s term Material Ecology “considers form generation, manufacturing, the environment and the material itself as inseparable dimensions of design. In this approach, products and buildings are biologically informed and digitally engineered by, with and for, Nature”.
She was on ICON’s list of the top 20 most influential architects to shape our future and the Fast Company list of the 100 most creative people. SEED magazine called her a “Revolutionary Mind” and she was a part of Esquire’s Best and Brightest. In 2012, the Centre Georges Pompidou Museum (Paris, France) acquired her works for its permanent collection. Additional permanent collections include SFMOMA, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (NYC), the Smithsonian Institute (Washington, DC), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), Museum of Science (Boston, MA) and FRAC Collection (Orleans, France).
Oxman’s work is a part of prestigious private collections, and she has received many awards including the 40 Under 40 Building Design + Construction Award, Graham Foundation Carter Manny Award, International Earth Award for Future-Crucial Design and METROPOLIS Next Generation Award. In 2014, Oxman won the Vilcek Prize in Design, Carnegie’s Pride of America Award and Boston Society of Architects Women in Design Award. Her work has been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Fast Company and The Boston Globe.”
Delta Light expands global network with new showroom in London
(UK) - After opening a series of exclusive showrooms in New York, Moscow, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, Bogota, Saint Petersburg, Bangkok, Miami and other design capitals, Delta Light presents a brand new showroom in the heart of London.
Set in a repurposed railway arch, the impressive new Delta Light showroom houses offices, meeting rooms, a light lab and a multifunctional presentation and events area. And of course, the latest Delta Light products from The Lighting Bible 12 catalogue are on glorious display in the showroom.
“The UK is one of our key markets worldwide, while London is known for its trendsetting community of architects and designers who work on global projects,” explains Jan Ameloot, Managing Director of Delta Light. “With the new showroom, our goal was to showcase our products and inspire and share our expertise with the local market, as well as to offer a meeting place to discuss projects.”
The showroom is in an ideal location: just a short walk from the Tate Modern and a stone’s throw from Southwark, Waterloo and London Bridge stations, the showroom is nestled in the heart of a thriving design community near trendy restaurants and bars. Decorated in a signature monotone colour palette, the new space echoes the timeless and refined style of the Delta Light collections.
“My father launched Delta Light back in 1989. He started designing and producing his first lighting in a small workshop in Roeselare in Belgium,” recalls Jan. “Today, we have an international network with teams and offices in over 120 countries worldwide. We work on both small and large-scale projects, from residential to retail and from offices to public buildings. The market is constantly evolving and it’s important for us to have a strong presence in London, a leading global design capital.”
After the launch of the latest showroom in London, Delta Light will open new showrooms in Dubai & Los Angeles.
Using the momentum of the showroom inauguration, Delta Light launched its new XY180 and Polesano collections after an exciting collaboration with the iconic OMA architects and the award-winning lighting designer Dean Skira. Both collections were first revealed in a prototype phase during Salone del Mobile in Milan in March, and are now being launched in detail.
For the occasion, Delta Light designed and created a striking pop-up installation in the Great Suffolk Street car park down the street from the showroom. The iconic space has been used as a backdrop for James Bond movies and trendy fashion shows. The robust character of the space was combined with a cubist architecture concept made of cardboard boxes. The idea was to use an ordinary object and transform it into a surprising construction element when used in serial repetition.
Philips launch new lighting impact app
(Netherlands) - Philips Lighting and SAP launch app that will enable tourist boards and city authorities to measure the social and economic impact of illuminating city landmarks.
Philips Lighting has launched a new social impact analytics app. The app is designed to help cities and owners of sites to collect accurate feedback on the social and media impact of public lighting projects. Information from the app will help authorities to facilitate better engagement with citizens, improve strategies to boost tourism and enhance value for the local economy.
The launch of the new app, announced at Smart City Expo in Barcelona, is the result of a collaboration between Philips Lighting and enterprise software specialist SAP SE. The app merges image analytics developed by Philips Lighting, which identifies architectural lighting photos of landmark installations on social platforms such as Instagram, with SAP’s Cloud Platform which collates data on what is being posted on social media and news sites, about a given piece of architecture. The result is an invaluable set of metrics formed by public opinion, measuring sentiment about architectural lighting for a specific building or monument.
The app illustrates how technology can help to quantify the return on investment for architectural lighting. For example, data from the app will help city authorities to identify the most popular lighting displays and refine lighting strategies to best meet the needs of their local community. This is becoming increasingly important as individuals interact with their environment in new and innovative ways; for example, the lighting of a bridge might be sponsored by a charity which allows donors to vote for their preferred lighting design. Also, in a world where cities strive to find new and innovative ways to be smarter, the social impact analytics app may be used to create new business opportunities for the local economy.
A study conducted by Philips Lighting about the impact of public lighting, revealed that landmarks that have been dynamically lit serve much more than a functional purpose. Cities and public and private organizations are using the installations to beautify or brand cities to boost tourism, promote health and wellbeing, and revitalize areas in decline by turning buildings, bridges and monuments into art.
“When used in a dynamic creative way, light can turn even the plainest structure into a work of art. The new app will contextualize social media posts proving the value of dynamically lit architecture, not just from a social and cultural perspective, but also their potential impact on the local economy. The analysis engine analyses all the data that comes in. It can visualize it, report it and provide alerts to cities. Furthermore, it will identify only the posts that you're interested in, for example: ignoring a traffic jam on a bridge, but capturing sentiment about the lighting,” said Jacques Letzelter, Global Business Leader Public Segment at Philips Lighting.
Media and social media especially reflect the impact lighting installations have on civic pride and the local community. One example of this is The Bay Lights, a light sculpture on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, which has shown to have enormous positive impact on the local community.
New Senior Vice President Global Sales & Marketing at Tridonic
(Austria) - Jörg Kessler has taken up the position of Senior Vice President (SVP) Global Sales & Marketing from 1st November. He takes over from David Barnby, who will be taking retirement at the end of the year.
In his new position Kessler will be assuming responsibility for the development and implementation of the global sales strategy. Kessler will be driving forward the shift from transaction-based business – with a strong focus on the sales of solution concepts including software and supporting services. As SVP Global Sales & Marketing he will report directly to Tridonic CEO Guido van Tartwijk.
“We are living in exciting times right now. Tridonic is developing from a lighting component manufacturer, pure and simple, to a lighting technology expert. In Jörg Kessler we have an accomplished sales and marketing manager on our side who will actively support us in this process with his extensive experience and his analytical approach”, said van Tartwijk. “We wish David Barnby a long and happy retirement and thank him warmly for his loyalty, for the expertise that he has brought to Tridonic over the past four years, and for all his hard work in driving the transformation of Tridonic,” he added.
Speaking about his new role, Kessler said: “I’m delighted to be bringing my experience to Tridonic in this fascinating phase for the lighting industry. Tridonic has already introduced some important strategic measures which will strengthen the company for the age of the Internet of Things. This development towards a lighting technology company with expertise in software, IT, hardware and services will continue to be the focus and we shall press ahead with marketing appropriate solution concepts.”
Kessler can look back on more than 25 years of relevant international experience in sales and business management that he has acquired in the IT, software, services and lighting sectors. He began his career with Siemens immediately after completing his studies in laser technology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. Among other things, he worked for Siemens in Singapore from 2005 to 2007 and strengthened the sales and services sector there as Senior Vice President. He then held various sales positions at Nokia Siemens Networks and Siemens. As Senior Vice President, the now 53-year-old headed Osram’s sales activities in West Europe and was responsible for a team of 600 employees. From October 2014 to 2017 he was the CEO for the LPD (Low Pressure Discharge Lamps) division at Osram/LEDvance.
‘Twisted’ light could illuminate new path for wireless communications
(UK) - Scientists have taken an important step towards using ‘twisted’ light as a form of wireless, high-capacity data transmission which could make fibre-optics obsolete.
In a new report published in the journal Science Advances, a team of physicists based in the UK, Germany, New Zealand and Canada describe how new research into ‘optical angular momentum’ (OAM) could overcome current difficulties with using twisted light across open spaces.
Scientists can ‘twist’ photons – individual particles of light – by passing them through a special type of hologram, similar to that on a credit card, giving the photons a twist known as optical angular momentum.
While conventional digital communications use photons as ones and zeroes to carry information, the number of intertwined twists in thephotons allows them to carry additional data – something akin to adding letters alongside the ones and zeroes. The ability of twisted photons to carry additional information means that optical angular momentum has the potential to create much higher-bandwidth communications technology.
While optical angular momentum techniques have already been used to transmit data across cables, transmitting twisted light across open spaces has been significantly more challenging for scientists to date. Even simple changes in atmospheric pressures across open spaces can scatter light beams and cause the spin information to be lost.
The researchers examined the effects on both the phase and intensity of OAM carrying light over a real link in an urban environment to assess the viability of these modes of quantum information transfer.
Their free space link, in Erlangen, Germany, was 1.6km in length and passed over fields and streets and close to high-rise buildings to accurately simulate an urban environment and atmospheric turbulence that can disrupt information transfer in space – a thorough approach that will be instrumental in moving OAM research forward.
Conducting this field tests in a real urban environment, has revealed exciting new challenges that will that must be overcome before systems can be made commercially available. Previous studies had indicated the potential feasibly of OAM communication systems, but had not fully characterised the effects of turbulent air on the phase of the structured light propagating over links of this length.
Dr. Martin Lavery, head of the Structured Photonics Research Group at University of Glasgow, is the lead author on the team’s research paper. Dr Lavery said: “In an age where our global data consumption is growing at an exponential rate, there is mounting pressure to discover new methods of information carrying that can keep up with the huge uptake in data across the world.
“A complete, working optical angular momentum communications system capable of transmitting data wirelessly across free space has the potential to transform online access for developing countries, defence systems and cities around the world.
“Free space optics is a solution that can potentially give us the bandwidth of fibre, but without the requirement for physical cabling.
“This study takes vital steps forward in the journey towards high dimensional free space optics that can be a cheaper, more accessible alternative to buried fibre optics connections.”
The turbulent atmosphere used in this experiment highlighted the fragility of shaped phase fronts, particularly for those that would be integral to high-bandwidth data transfers. This study indicated the challenges future adaptive optical systems will be required to resolve.
Dr. Lavery added: “With these new developments, we are confident that we can now re-think our approaches to channel modelling and the requirement places on adaptive optics systems. We are getting ever closer to developing OAM communications that can be deployed in a real urban setting.
“We want to start a conversation about the issues that need to be addressed and how we are going to move towards the resolution.”
Dr Lavery undertook the work in partnership with researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and Institute of Optics, and the Universities of Otago, Ottawa and Rochester.
These findings allow researchers to address challenges – not previously observed – in developing adaptive optics for quantum information transfer to move closer towards a new age of free space optics that will eventually replace fibre optics as a functional mode of communication in urban environments and remote sensing systems.
The paper, titled ‘Free-space propagation of high dimensional structured optical fields in an urban environment’, is published in Science Advances. The work was funded by Royal Academy of Engineering, EPSRC and was supported by the International Max Planck Partnership.
IALD Enlighten 2018 Calls for Presentations
(USA) - IALD is accepting presentations for its 2018 Enlighten Americas and Enlighten Europe events.
IALD is seeking session proposals for its Enlighten Americas 2018 conference in Seattle, USA and its Enlighten Europe 2018 conference in Barcelona, Spain. The association is looking for thought leaders in the lighting profession to submit presentations that will challenge and inspire.
The two-day Enlighten 2018 conferences will follow a three-track system, featuring courses in the Art (communicating design), Science (shaping the future) and Professional Tools (business & operational side) Tracks. IALD is looking for sessions of varying length, including hands-on workshops.
Enlighten Americas will be held on 11-13 October 2018 at the Motif hotel in Seattle, Washington USA. Presentations will be accepted online at www.ialdenlightenamericas2018cfp.hubb.me.
Enlighten Europe will be held on 7-9 November 2018 at the Pullman Barcelona Skipper in Barcelona, Spain. Presentations will be accepted online at www.ialdenlighteneurope2018cfp.hubb.me/.
Proposals must be submitted by 2nd January 2018.
Acte Lumière wins Codega Prize
(Italy) - Jean-Yves Soetinck follows darc awards win with Codega Prize for his Strasbourg Cathedral project.
The fifth edition of the Codega Prize, the international awards programme for LED solutions and lighting design excellence, was attended by over 130 people from the lighting industry at the wonderful setting of Villa Foscarini in Venice on 13th October.
The Prize is promoted and organized by international associations such as Assodel (Italian Federation of Electronics Clusters) in partnership with IDEA (International Distribution of Electronics Association) and under the patronage of APIL (Italian Association of Lighting Professionals), AILD (Italian Association of Lighting Designers), A-PDI (Asociacion Disenadores de Illuminacion).
The judges panel consisted of Silvio Baronchelli, President of Assodel and Tecnoimprese, organisers of Illuminotronica and the Codega Prize; Stefano Catucci, Teacher of Aesthetics at the Faculty of Architecture at ‘La Sapienza’, University of Rome; Francesco Iannone, founder of Consuline lighting design; Paul James, publisher / editor-in-chief of arc magazine; Massimo Malaguti, Past Director of the Univeneto Foundation; Fabio Peron, Associate Professor of Environmental Physics at the IUAV University of Venice; Thomas Römhild Director of the Architectural Lighting Design at Wismar University; Maurizio Rossi, Director of Laboratorio Luce; Esther Torellò, publisher of Lightecture; and Paola Urbano, lighting designer and co-founder of APIL.
First prize in the Lighting Design category went to Strasbourg Cathedral by French lighting design studio Acte Lumière, with principal Jean-Yves Soetinck in attendance to collect the award.
The judges stated: “A classic setting of the project with a perfect application of lighting technics. The result represents an elegant and conservative approach of the architectural principles.”
Second place went to the IMX Spiral – Zeleno Park by ACTLD for “an innovative project thanks to the use of “media façade” technologies realized in an architectural, creative and original way. A perfect integration between architecture and lighting technologies”.
PCK control room, realised by Lichtvision, won the third prize.
“The project is a combination of architecture and technology following the needs of the circadian cycle. It is a Human Centric Lighting project. Dynamism becomes innovation of working areas in a creative way,” commented the judges.
Finally, a special mention was given to the German studio Licht Kunst Licht for three projects which have been considered of very high value: State Parliament of Baden-Wurttemberg; German Ivory Museum; and Sayn Iron Works Foundry.
The judges stated: “This special mention goes to a global approach of lighting design that is based on innovation. Not only technological innovation, but also formal and architectural innovation. When a designing process is based on new ways of thinking, it becomes an ispiration for global lighting design.”
First prize in LED Solutions went to a particularly innovative product, Quantum by Studio Cavalchini for “a classic industrial design configuration that incorporates new technologies”.
Special recognition was given to the Stogger Wireless Lighting solution by the Dutch start-up Stogger for the “new and revolutionary application concept that opens the way to custom design modes with LEDs”.
Martin Valentine joins Ligman as Global Design Director
(UK) - Martin Valentine has left his role as Lighting Expert at the Municipality of Abu Dhabi to become of Global Design Director of the Thailand-based lighting manufacturer, Ligman.
Valentine will be reporting directly to Ligman’s President & CEO Sakchai Manawongsakul and will be relocating to the UK from the Middle East to work alongside Craig Stead, the new UK & EU Sales Director, and his team.
Stead comes to Ligman with 20+ years of experience in the lighting marketplace; previously holding management and director positions within Philips, Urbis-Schreder, Proligic and Nualight and his exceptional sales achievements have been recognised for many years. He is a Member of the Society of Light and Lighting and is a well-known and popular figure within the industry: "I am delighted to be joining Ligman Lighting and entrusted to continue its long history and established international growth within the UK and Europe."
Valentine’s work will encompass helping to define future Ligman interior and exterior product R&D and linking up with the international lighting design community and clients concerning technology, quality, standards, training, events and marketing. He will liaise with Ligman offices, departments and teams worldwide with a strong focus on supporting our European, Asian, Australian, Middle Eastern and North American markets.
Valentine has worked in the field of specialist lighting design for over 30-years. A Masters graduate from the Bartlett School of Architecture, his experience encompasses a multitude of sectors from government buildings through to national museums, for environments as uniquely diverse as Antarctica and the Middle East, and undertaking varied roles within these spheres from both the designer and client sides. He joins Ligman from his previous role as Lighting Expert for Abu Dhabi, where his work included leading the implementation of an Emirate-wide Sustainable Lighting Strategy, revising all Municipal lighting standards through cross-working with other government stakeholders and establishing award-winning new lighting design best practices.
Valentine is an internationally renowned figure in lighting and in 2016 was both made a Fellow of the Society of Light and Lighting and presented with LuxLive Middle East’s ‘Person of the Year’: “I am very excited about the new role. I have respected Ligman and their products for many years and they quickly gained my admiration for their vision and quality. Working with Craig is a wonderful plus; as we have known each other for over 10-years.”
Ligman Lighting was founded in 1995 with the objective of designing, manufacturing and distributing world class, high efficiency, top quality outdoor and indoor lighting products. For over 21 years, every Ligman product has employed cutting-edge technology born of a rigorous R&D process, using state of the art design and manufacturing software, leading CNC machinery and tooling, only the highest quality components available and accredited laboratory testing. Ligman fixtures are used in over 60 countries around the world and in some of the most challenging environments on the planet.
Manawongsakul; Ligman President & CEO, states: “Both Martin and Craig are highly respected figures with proven track records and I warmly welcome them to Ligman Lighting. This is great news for Ligman and for our existing and future customers.”
darc room breaks the mould of lighting exhibitions
(UK) - darc room, London Design Festival's creative lighting specification exhibition organised by mondo*arc, darc and Light Collective, attracted over 1,000 attendees for its inaugural event in the heart of London.
darc room is a curated, creative lighting exhibition in the heart of London for specifiers and designers. darc room offered inspiration and solutions for anyone involved in lighting specification by featuring high end lighting suppliers, creative lighting installations and a speaker program involving lighting designers, light artists, product designers and architects.
Paul James, director of darc room, commented: “We are delighted with the way the first darc room was received by the lighting community and by the London Design Festival public. Everyone who came commented on how great the concept was and how amazing the space looked. It was a real shot in the arm to the traditional lighting exhibition.”
Light installations included 'Sunlight Graffiti' by Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun project giving visitors a chance to leave their mark in a unique way by creating their own Sunlight Graffiti images with a Little Sun solar lamp. Light art was also provided by lighting designers creating a series of geodesic domes with integrated light taken from the darc night event celebrating the best in lighting design.
The extensive speaker program, darc thoughts, included artist and innovator Daan Roosgaarde who discussed ‘Landscapes of the Future'; Felix Hallwachs, CEO of Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun solar light project; Kerem Asfuroglu of Speirs + Major; Daniel Stromborg of Gensler; Dean Skira; Eoin Billings; Flynn Talbot; Rebecca Weir; Tapio Rosenius and Paul Nulty.
Exhibitors included Anolis, Applelec, Artemide, ATEA, atelier sedap, Brightgreen, CoeLux, DARK, David Trubridge, Delta Light, DesignLED, EcoLED, EcoSense Lighting, Enigma, Exenia, Filix, formalighting, InventDesign, Lamp Lighting, LED Linear, li:fy, Lightly Technologies, Linea Light, Luci LED, Lumenpulse, Megaman / Tom Dixon, Optelma, Radiant Lighting, Reggiani, Soraa, Targetti, Tokio, tossB, Tryka LED, Turnlights, WILA, Unibox and Xicato.
darc awards / architectural reaches climax at darc night
(UK) - LD Studio of Brazil won the coveted darc award during darc night, the darc awards / architectural ceremony, that took place at MC Motors in London on September 14th.
The darc awards / architectural, organised by mondo*arc together with creative consultants Light Collective, is a celebration of the world’s best lighting design and is the world’s only peer-to-peer lighting design awards. darc night is a unique event to celebrate the winners of darc awards / architectural consisting of street food, a free bar and light installations by top lighting designers and manufacturers.
The winners were:
STRUCTURES: Best Exterior Lighting Scheme – Low Budget and darc award (project with the most votes): Pier Mauá Cranes, Brazil by LD Studio, Brazil.
STRUCTURES: Best Exterior Lighting Scheme – High Budget: Strasbourg Cathedral, France by L’Acte Lumiere, France.
PLACES: Best Interior Lighting Scheme – Low Budget: German Ivory Museum, Germany by Licht Kunst Licht, Germany.
PLACES: Best Interior Lighting Scheme – High Budget: Bahá’í Temple of South America, Chile by Limarí Lighting Design, Chile.
SPACES: Best Landscape Lighting Scheme – Low Budget: Cleveland House Canal Tunnel, UK by Enlightened, UK.
SPACES: Best Landscape Lighting Scheme – High Budget: Nova Lumina, Canada by Moment Factory, Canada.
ART: Best Light Art Scheme – Low Budget: Heart Berat, UK by GNI Projects, UK.
ART: Best Light Art Scheme – High Budget: Twisted, Croatia by Skira, Croatia.
EVENT: Best Creative Lighting Event: Winter Lights at Canary Wharf, UK by Keith Watson & Canary Wharf Group.
KIT: Best Architectural Lighting Products – Exterior Luminaires: TILE Exterior by Cooledge.
KIT: Best Architectural Lighting Products – Interior Luminaires: CoeLux XT by CoeLux.
Free admission to darc night was available to independent lighting designers that voted as well as to interior designers and architects turning the traditional awards ceremony protocol on its head. Over 600 people were in attendance to witness a superb night.
The awards evening was a complete change to the norm with free street food and drinks all night, light installations by lighting designers who teamed up with the sponsoring manufacturer partners, and a completely different format for presenting the evening.
There were over 300 entries for the darc awards, an amazing response and proof that designers are looking for something new and refreshing. As if to prove the international calibre of the competition, six of the nine project categories were won by overseas projects.
Projects were shortlisted by an international panel of professional architectural lighting designers and light artists before being voted on by the lighting design profession in the first ever peer-to-peer lighting design awards.
Product categories went straight to the public vote so that lighting designers could genuinely vote for their favourite products from the last three years.
Manufacturer partners were John Cullen Lighting (who teamed up with Speirs + Major); EcoSense (Nulty+); Formalighting (Elektra); LED Linear (dpa); Filix (LDI); Lumenpulse (Michael Grubb Studio); Delta Light (Arup); Reggiani (Lichtvision); Anolis (ACTLD); L&L Luce&Light (MBLD); Tryka (artec3 Studio); and Concord (Hoare Lea).
Each manufacturer / designer team was responsible for creating a lighting installation that was on display during darc night.
www.darcawards.com/architectural
CEO of Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun to talk at darc room
(UK) - Felix Hallwachs, CEO of Studio Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun solar light project, will be part of darc thoughts, the lecture programme at darc room.
Felix Hallwachs has worked with artist Olafur Eliasson since 2005 and has been developing works and exhibitions with his studio since 2006 as Studio Director until moving fully to the Little Sun solar light project in 2013. He will give an insight on Olafur Eliasson’s projects striving to make the concerns of art relevant to society at large. Art, for him, is a crucial means for turning thinking into doing in the world.
Olafur Eliasson commented: “Light is for everyone – it determines what we do and how we do it. It has a clear functional and aesthetic impact on our lives. I have always considered light to be more than just something that illuminates things. Life and light are actually inseparable, and for some time now, I have wanted to work not just with light in museums and exhibitions, but to do something where I use light in a more ambitious way that is integrated into the world.”
All talks are free for registered visitors and seats are on a first come first served basis.
darc room will take place at B1, a unique 22,000 sqm space in Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, central London, from September 21st – 23rd 2017 as part of London Design Festival.
The exhibition will consist of leading lighting manufacturers displaying their latest products, light installations and a series of lectures tackling lighting design, technology, sustainability and architecture.
Participants include alphaLED, Anolis, Applelec, Artemide, ATEA, atelier sedap, Brightgreen, Coelux, DARK, David Trubridge, Delta Light, EcoLED, EcoSense, Electric Bench, Enigma Lighting, Exenia, Factorylux, Forma, InventDesign, Lamp Lighting, LED Linear, li:fy, Lightly Technologies, Linea Light, Little Sun, Luci LED, Lumenpulse, Megaman, molo, Optelma, Radiant Lighting, Reggiani, Soraa, Targetti, Tokio, Tom Dixon, tossB, Tryka, Turnlights, Unibox, WILA and Xicato.
As well as Hallwachs, the darc thoughts lecture programme will include the artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde; Croatian Lighting Designer, Dean Skira; Daniel Stromborg, Product Designer at Gensler USA; Kerem Asfuroglu, Lighting Designer at Speirs + Major; Paul Nulty, Founder and Lighting Designer at Nulty; Rebecca Weir, Founder and Creative Director at Light IQ; and lighting artist Flynn Talbot.
In addition, Eoin Billings, Founding Partner at Billings Jackson Design; Nick Durrant, Founder at Plot; Nat Roberton, Programme Manager at Bristol Legible City Project; and Hugh Sullivan, Founder at Electric Bench will be discussing the transformation of the urban environment by the Internet of Things.
