(UK) – Fourth Light School to visit London’s Business Design Centre from 7-9 February. 

Light School will be hosted within Surface Design Show 2017 at the Business Design Centre in London from 7-9 February.

For over ten years Surface Design Show has focused solely on interior and exterior surfaces, connecting innovative and exciting materials with a specifying audience of architects and designers. Light is a vital partner to surface design, changing interior and exterior surfaces dramatically – Light School attendees will discover the best of new lighting design and learn about the important partnership between surface and light.

Now in its fourth year, Light School presented by The Light Collective and supported by the Institute of Lighting Professionals consists of three parts: Light Talks, Product School and the School Newspaper.

The School Room

The School Room hosts Light Talks sponsored by Luctra; two and a half days of lessons and hands-on demos with top UK lighting designers taking on the role of lecturers. The programme of talks provides the audience with access to the UK’s leading lighting designers, many of whom are returning for the second or third year. This year’s speakers will include David Atkinson of David Atkinson Lighting Design, Sanjit Bahra of Design Plus Light, Ellie Coombs of Nulty, Rebecca Weir of Light IQ and Sally Storey of Lighting Design International. The auditorium will feature the award winning Flex by Luctra, which is a cordless and portable lamp designed to enhance wellbeing and productivity by harnessing the biological effect of light.

Product School

Product School is the home of architectural lighting and provides architects and designers with a comprehensive review of lighting innovation and technology. Visitors can touch, compare and learn about innovative lighting products from exhibitors including Spectral, Applelec, Optelma, Baro, Wila, Evans Turner, Visive, Selux and Lumiscopic. One new product introduced for Light School will be a range of illuminated surfaces from Lumiscopic featuring their trademark dichoric materials which appear to change colour depending on the viewing angle. Whilst Baro will be showcasing their recently developed LED hybrid technology; a special 3D silicone lens on the LED module which ensures that less light is directly emitted and more light reaches the target surface in a controlled manner via the reflector facets.

In 2016 British lighting company Factorylux launched a new range of Xicato powered architectural spotlights, pendants, wall lights and lighting track. During Surface Design Show Factorylux will be hosting a series of lighting workshops where attendees make, test and certify a complete luminaire to BS EN 60598. Workshops are in #TheVan a purpose built mobile workspace which has just completed a hugely successful Trans-Europe Express Tour. The van will be situated at the entrance to the Business Design Centre and the 1 hour workshops will take place during the opening times of the event.

School Newspaper

Every school has a newspaper and of course Light School is no exception. The Light School Newspaper, sponsored by Xicato, is a free newspaper sent out to 70,000 architects, designers and specifiers. Plus every attendee gets a free copy to take away at the end of the ‘school day’. The newspaper contains articles on Lighting Design, Product School and interviews from Light Talks lecturers.

Attendees have the opportunity to choose from three stages during Surface Design Show, they are the Main Stage, the CPD Hub and Light Talks. The Main Stage is home to the headline acts and will host twelve keynote presentations. The CPD Hub gives our professional audience the chance to update and gain points at the latest CPD approved seminars, before transforming into The Stone Hub on the final day to dive deep into the stone industry.

Highlighted below are just a few of the seminars taking place over the two and a half day show.

Tuesday 7 February

The Main Stage Sponsored by Ceramiche Ricchetti	CPD Hub	Light School
18.00 SDS Opens	18.00 SDS Opens	18.00 SDS Opens
18.30 – 20.00 Live Debate Good Design is Narrative Design Hosted by David Michon	19.00 – 19.45 Helping the Client Visualise your Design Vectorworks	6.30 – 18.45 Light Collective
		18.45 – 19.45 Blobs, Scallops and Glowing Things: Serving up the language of light from the depths of the oceanStuart Alexander, Mike Grubb Studio
		19.45 – 20.45 Colour by Numbers Christopher Knowlton
21.00 SDS Closes	21.00 SDS Closes	21.00 SDS Closes

 

Wednesday 8 February

The Main Stage Sponsored by Ceramiche Ricchetti	CPD Hub	Light School
11.00 SDS Opens	11.00 SDS Opens	11.00 SDS Opens
11.30 – 12.15 Surface Trend Forecast from the Houzz Community Ffion Francis, Industry Marketing, Houzz.co.uk	11.45 – 12.30 Sound Proofing Insulation Solutions Cellecta	11.15 – 12.15 Emilio Hernandez, Nulty +
12.30 – 13.30 Future trends in Hospitality Design Hosted by Sleeper Erik Weber, International Project Manager, Rosskopf + PartnerJason Cox, Head of Sales & Specification, Isomi / Rosskopf + Partner	12.45 – 13.30 Acoustics & ArchitectureTexaa	12.15 – 13.15 Seriously Light HeartedIngo Kalecinski, DPA
14.15 – 15.00 Sustainable Design, Health and Wellbeing in Higher EducationHosted by FISElina Grigoriou, Grigoriou Design and Chair, RICS SKA RatingEvan Landy EHS, (Environment) Officer, University College LondonAndrew Parkin Acoustics, Partner, Cundall	13.45 – 14.30 New 2018 Trends and Collections for the Imaginative MindGerflor	13.15 – 14.15 Communicating the Intangible: How we talk about lightKelli Zezulka, University of Leeds
16.15 – 17.00 3 Key Design Trends AW 2017/18: Translated into TexturesScarlet Opus	14.45 – 15.30 Wood Veneer: Using a precious natural resource Mundy Veneer	14.15 – 15.15 Lighting for Learning Spaces: More than illuminationDan Lister, Arup
17.15 – 18.00 Inspiring Hospitality Design Hosted by Stirling Johnstone, Editor GS MagazineUna Barak, Group Director, Scott BrownriggMartin Hulbert, Founder & CEO, MHD	15.45 – 16.30 Solid Surfacing: Infinitely Versatile Blackheath Products	16.15 – 17.15 Everything You Wanted to Know about Hospitality Lighting – But Were Afraid to Ask Rob Honeywill, Maurice Brill Lighting Design
18.30 – 20.00 PechaKucha EveningChaired by Phil Coffey, Coffey Architects Chris Dyson, Chris Dyson ArchitectsElly Ward, Ordinary ArchitectureHenning Stummel, Henning Stummel ArchitectsTimo Haedrich, Haptic Architects David Howarth, DRDH Architects Lawrence Egret, Studio Egret West Matthew Driscoll, Threefold Architects Paul Ruff, RUFFNASSETTI Sam Jacob, Sam Jacob Architects	16.45 – 17.30 UV Stable Digital Printing onto Ceramic, Porcelain, Glass and Enamel Steel Panels Tiled Space	17.15 – 18.15 How Lighting is Painting Material Benz Roos, Speirs and Major
21.00 SDS Closes	17.45 – 18.30 Living Walls for Healthy Interiors Scotscape	18.15 – 19.15 Is It the Time to Redefine the Term Hospitality and Redraw the Boundaries?Maida Hot, GIA Equations
	19.00 – 14.45 Helping the Client Visualise Your Design
	20.00 – 20.45 Oikos	21.00 SDS Closes
	21.00 SDS Closes

 

Thursday 9 February

The Main Stage Sponsored by Ceramiche Ricchetti	Stone Hub	Light School
11.00 SDS Opens	11.00 SDS Opens	11.00 SDS Opens
11.30 – 12.15 Surface Spotlight Trends: Colour, texture and material directions for Hospitality & EducationSally Angharad, Trend Consultant & Design Writer	11.45 – 12.30 Stone me! The Advantages of Using a Stone Professional when Specifying Interior Stone FinishesRobert Merry, Stone Consultants	11.15 – 12.15 Taking Control of Your Guests’ Experience: How lighting can influence your guests’ experience Charlotte Svenson, Lighting Design International
12.45 – 13.30 A Sense of Place: Cultural Identity & Hospitality Design Hosted by BIIDAriane Steinbeck, RPW Design	12.45 – 13.30 The Essential Guide to Substrate Preparation and Stone InstallationSteve Turner, Amarestone	12.15 – 13.15 Lighting for Health and Wellbeing – what’s that all about?John Bullock, John Bullock Lighting Design
14.00 – 15.00 Mick Jordan, Editor of Mix Interiors interviews the winner of the Supreme Award at the Surface Design Awards 2017	13.45 – 14.30 The Benefits of Using Next Generation Water-based Epoxide Grouts in Cutting-edge Stone Installations: sustainability, user-friendliness and creative flexibility Ori Lamm, Smartified SolutionsPeter Vann, Ceramique Internationale	13.15 – 14.15 Adding the LUX to LUXury: A pictorial strategy to hospitality lighting. Gerardo Olvera, Light IQ
15.30 – 16.15 Robust and Beautiful Facades: New developments in concrete claddingElaine Toogood, ‎Senior Architect at ‎The Concrete Centre	14.45 – 15.45 Sealing Natural Stone Surfaces: Options and Outcomes Martin Ballard, Fila UK	14.15 – 15.15 Human Centric Lighting: The myths and the realityMark Ridler, BDP
17.00 SDS Closes	16.00 – 16.45 The Importance of Cleaning and Maintaining Natural Stone Surfaces: cleaning options, site benefits and aesthetic impactMartin Ballard, Fila UK	15.15 – 16.15 Paloma Plumed Martin, Light Bureau
	17.00 SDS Closes	17.00 SDS Closes

For the full programme of events and seminars visit the surface design show website below.

Professionals can attend for free by registering via the website

www.lightcollective.net
www.surfacedesignshow.com

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