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As a lighting designer do you think about what you want from lighting control? Or do you leave it to someone else and assume it’ll be OK?
9:15 AM
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Lighting designers are being pulled into lighting control decisions more than ever, yet many feel the process is opaque, overly technical, or simply too complicated. This session is designed to give practising lighting designers a clear, unbiased grounding in what actually matters when planning or reviewing a control strategy - with no brand agendas and no unnecessary jargon.
9:15 AM
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The lighting design for Stuttgart 21 was conceived as a long-term vision—imagined before the technical means to realize it were fully available. This session begins by emphasizing the power of visionary thinking: how ambitious concepts were defined with only a conceptual framework, anticipating technological evolution and design challenges over more than 25 years.
9:15 AM
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The Hindu Mandir in Abu Dhabi, the first traditional Hindu temple in the Emirates, is a powerful symbol of cultural diversity, interfaith harmony, and contemporary sacred architecture. For Studio Lumen, the project demanded a lighting approach that was not only technically rigorous and environmentally responsible, but spiritually sensitive and deeply rooted in cultural meaning.
10:45 AM
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The Reserve, Singapore is one of the world's highest capacity vaults in the world. It is featured in Wallstreet Journal, Bloomsberg and won numerous architectural and lighting awards. Learn more about the challenges behind illuminating the luminous onyx facade which has no backing, and the facade also appreciated from inside the building.
10:45 AM
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This session explores the outcomes of SHAPE-THE-LIGHT, a 30-month European initiative co-funded by the EU Commission under the Creative Europe Programme, bringing together four lighting clusters from Italy, Spain, France, and Belgium to bridge the worlds of art, design, and technology.
10:45 AM
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While lighting technologies, research and pedagogic strategies have changed dramatically over the years, lighting design in school classrooms has stayed very similar throughout the decades, promoting even, diffuse illumination in line with guidelines. Based on a multi-year research project situated at a school in central Sweden, this session will discuss lighting design processes and proposals for educational spaces focusing on children's vantage points, and their activities throughout the school day.
12:00 PM
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This session offers an in-depth exploration of the lighting design process for one of the world’s most significant Gothic landmarks: Cologne Cathedral. The project addresses the inherent tension between celebrating spirituality through light and preserving the integrity of a UNESCO World Heritage site, while also responding to increasing demands for environmental responsibility and the reduction of light pollution.
12:00 PM
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Lighting designers didn’t enter this profession to spend hundreds of hours on repetitive admin: proposals, luminaire schedules, tender reviews, regulatory notes, and endless coordination loops. This session shows how AI augments Lighting Designers by handling the “grunt work layer,” so designers can spend more time doing what they love: “creating magic with light.”
2:00 PM
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For more than a century, the way we design and implement urban street lighting has barely changed. We have moved from gas to discharge to LED, but the underlying logic remains the same: fixed grids of poles, uniformity targets, and “better safe than sorry” light levels. The result is familiar to all of us: chronic overlighting, light pollution, light trespass, and wasted energy embedded into our cities for decades at a time.
2:00 PM
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A review of projects from the FMS studios trace the evolution of the practice of lighting design over the past 25 years as our design strategies have responded to increased understanding of the effects of electric lighting at night on flora, fauna, and dark skies, and the arrival and dominance of the LED in architectural lighting.
3:30 PM
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We all experience lighting intuitively, but clients often struggle to describe what they see, feel, or expect. This gap between perception and language can create hesitation, misunderstanding, or decision-making lacking intent. In practice as lighting designers, a significant part of the process is not only designing light, but helping others learn how to see light.
3:30 PM
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This presentation explores the evolution of urban lighting in Paris, from the Middle Ages to the present day. It examines why Paris is known as the “City of Light,” considering not only technical and physical aspects but also the social, political, and cultural dimensions.
4:40 PM
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