Join John Martin, IALD public policy consultant, and a team of IALD volunteers and staff, to explore the ways public policy affects you and your work, and to leran how you can in turn affect policies. On the one hand, the terms “public policy” or “regulatory affairs” make most of us run screaming from the room. On the other hand, a small amount of knowledge, a will to participate and explore unfamiliar territory, and coordination among professional colleagues mean that you can help shape policy decisions, such as energy code provisions, that may directly affect you and your practice!
Join Lighting-Related Organizations founder Chiara Carucci and IALD Public Policy consultant John Martin as they discuss the International Year of Light 2015 (IYL 2015). The session will focus on how lighting organizations are using IYL 2015 to communicate more powerfully than ever the wonder, impact and importance of light for human endeavors and for the built environment. In the tenth month of IYL 2015, what changes have we seen in how both lay persons and lighting professionals think about and talk about light and lighting? We will share fun examples of IYL 2015 activities and discuss implications for how best to communicate about light in 2016 and beyond.
This presentation will describe the process and results of the IES Color Metric Task Group's work to develop a recommended color rendition metric. Group members will be present to discuss the novel features of the evaluation system, how it compares and relates to other ongoing efforts, best practices and remaining limitations, and the path forward as the lighting industry transitions from existing metrics to more complete and accurate measures. A tutorial will be provided so that various constituents are comfortable in calculating values and interpreting the results.
We need to understand Light’s value as a psychological trigger, not just as a mechanistic function of eyesight. C.G.Jung’s references to Light can all be found within his Alchemical texts where he studied how Renaissance philosophers had unconsciously projected the inner workings of their minds and belief systems into their studies of observable phenomena, and nowhere is this more true than their studies in Alchemy and Light.
Newton, the father of Optics, spent 20 years studying alchemy. Newton’s study of light was not just an empirical study of Light, it was also a study of the consciousness that is inherent in each of us. Contemporaries to Newton wrote about light in a very specific manner at a time when there was no empirical separation between matter and soul, the adversarial relationship between Church and Galileo erupted in 1633 yet there were many successful published ‘scientists’ within Rome’s Church observing empirical matters but still with an imbued spiritual meaning, in particular Athanasius Kircher.
Comparing his text on Opticks with Paracelsus, Hermes Trismegistus, Newton, Kepler, John Dee, the Splendor Solis and the stunning maps of Andreas Cellarius, we see a picture emerge of Light as the conscious emanating principle of ‘Man’ himself.
Shading design has been a frequently discussed topic in both practice and the academia. This presentation will demonstrate a user-friendly method for shading design which links daylight simulation based on Radiance and multi-objective genetic algorithms, thus far used primarily in the computer science field of artificial intelligence and computer-automated design. Multiple objectives such as daylight availability and glare control can be set based on lighting requirements of specific function of the space, to provide large range of shading application. The resulting data can be combined with shading design proposal that provides designers and building owners interested in installing a dynamic shading system with data regarding shading geometry, transmittance, and operation. The multiple objectives include annual Useful Daylight Illuminance (UDI) and annual Daylight Glare Probability (DGP). The optimized parameters of shading can be provided in the early stage of building design to achieve a better performance on indoor daylight environment as well as energy saving.
Light transforms space and the human experience. In this talk, Luisa Álvarez, a light artist, will explore how urban, often inhospitable environments can be changed into interesting and welcoming places for a limited time, sometimes just a few hours, sometimes several days. For many years, Luisa has carried out ephemeral art installations, using light as an art medium in urban spaces. Her main intention is to achieve an interaction with both visitors and casual passers-by within a playful space, allowing the work to grow and evolve organically. She will highlight how the urban space can be used as an outdoor living room, where everyone can live a different experience, in this case with light. Luisa will discuss how experimentation, vindication, habitation, play and sensorial spaces all contribute to set the tone of the finished work, informing its intention and the message it seeks to convey.
In a lighting design practice of any size, adopting professional project management techniques can bring remarkable improvements in productivity and profitability.
Distilled down from a full four-day course, this fast-paced romp through the essentials of project management delivers the concentrated highlights – concepts, terminology, and the tools and techniques most useful for the specific challenges faced by lighting designers.
Based on an internationally accepted, standard syllabus, topics covered include: stakeholder management, scope control, configuration management and change control, estimating, risk management, close-out, and many others… all in an hour!
An estimated 1.6 billion or approximately 25% of the people in the world live without electricity. Additionally, 40% of the world's population lives on less than the equivalent of $2 US/day and cannot afford electricity or electric lighting. Instead, the sole source of light is either a kerosene lantern or wood fire. The poor light that results from the use of these sources seriously limits the education and economic activities of families using these sources, resulting in a continuing cycle of poverty. Recently, there have been a number of efforts to address this issue but none have really addressed the issue from a lighting point of view, but rather have focused on the source of power. This presentation addresses this issue in a more comprehensive fashion, reporting on student work in a course dedicated to this issue and in particular exploring the issue from social, cultural, economic, and global sustainability perspectives. The presenter will report on this work in the context of his personal experience in delivering solar-powered lighting systems to a remote village in Senegal, and the first-hand experience of the conditions there. In particular, the presenter will share the validation of much of what was discovered through the work of the students, and suggest how this work might be extended to reach a much larger portion of the world in need.
Japan has been rapidly adopting LED lighting for art galleries and museums due to its evolving color rendering properties and light emitting efficiency. Lighting designers Ryuichi Sawada and Tatsuya Iwai, responsible for four such lighting projects, introduce LED-related works in Japan at the Hoki Museum, Arts Maebash, the Heisei Chishinkan Wing of the Kyoto National Museum and the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. Each lecture addresses a different style of project, and attendees can expect to learn something about optimal LED lighting design in regard to each. Also covered will be matters of harmony in architecture and lighting, issues that arose in the process of design and construction and their resolution, and the reception the designs have received from the project owners, artistic staff, and visitors. Attendees can expect hints and inspiration that can be put to use in future exhibition space LED lighting projects.
Successful managers know that finding the right people can make or break a firm. Mistakes can be expensive, not only in a monetary sense but in terms of staff morale. Join principals from two illustrious firms—Helen Diemer, FIALD, principal and president at the Lighting Practice, a lighting design practice based in Philadelphia and Sara Lappano, principal in the SmithGroupJJR engineering group in Washington, DC —in an interactive engaging session as they discuss what they look for when hiring that has made their firms so successful. Helen and Sara will not only share what they’ve done right but also what they’ve done wrong so you can learn from their mistakes.
Historically, daylighting design has required time intensive analysis relegating it as a reactive validation reserved for projects with extended design schedules and larger budgets. However, environmental analysis is critical to meeting increasingly stringent energy codes and forward-thinking sustainability targets like the 2030 challenge. In order to effectively influence a project, this analysis must be provided early in the design process when architects are shaping massing, orientation, program, and facade development. Parametric computational tools enable meaningful daylighting analysis to move at the speed of design. The responsiveness and flexibility of new parametric visual scripting interfaces allow daylighting design to provide customized analysis; from a validation task focused on crunching numbers to a holistic design partnership directed at surgically improving the overall design quality. This presentation will examine the partnership between architect and lighting designer focusing on one case study as the speakers describe the tools and workflow utilized and how this process allows daylighting design to be feasible, accessible, and valuable to a broad range of project types.
This talk will demystify the lighting distribution channel. You will learn how your fixtures make it from your specifications into the field and the many things that can go right or wrong in between. You will gain a better understanding of how to budget your projects in design and protect your specifications during construction.
Lighting design plays a very important role in how people experience an environment: physical or virtual. It serves many roles at the aesthetic, functional as well as the narrative levels. It helps direct attention, establish good visibility, evoke emotions, set the atmosphere, and provide depth. All these are important for digital media, and specifically game design. In this talk Dr. Seif El-Nasr will discuss how she delivers the aesthetic environments that fulfill a designer’s intent given psychological theories of attention and affect. She will talk about the experimental studies conducted to understand users’ experience in virtual environments and how, based on these studies, they were able to augment psychological theories and use them to develop adaptive systems to deliver the art of the game, specifically in terms of lighting color, setup, and dynamic properties all to enhance the users’ experience. She has also been able to apply these techniques to the physical stage and use it for a dance performance. In this talk, Dr. Seif El-Nasr will discuss the systems developed and how they impacted the users’ experience.
Lighting education faces new and exciting challenges and we face a unique opportunity to develop stronger critical design discipline. Design studies across disciplines are adapting to complex problems and changing contexts and aim at preparing students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society. Nowadays, curricular models offer content and structures to incubate skill sets beyond those offered by traditional curricula such as resource conservation, sustainable practices, community participation, and collaborative problem solving. What qualities should lighting education manifest? The speaker will illustrate how we can learn from current trends and demonstrate how a more widespread fluency in light– e.g. the physics of light and materials, the physiology of vision and light and health- complements a renewed understanding of what constitutes “design.”
THIS SESSION SPONSORED BY GE LIGHTING.
Vision experiments were conducted recently using NIST Spectrally Tunable Lighting Facility (STLF) to determine quantitatively the most preferred white points across the Planckian locus and the levels of object color saturation (vividness) in a typical interior room setting. Subjects evaluated color appearance of real fruits, vegetables, their skin tones, and the whole room under various light settings. The results showed that the chromaticity below Planckian locus (Duv≈ -0.015) much outside the range of ANSI C78.377 and lights enhancing chroma at a level of C*ab ≈ 5 (Ra≈ 85) on the average are most preferred. These results indicate that the current standards are unduly restricting color quality design, excluding possibilities of more preferred lighting products. The two-metric system in IES TM-30 tries to address this issue but will not be sufficient to meet the needs fully. A color preference metric and additional specifications for preferred white points will be needed to allow development of possible new products that may provide more comfortable or attractive lighting. Needs for such research and future standards work are also discussed in CIE.
This session is intended first and foremost to inspire those who will attend and to give new perspectives on what lighting design can be. The presenters’ main focus is on the social dimension of lighting design: to work with and for the people, in particular those in socially disadvantaged areas. Social problems cannot be eliminated with lighting design, but design can make cities more enjoyable and safer for those who live there. We will discuss the importance of involving the community in the actual design of their environment. We will also examine how to determine what is unique to each area and discuss how to strengthen and highlight cultural differences so that end users feel proud of where they live.
How does the lighting designer communicate design – through words, drawings, and photographs. Words are the instruments that describe content, drawings communicate intent, and photographs capture the built environment. Join our panel as they discuss these three ways of communicating to convey design concepts and market yourself to prospective clients and employers, especially in our fast paced mobile society. Dwayne Waggoner will discuss the language of light and how its evolution is essential to the profession; Charles Thompson, IALD, a lighting designer and architect with 30 years of practice, will demonstrate lighting drawings from conceptual sketches to details; and Emad Hasan, Associate IALD, will discuss the importance of photography and its ability to evoke powerful emotions.
We live in an amazing time. Science and design are colliding and expanding our knowledge of cause and effect. The physiology and neuroscience of lighting leave the designer with an ethical debate. What is our responsibility when designing? What is reasonable to account for? What is beyond our reach? This session grew out of a chance conversation that a lighting designer had with a bio-ethicist following Enlighten Americas 2014’s keynote address discussing the new neuroscience of architecture. The speakers will debate the true implications of lighting design questions such as circadian rhythm and our influence through electric lighting, glare’s impact of human interaction, etc. This session will explore the questions any designer must ask about the ethics of their design.
Cinematography: the art of lighting and photographing a movie. Translated into animation, how does this work? In this insightful talk, Pixar Director of Photography Danielle Feinberg will shed light on the magic of cinematography in animated film and how the creative freedom computers allow must be harnessed for ultimate storytelling.
David Becker, Chair of the CLD Commission, will present on the importance, value and ambition of the Credential as a global mark of proficiency, followed by an interactive session taking designers through the steps of the application process.
The session is intended to give an overview of the CLD current status, and provide useful tips on how to approach an application, providing an opportunity for attendees to ask questions on the mechanics of submitting an application.
A look at how 'pop' science is influencing the work of lighting designers. Solid research is limited and a lot of what is published is either not well researched or has a commercial slant. This is not intended to be a scientific talk but rather to explore how lighting designers can make the best of utilising lighting to influence circadian rhythms or not.
This presentation will describe the process and results of the IES Color Metric Task Group's work to develop a recommended color rendition metric. Group members will be present to discuss the novel features of the evaluation system, how it compares and relates to other ongoing efforts, best practices and remaining limitations, and the path forward as the lighting industry transitions from existing metrics to more complete and accurate measures. A tutorial will be provided so that various constituents are comfortable in calculating values and interpreting the results.
This paper explores theoretical and practical alternatives to urban lighting master-plan approaches. Taking urban theorist Roger Sherman’s notion of “radical incrementalism” as its point of departure, the paper discusses lighting design strategies that “utilizes accumulation as a means of producing character and identity” over time. A framework based on accumulation promises coherence across vast urban fields in ways that are different than master-planning because they “celebrate the unknowns of taste, value, use and support.” Urban lighting projects, typically accomplished over years, can be sites of bewildering uncertainty: unpredictable sources of financing; shifts in administration, public processes, and stakeholder confidence; changes in design teams and environmental regulations; as well as unanticipated climactic events such as flooding. To respond effectively to these changes—and, wherever possible, to celebrate them— requires a “legible and resilient framework that can over time absorb design and development initiatives by others while retaining its identity.”
Robust strategies for developing lighting designs based on frameworks of accumulation that help municipalities and campuses feel livable, appealing, stimulating, and safe will be discussed. Case studies reviewed are: the Connective Corridor in Syracuse, NY, the Bridgeport Waterfront in Bridgeport, CT, The Menil Collection Campus in Houston, TX, and “Lighting the Way Home” an interdisciplinary collaboration between the YMCA and Arts on the Block, a non-profit community-based arts program in Montgomery County, Maryland. All four case studies demonstrate how impact can accumulate over time while celebrating the unknowns and unpredictability of lighting the urban environment.
To be a great lighting designer, you have to stay in business. To stay in business, you have to know how to formulate a fee proposal. This session will explore various methods of developing fee proposals such as Lump Sum, Hourly, Cost Plus, among others. Other less scientific models include "Gazing at the Stars"; "What the Traffic Will Bear" and "Including the Aggravation Factor”. This session will focus on how to determine your fee, not what to do. David Mintz managed a successful lighting design practice for forty years and will share with you what he learned and what he learned not to do.
This presentation seeks to anticipate what a V3.0 lighting environment will look like. How might lighting be made? What are the challenges faced in designing, making and profiting from this change? The speaker, Naomi Miller, FIALD, intends to explore these questions through developing a product and documenting the process, following development from conceptual images through 3D modelling to physical models. As 3D printing becomes more accessible, how does this affect the pricing strategy of Lighting 3.0? Can the design value of an object be separated from the cost of physically making it? Could there be a shift to an "App Store" style market place for digital lighting products? Naomi will explore these questions as she looks at the business models of Lighting 3.0.
LIGHT THIS! Same name, new concept and an even better experience for you.
Light This! at Enlighten Americas offers lighting designers at all levels the opportunity to get creative in a collaborative and competitive hands-on design charrette. With cocktails in hand, this year’s participants will have exactly 1 hour to construct an innovative light source out of limited supplies, while using only the flashlight function of their smartphones to light their materials. Rules are minimal and anything goes – and we mean ANYTHING! As in other years, there will be winners… based on a people’s vote!
