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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
