Please take a look at our all new conference programme below. These theatres will give you access to some of the hottest topics as well as industry experts, and there is plenty more on offer at our co-located event, LuxLive.
Please take note of our keynote sessions highlighted in green.
James Poore is the founder and creative director of JPLD and has been working in the events and production industry since 1997, and in the architectural field, specialising in lighting design, since 2000. Over the years he has enjoyed working on an eclectic range of lighting schemes and projects across the world. He is a member of the SLL, CIBSE and the ILP where he sits on the education committee. He is also a fellow of the RSA.
Arup has conducted a pilot study at its London office into the behavioural effects of dynamic spectrally tunable lighting. This presentation will look at the experiment designed to test whether dynamic sculpting of the light spectra in indoor environments, either to mimic natural daylight changes or achieve particular levels of non-visual vs visual stimulation, may elicit different biological and behavioural effects.
To be successful, a lighting installation has to satisfy the people who use it. To do this lighting that makes people’s tasks visually easy, without causing discomfort, is required. Today lighting also has to contribute to a healthy and attractive environment. Peter Boyce will identify lighting conditions that achieve these aims.
Getting the daylighting right in workplaces has never been more important. We know that daylight is an essential component of health and wellbeing. But it’s not as simple as more daylight is better, because direct sunlight can also have negative consequences, such as glare and overheating. Careful daylighting and shading design are crucial.
The new Deloitte HQ in London redefined the workplace for the firm’s people and clients. The aim was to reflect on people’s needs and working patterns, offering up to 40 different working environments within the building, both promoting interactivity and allowing privacy. Use of light was a crucial element in delivering this ambitious goal.
DaeWha Kang and Dr Marcella Ucci will talk about their work at the Mitie headquarters, where they created an immersive space based on people’s innate need for connection with nature. Using natural materials together with circadian and natural light, a special working environment was created, and a research study monitored and measured its impacts
on worker wellbeing.
The conversation around Human Centric Lighting (HCL) has been going on for over three years. What have we learned in that time; how has the meaning of HCL changed in that time, and what does a HCL specification look like today? John will be looking at HCL from the point of view of the manufacturer, the designer and the end user.
‘We believe we’re ready to go’ with implementing human-centric lighting in the workplace, says leading scientist Mark Rea of the Lighting Research Center in New York. But many experts and organisations, including the Society of Light and Lighting, urge caution and believe that more studies are needed before we can start deploying the technology. So
who’s right? Our panel of experts debate the issues.
Please join us for a special Women in Lighting event which will begin with an introduction from project co-founder Sharon Stammers of Light Collective and lead into a special keynote from Paule Constable, award-winning theatre lighting designer.
War Horse, Les Miserables, Evita, working on Broadway and in the West End, for the RSC and the NT, Paule Constable has breathed light and life into countless plays, operas and musicals. ‘That mercurial and precious element that can change the air in the room – create a roar, an in-breath. Illusive. Beautiful and brutal,’ she says of light. But she confesses to loving storytelling more. She seeks to impose a structure on otherwise unfathomable elements – creating beginnings, middles and endings so that others can follow. She is drawn to finding the perfect essence of something and is often, as a result, accused of an Amish approach to design. Her work is rigorous, extreme and often simple. A literature graduate with no formal lighting training, more obsessed with the language of ideas than with lights, her work is more about darkness than light – more about what isn’t there, what can be imagined... the collective act of storytelling.
James Poore is the founder and Creative Director of JPLD and has been working in the events & production industry since 1997 & in the Architectural industry, specialising in lighting design since 2000. Over the years he has enjoyed working on an eclectic range of lighting schemes & projects across the world. He is a member of the SLL, CIBSE and the ILP where he sits on the education committee, James is also a fellow of the RSA.
Lighting the places and routes created in masterplans and design strategies. An exploration of different approaches, responding to varied geographies and contexts from international to local.
Illuminated River is an ambitious, new public art commission that is lighting up to 15 bridges on the Thames and helping transform the way we see the capital at night. Sarah Gaventa, Director of the Illuminated River Foundation, will discuss the concept of the project, the delivery of the first four bridges now lit, and the role the project plays in a wider discussion about London at night. While Illuminated River lighting engineer, Jonathan Gittins, from Atelier Ten, will provide insight into the design process and technical challenges that have been overcome in bringing the longest public artwork in the world to the public.
If data’s the ‘new oil’, it’s no surprise businesses are hunting data-generating tech. Smart lighting is perfect as a scaleable and secure backbone which can deliver actionable intelligence on how to manage buildings, assets and resources.
Hear from ERP expert with first-hand experience successfully implementing Bluetooth mesh networking technology. Get their assessment of the ease of provisioning and deployment, and see how they were able to prove that a Bluetooth based lighting system can reduce complexity of lighting control while achieving the performance and scalability of wired systems.
Good things happen when the ubiquity of lighting meets the ubiquity of Bluetooth. Its interoperability means lighting networks can have multiple suppliers, control devices and even connectivity protocols, ensuring customers have a future proof platform. Learn how Bluetooth is helping achieve this level of interoperability.
Larger estates have a unique range of problems that can be addressed through the use of connected emergency lighting solutions. We will look at current solutions and how emergency lighting reporting and management will evolve to reflect developments in technology.
