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Mr Xiao-song Hong, Vice President of NVC, is also a Senior Lighting Designer, Deputy Director of the LED Professional Committee of Guangdong Lighting Association, Top-notch Talent from Huizhou City and Adjunct Professor of Huizhou University.
The Global Lighting Association has recently published a roadmap outlining the significance of technological change in the lighting industry and what it holds for the industry's future. In outlining the roadmap, the presentation documents the two highly disruptive developments associated with LEDs and intelligent lighting systems. It also reviews the significance of the discovery of a 3rd photo-receptor in the human eye in providing evidence that light not only enables vision, but also affects performance and feelings of well-being. The challenges confronted by the lighting industry are digitalization, new applications of intelligent lighting systems and the increasing demand for buildings supporting human health, well-being and productivity. Hence the value of lighting is moving from energy efficiency to the wider spectrum of quality of life and improved well-being. The presentation argues that this transition requires new paradigms for all lighting industry stakeholders, including the industry itself, customers and users. It is particularly so for governments and regulators who need to view the capabilities and benefits of lighting within this wider context.
Bryan Douglas is Secretary General of the Global Lighting Association, and chairs the GLA’s Environment Committee. The GLA is a grouping of peak national and regional lighting associations representing over 5,000 lighting manufacturers and US$75 billion annual sales. Bryan’s career has centred on industry associations. He was the inaugural CEO of Lighting Council Australia, a position he held for nine years. He has represented a diverse range of other industries in Australia including electrical and electronic manufacturing, defence electronics, consumer electronics and information technology. Bryan has an honours degree in history from the Australian National University and has studied at the Beijing Languages institute and Nanjing University.
Wireless networks in buildings suffer from congestion, interference, security and safety concerns, restricted propagation and poor in-door location accuracy. The Internet of Radio-Light (IoRL) project develops a safer, more secure, customizable and intelligent VLC and mmWave building network that reliably delivers increased throughput (greater than 10Gbps) from access points pervasively located within buildings based on comercial LEDs, whilst minimizing interference and harmful EM exposure and providing location accuracy of less than 10 cm. It thereby shows how to solve the problem of broadband wireless access in buildings and promotes the establishment of a global standard in ITU
Dr. Yue Zhang is the Assistant Professor and doctoral supervisor at University of Leicester, UK. He is also IEEE Senior faculty member and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. He received his Bachelor and Master degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2001 and 2004 respectively. He got his Ph.D from Brunel University London and joined Microwave Measurement Division of Anritsu (a British company) as a signal processing engineer. In 2010, he began to work as an Associate Professor and the head of the Advanced Signal Processing Research Group at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. He joined Leicester University as an assistant professor in 2017, and his research fields include RF design, signal processing, artificial intelligence and 5G communication systems. He has chaired Internet of Radio Light, an EU Horizon 2020 5GPPP project, joined EU 5GPPP Standards Committee, and won the Engineer Award of British Royal Academy of Engineering. He holds one British patent and published over 50 articles collected by SCI / EI.
The era of 5G is arriving. Where will the booming NB-IoT technology be positioned in the 5G era? Will it be replaced? The 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) has standardized NB-IoT technology two years ago; How was the development of NB-IoT technology and its application to the lighting industry? All of the above can be answered in this session.
Smart city solutions are becoming part of our everyday life soon. Our cities will face big changes in living habits and this effects on how we design our urban areas and lighting. Lighting grid will be much more than just for providing light and this creates new challenges in design process. What challenges are we facing today and how to overcome them? LUCI (Lighting Urban Community International) is a unique international network bringing together cities and lighting professionals engaged in using light as a major tool for sustainable urban development. Together in LUCI network cities can learn from each other and share knowledge. And by doing so, we will all understand the bigger picture of what future will be.
Elisa Hillgen is a Lighting Designer and City of Light Coordinator for the City of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has over ten years of experience in different fields of lighting. Her job as a lighting coordinator is to handle dark time cityscape by organizing design projects and maintenance for urban lighting in Jyväskylä.
The world is getting smarter, and lighting plays an active role in the transition period. What are the implications for us? Imagine a world where we can tap the potentials of light to improve peoples’ lives in various areas. Imagine we can enable people all over the world to see, communicate, travel and live better. Let’s see how “a city of the future” will look like.
Diana joins OSRAM as Head of APAC Product Portfolio, Lighting Solutions and focuses on APAC lighting control system and product marketing direction, product proposition and product plan. Experienced in global/APAC/China's lighting system, product marketing, application segment marketing for innovation and lighting application design. Books collaboration; China office lighting trend research; Office lighting, Shop lighting and High efficiency lighting system guideline
Commercial lighting provides a natural grid for connectivity. Add Bluetooth® mesh networking into the mix and retailers will have the potential to offer in-store navigation and customized promotions. Hospitals will be able to track patients and expensive equipment. Factory floors will be able to connect machines and perform automated monitoring and maintenance. And businesses will have the power to intelligently control lighting, temperature and air conditioning and to monitor occupancy and security. Sensors can be installed in all corners of the building and, thanks to the power efficiency of Bluetooth mesh networking, run off small batteries for many years, allowing the capture of valuable data. With unmatched ubiquity, reliability and interoperability, only Bluetooth mesh networking can transform smart lighting into a platform. This forum, gathering representatives of Bluetooth SIG’s members in Smart Lighting industry, explores Bluetooth and its mesh networking will make the biggest initial impact in the commercial and industrial space by enabling smart lighting as a platform.
Kai Ren is currently the Developer Relation Manager for the APAC region at the Bluetooth SIG. He has more than 9 years of experience in design and development of wireless sensor networks, specializing in short range, low power wireless technology. His goal at the Bluetooth SIG is to build out Bluetooth’s developer program in the APAC region, helping developers bring innovative applications and products to market. Prior to joining the SIG, he served as a senior engineer at Honeywell in research and development of wireless sensor networks for industrial products. For Honeywell, Kai focused on developing plant safety and industrial wireless networks for gas detection and protection systems. Kai enjoys badminton and swimming, and currently lives in Shanghai with his wife and child.
Lighting is such a common part of our lives that we hardly give a second thought when we flip on a switch as we enter a room. Just like the Internet, today we take it for granted that lighting infrastructure is in place. Perhaps in no other segment of the Internet of Things is lighting as critical to the proliferation of new devices, services and value for consumers. Lighting integrates IoT technologies, opening up new opportunities for services and innovation to enrich our lives. The increasing deployments of connected lighting devices gives consumers an easy first experience with smart home devices, lowers the barriers to adoption of wider services, and creates an essential framework for the IoT to reach its maximum value. As this framework grows, we have learned that it is critical to agree on a common language which connects devices to each other in smart home ecosystems and to the cloud, ultimately enriching the customer’s daily life.
Tobin J.M. Richardson serves as President and CEO of the Zigbee Alliance, leading the alliance’s efforts to develop and promote world-leading open, global standards for the Internet of Things. In this role, he works closely with worldwide brands and market-changing innovators to steer worldwide IoT agendas with industry leading consumer electronics, industrial and commercial companies. Tobin has more than two decades of experience in executive leadership, strategy and development for technology firms and organizations. His experience spans large-scale technology implementations, new service and product rollouts, and transformational change in Fortune 500 companies and world-leading firms. He currently serves in a number of industry leadership roles, including Co-Chair of NAESB’s Energy Usage Information standard committee. He holds a Master’s degree from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Davis.
Mr. Huang is a seasoned business executive with 20 years of marketing experience in various roles from component level products to enterprise solutions to consumer products. He is currently serving as the Director of Wi-Fi Alliance Greater China Region based in Beijing. Jerry was the Founder and General Manager of the Great Pacific Marketing, Inc. in Silicon Valley, California, focusing on assisting companies with establishing a business presence in China and other regions in Asia. Mr. Huang has held various executive positions in worldwide enterprises such as Acer, Bell Microproducts, Everdream Corporation and several startups in his career. His expertise is building teams from the early phase and producing a successful track record of results through solid growth.
Lighting is leading the way into the future of conected devices. Connected lighting is one of the most popular devices in the home. In commercial buildings, lighting is seen as the backbone of future building systems featuring building controls, lighting and a myriad of sensors. Lighting manufacturers are looking to reduce the number of protocols they are required to support, but the market has not converged on a particular technology. How can the lighting manufacturers protect their development investment in these connectivity options? What is it going to take for widespread adoption of connected lighting and how soon will we see this occur? What are the primary limitations and what technology has the edge? Existing connected lighting is using Zigbee, ZWave, Thread, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and proprietary technologies. We can compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of each of these and discuss which are being used most in different markets.
Skip is the Vice President of Software at Silicon Labs. He is responsible for managing the company’s software and quality assurance teams, for both MCU and wireless software and tools. This includes the range of wireless stacks from proprietary through ZigBee, Thread and Bluetooth. Previously, Skip was the Vice President of Engineering and Technology at Ember before its acquisition by Silicon Labs in 2012. Prior to Silicon Labs and Ember, Skip held a variety of program management and engineering management roles focusing on high-quality product development. Skip has been involved with ZigBee technology since 2004 and is a member of the ZigBee Board of Directors, and the Chair of the ZigBee Technical Committee. Skip is on the Board of Directors of Thread and also the Thread Vice President of Technology. Skip has been heavily involved in the development of the ZigBee PRO stack, ZigBee Home Automation profile, and the ZigBee Smart Energy profiles as well as the Thread stack. Skip graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology and spent five years in the US Navy Nuclear Program.
Topics like how to add sensors to lighting infrastructures and how to do smart lighting have been widely discussed throughout the day, but it is a question how to make light intelligently adapt to different users. This session, we will discuss how to make smart lighting happen.
Mr. Guan is the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft (China) Co Ltd. His main area of work includes IoTs, AI, cloud computing and integration of industry and innovation. He has initiated and led the intelligent upgrading of retail, pan-industry, agriculture and community for Microsoft and its partners. Mr. Guan is the expert committee member of Guangdong IoTs Association, Shanghai IoTs Open Lab and China Wearable Innovation and Strategic Alliance, as well as the visiting lecturer of the Graduate School of Harbin Institute of Technology and South China Normal University. He wrote a book on cloud computing and spoke at TEDx on smart city.
Gunnar joined Osram in 2002, as Automotive Product Marketing Manager, and then Head of marketing for Automotive Aftermarket, he was promoted as Director Sales marketing, and took charge of the Central Europe Automotive Aftermarket business. In 2012, Gunnar took charge of the Specialty Lighting business in Latin America, Middle East & Africa as Senior Director & regional head. In 2014, with his multinational management experience and familiarity of lighting business, Gunnar came to China as Specialty Lighting APAC CEO. In August of 2017, Gunnar was assigned as Osram China President & CEO, to set up the China strategy and drive the business.
In this talk, I will firstly review the history of Micro-LEDs in our group since 2006. Then the design and fabrication of high pixel per inch (PPI) Micro-LED displays with red, green, blue and UV colors by monolithically integrating GaN Micro-LEDs and Silicon active matrix backplane will be introduced. A homogeneously integration method of GaN Micro-LEDs on GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) will also be introduced.
Dr. Zhaojun, Liu is a tenure-track assistant professor with associate professor title at Southern University of Science and Technology. He was a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a visiting assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2011, he obtained a doctoral degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is currently engaged in the research of advanced display technology (Micro-LEDs, micro-display, AR / VR, etc.), the third generation of semiconductor electronic devices and optoelectronic device integration (GaN HEMT, LED integration). As one of the earliest researchers specialized in GaN Micro-LED technology, he has a number of world-leading research results. He has won the 2nd prize of "Million Dollar" Entrepreneurship Contest 2011 of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Best Poster Award of International IDMC & 3DSA Conference 2015, the Best Oral Presentation Award of the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong Postgraduates Display Forum 2016, the Distinguished Paper Award of the 2nd National New Model Power Semiconductor Conference in 2016 and SID Distinguished Paper Award 2017. He is now the reviewer for many international high-level academic journals, IEEE member, permanent member of the International Society for Information Display, technical committee member (the only Micro-LED member) of the International Display Society, Beijing Branch, public resource review expert in Guangdong Province and Science and technology experts for Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee. Dr. Liu chaired six projects as the project leader and participated in two national and provincial level projects as the major researcher. He published more than 60 papers in international high-level journals and conference collections (including 4 Distinguished Papers). He was invited to speak at international meetings and R&D institutes for more than 30 times. He published one English monograph as the first author and correspondent author and wrote one Chinese monograph as a co-author. He applied for 12 U.S. patents, 7 of which were granted. He also applied for more than 80 Chinese patents, 20 of which were granted. He has worked as organizing committee members of international conferences for 8 times.
Light not only allows people to perceive space, but also plays a critical role for human health. Most artificial lights, such as fluorescent lights and LEDs, exhibit different spectrum from sunlight. It is meaningful to increase attention and awareness with regards to the importance and necessity of light fixtures that offer natural light, and to contemplate the future direction of lighting.
Vincent Wu, is the Vice President Marketing of Seoul Semiconductor. He graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with a master's degree in physics. With14 years of experience in LED industry, he worked as a R&D engineer in Philips and LED application technology specialist and senior marketing manager of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Greater China.
Color is the toughest challenge in SSL. A lot of confusion reigns on this topic. The CRI is a well-known example of a fidelity metric, howewver it has a number of problematic issues. IES TM-30-15 is a new system of several related measures and graphics that can be used together to effectively evaluate and communicate a light source’s color rendering properties. The presentation brief the weakness of CRI method and how we benifit from TM-30-15.
In 2007, graduated from Chu Kochen Honors College of Zhejiang University. Major in Physics. From 2007 to 2018, 11 years experience in testing and certification of lighting industry. In 2011, visited LTL lab in US Alentown, and Zhaga thermal test in RTP, to learn photometric testing.
Successful story sharing of Dow optical moldable silicones; Silicone material characteristic introduction; New generation optical moldable silicones for long light path optics; Dow total solution for LED module.
Qing Shi Joined Dow Chemical at Shanghai in 2010, after got his Ph.D on Chemical Engineering & Technology. As a research scientist, Qing Shi developed different products include membrane, film, battery, etc. His expertise focus on polymer processing, process design & development, and trouble-shooting. After Dow Corning was 100% acquired by Dow Chemical, Qing Shi assumed the China TS&D manager role for the Silicone Elastomer from 2018.
OLED technology has been applied in display and revenues reached a record of $23.2 billion in 2017. OELDs is not being used for display but also lighting. Recently, performance of OLED lighting has improved and the cost has lowered that enables OLED to become commercialised. The design of OLED products and the quality of light change dramatically. UMAGE has always supported and dedicated to the R&D as well as the promotion of OLED since 2011. This talk will examine the latest achievement and the development of OLED being used in lighting. It will discuss the merits of OLED panel features that make OLED become more popular including form factor, flexibility and transparency. Cost will be examine and it will show the reason why OLED is moving forward to become commercialised in a couple of years. This project is supported by OLED Lighting Industry-University Alliance, hosted by Professor Jwo-Huei Jou of National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
CF Sung is the founder and general manager of Ultimate Image Corporation(UMAGE), that is a leading OLED lighting company in Taiwan. His research and development has focused on OLED device design, OLED process technology and the construction of OLED mass production line. He has published over 7 OLED research papers and holds over 90 OLED patents. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He was a Senior Manager at AU Optronics, where he leaded the team to accomplish the mass production of world-first AMOLED for mobile-phone application from 2000 to 2006, and a Director of Chin Business Unit at AU Optronics Suzhou from 2009 to 2011.
Plastic AMOLED is currently used for high-end smart phone displays such as iPhone X and recent Galaxy 9. I will explain the structural difference between rigid AMOLED and plastic AMOLED. The manufacturing processes for these OLEDs will be also explained such as TFT backplane, OLED and encapsulation processes. Key technologies for the plastic AMOLEDs such as TFT backplane on PI substrate, OLED patterning with show mask, thin film encapsulation and detach of OLED from carrier glass will be added in my presentation. OELD market for flexible display and future prospect for the emerging technology and applications will be added at the end.
Jin Jang is a Professor at Department of Information Display of Kyung Hee University. His current research programs are in oxide and LTPS TFTs for displays, TFT circuits and TFT application to sensors, QLED and flexible AMOLED. He is the author or co-author of over 900 technical publications of which over 570 are in SCI Journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Energy Environmental Science, APL, and IEEE EDL. He is currently a Director of ADRC and had served as Program Chair of SID Symposium 2007 and General Chair of SID Display Week in 2009 and General Chair of IMID 2012, 2013. He was awarded George Smith Award from IEEE in 2012, Slotto Owaki Prize from SID in 2015 and Ho-Am Award in 2017
In 2016, Nobel Physics Prize winner Professor Shuji Nakamura said that laser lighting would replace LED as the next-generation semiconductor lighting technology. In 2017, Hisense introduced the new generation of laser televisions. As facial recognition technology is adopted in Apple i-phone X, 3D sensing technology has become the focus of attention, especially the surface-emitting laser VCSEL technology. Looking into the future, laser technology will be applied in every aspect of our lives. This lecture will focus on the development of laser technology and laser lighting, especially whether it will replace LED in lighting and display application, as well as the highlights of future application of laser in various fields. This lecture will give you a comprehensive understanding of laser technology and laser lighting, which is very helpful to those who intend to make investment in laser technology.
Mr. Jurgen Yeh has over 20 years of experience in LED and LD sectors. He pursued overseas studies in Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan and returned to his motherland after graduation. His main research areas are GaN and GaAs materials, especially the development and mass production of LED chips and encapsulation, the development and commercialization of UV-A UV-C chips, flip chip design and commercialization, technology development and application trends of laser diodes and VCSEL. Mr. Yeh has an international vision and watches closely global trends in new materials and technologies. Mr. Yeh currently serves as an off-campus professor and supervisor for postgraduates at the Material Science Institute of South China University of Technology. Mr. Yeh has trained over one hundred LED and optoelectronic talents in China who have become the mainstay of LED and optoelectronics industries. Mr. Yeh has also published a number of articles that have had major impacts on the LED and optoelectronic semiconductor industries, contributing to the development of high-tech industries.
Professor Tang’s scope of research is design methodology. He advocates "Research Through Design" and innovation through knowledge integration. Professor Tang once worked for Beijing Industrial Design Center and Shenzhen Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. as a designer. He began his doctoral studies in design methodology supervised by Professor Guanzhong Liu in 2001and continued with post-doctoral research after obtaining a doctoral degree. Since 2006 he has worked as a university teacher and published dozens of papers and three books. He also chaired two research projects of the Ministry of Education and Tsinghua University. Sponsored by German Chancellor Scholarship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he went to Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in 2007. He engaged himself in "prototype innovation" design after returning to China and was granted a number of IPs including two invention patents, six utility models and several industrial design patents. He received many awards and his design works were used in the Great Hall of the People and the National Sports Center. He has chaired major state-level projects such as user-friendly design in national oceanographic research ship. He is now the Director of the Lighting Product Prototype Innovation Institute, Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University.
In the context of transformation of lighting fixture design, what are the roles of light? Focusing on the goals of spatial light environment, the various roles of light are explored: aesthetic roles with aesthetic value, functional roles as physiological counterparts, and a rapidly changing new horizon inspired by technology.
Professor Hong Lin has been engaged in the teaching and research of the art of lighting and lighting design. She has been studying on how to combine environmental factors and art design in her teaching of design theory and themed design courses to undergraduate and graduate student majoring in architecture, environmental design, landscape art design and related disciplines. In recent years, she has mentored students in various competitions who have won such awards as China Lighting Design Student Contest Award, China Environmental Art Graduates Award, Spanish Lamp Award, and the 8th and 9th China-Japan-Korea Lighting Conference Best Paper Award. Professor Lin actively explores the application of art of lighting, the integration of lighting and urban and architectural environmental design, and urban landscape lighting research. She has designed a number of projects including urban nightscape planning, waterfront landscape lighting, lighting in culture and innovation parks, art museums, office buildings, commercial complex, and star hotels, lighting labs building, and artistic creation for the public. Her works are widely appreciated by the property owners, peers and citizens. Professor Lin is also the reviewer of design plans for the main venue of Shenzhen Universiade, the central area of Hangzhou Olympic City, Changsha Meixi Lake Cultural Center, the Pearl River Landscape Lighting project in Guangzhou, Zhongshan Ancient Town Lighting Festival and Guangzhou Lighting Festival. She was invited to attend and speak at many international conferences such as Asian Lighting Forum 2015, International Association of Lighting Designers Forums, Education Forum of China Illuminating Engineering Society 2016, Hangzhou International Lighting Forum 2017, and China Interior Lighting Forum 2017.
1. The light of enlightenment Who are you? Where are you from? Where are you going? 2. The light of life Everything is about energy conversion. It never stops. 3. The Light of Physics It all starts from being seen, only if it can be seen, from the past to the present, and into the future. What can be seen can be thought of, and can be done. This is the underlying cause. 4 The light of Science and technology A flash of inspiration, a stroke of serendipity, innovation in technology never stops, bringing both positive and negative impacts. 5. The light of humanity Shaped by environment, people create art and civilization, including the art and civilization of light. 6. The light of art Light and shadows are beauties of life, dancing with the dust and flowing with the time. 7. The light of design For whom we design? How do we design? How to evaluate our design? Harmony without uniformity, changes for the constant. The light of design is the systematic design and evaluation of industrial design, with sustainability that tailored to different situations.
Professor Yu graduated from Design Department, Wuxi Institute of Light Industry. Once a designer for a manufacturing company for years, he has served as a university teacher of design discipline for 20 years. Professor Yu chaired several projects including “Ergonomics Lab” funded by the state government Philosophy and Social Science Project funded by Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education and Graduate Research and Innovation Project of Jiangsu Province. He also participated a number of projects such as Humanities and Social Sciences Project funded by Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Innovation Service Organization Project funded by Jiangsu Science and Technology Department, China-Sweden Cross-Cultural Research Cooperation Project, and Cross-Strait Traditional and Modern Design for Sustainability Projects Professor Yu has cooperated with a number of companies including GE Medical Equipment Company, TCL, NobleLift Corporation, Midea Little Swan Company and Anfang Group. He has provided them with design research, consulting service and training in such areas as product development, brand management and service design.
With the growth of technical invention and with a never ending satisfaction of the market more and more ideas are born in the product industry including the lighting sector. The focus for new designs are based on smart technology and innovative materials with the goal of a high profit margin. The users demands and needs are not or just partly involved in the development process of new designs. The outcome is a market filled with visual and physical difficult to understand products which can increase easily the frustration of the user. In my eyes “simple and deliberate” are the two keywords for every development process of a product to satisfy user and business. Through the creation of a product illuminated in every angle, a stronger relationship between product and user will occur which brings long-time satisfaction to the user.
Coming from a background in Interior Design, educated as Diplom-Ingenieur (FH) in Germany, Andrea Bettina Müller graduated from her Master in Industrial Design in summer 2016 at Lund University in Sweden. Since then she's been living in Malmö, Sweden and working in a design studio in Copenhagen, Denmark. In her 12 years of education and work experience, Andrea won two educational scholarships and several design prices which also included the “Best of best” Red Dot Design Award 2017 for one of her own designs. Since autumn 2016, Andrea is employed in a small design studio for furniture and accessories in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her responsibility reaches from supervising the company's design portfolio to being head of product development. The combination of product design and product development in her daily work life gives her the unique possibility to steer the design process with a view from production side. In her eyes, this combined knowledge leads to an efficient design process and has a strong valuable foundation for the final design of the product. The fact that design can help increase peoples' quality of life is an everyday motivation and satisfaction to her, which makes her creative energy grow daily. In her work process, she integrates the entire spatial context, creating a holistic perspective to her design. The formal language she uses stresses functionality with simple lines while still maintaining a human touch and authenticity in choice of materials. Throughout she keeps a constant focus on the production process. Her attention to detail creates products illuminated in an every angle to enhance the user experience. She enjoys exploring different materials, shapes and proportion to achieve a balance which supports the aesthetic of this philosophy in timeless products. Summarised, simple and deliberate are her keyword for a successful product which is lighted in every angle to satisfy user and business.
Guto Requena will present his studio’s research about concepts, technologies and possible uses for Interactive Architecture and Media Facades. This brand new hybrid spaces (mixing analogic and digital) could be a democratic way to exhibit data visualization on the surface of the cities. What are the risks and problems we should avoid? How to maximize LED light and the use of sensors? How this new technologies could help empowering communities, stimulating empathy and the collective?
Estudio Guto Requena reflects about memory, digital culture and poetic narratives in all design scales. Guto, 36 years old, was born in Sorocaba, countryside of São Paulo State. He graduated as an Architect and Urban Planner in 2003 at USP - Uni- versity of São Paulo. For nine years, he was a researcher at NOMADS.USP – Center for Interactive Living Studies in the University of São Paulo. In 2007 he got his Master’s degree at the same University with the dissertation, “Hybrid Habitation: Interactivity and Experience in the Cyberculture Era”. In 2008, Guto opened his own design practice, Estudio Guto Requena and has won awards both in Brazil and internationally. Guto had lectured and exhibited in several cities such as New York, Milan, Istanbul, Dubai, Mexico City, Moscow, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok, Athens, Berlin, Miami, Capetown, Santiago, Paris, Beijing and London. He was a professor at Panamericana – School of Arts and Design and at IED – Istituto Europeo di Design – for both graduate and PHD levels. Guto had lectured on 70 workshops all over the country, and in 2010 received the “Young Bra- zilian Awards” as recognition. In 2012 Guto was chosen by Google to develop the project for their brazilian headquarters. In 2013 Walmart selected him to design their headquarter. In 2014 he won the international award “Building of the Year” from Archdaily with this project under “Interior Architecture” Category. Since 2012 Guto has a column at newspaper Folha de São Paulo, major Brazilian newspaper, writing about design, architecture and urbanism and also collaborates writing for many magazines. In 2011 Guto created, wrote and hosted the TV show “Nos Trinques”, for Brazilian TV Globo channel GNT and developed design web se- ries for the same channel.
From the creative process to the exportation stage, countless of details make an interactive artwork a true success story. Light and technology are now combined to showcase public spaces in a whole new display. Organizations and communities around the world seek immersive experiences that change their surrounding for a specific moment of time. Let ATOMIC3’s artistic co-director dive in about the challenges and opportunities of public spaces and how light has been developed to face today’s demand. Light is now a medium that creative minds can play with in unexpected ways. With a strong theatrical background, ATOMIC3 has been creating immersive experiences for the past decade, aiming to transform the public space to reach out to people in their daily lives. Using light as the main tool for every project, they seek new ways to tell stories and spark the imagination, plunging visitors into the heart of the story. The world is our playground, placemaking is the new trend in public space and the international market for light & interactive installations is developing at the speed of light! Creos’ expertise is all about connecting and coordinating all the stakeholders together to bring light and magic all around the world. Join us so we can dream together!
Alexandre is a young entrepreneur and founding member of Creos. His curiosity and ingenuity ensures the company is prospering and making inroads across the world. As the Director of Business Development, his innate understanding of sales has driven unexpected growth at the company in its less than three years of existence. He firmly believes that compassion and problem-solving are what create lasting relationships. He is quickly becoming the company’s spokesperson, allowing him to use his platform to share his contagious passion for Creos. Alexandre studied at McGill University where he strengthened his organizational knowledge, learning from well-known professionals from around the world. This is what motivated him to join the Desjardins board of directors as a Young Intern Officer. During his long career in competitive hockey, Alexandre developed perseverance and an appetite for winning, realizing that only tightly-knit teams can accomplish great things.That’s why he is a highly-valued team player at Creos.
Multimedia Installations / Architectural Lighting / Performing Arts With over twelve years of experience in the performing arts, director Félix Dagenais and lighting designer Louis-Xavier Gagnon-Lebrun founded ATOMIC3 to push their artistic development beyond the walls of the theatre, inventing new ways to tell stories and spark the imagination. ATOMIC3 is a multimedia studio that brings together artists and designers from all backgrounds, to create unique immersive experiences where light, video, music, architecture, and new technologies plunge visitors into the heart of the story, and the heart of the work. Whether interactive or contemplative, ATOMIC3's creations transform the public space to reach out to people in their daily lives. The works invite them to open up to others, work together, and see the world and their environment with new eyes. The founders' rich and diverse performing arts experience informs their approach, bringing original narrative and poetic dimensions to their work. Since 2011, ATOMIC3 has created many interactive light installations, including: Nuée de verre in the new international jetty at Montréal-Trudeau Airport, L’Îlot de chaleur presented during the Montreal Highlights Festival in 2016 as well as in Detroit, USA last winter, Iceberg presented on the Place de la Monnaie in Brussels in 2014 and in Montreal on the Place des Festivals in the winter of 2013, Éclats de verre presented in Emilie-Gamelin Park in the winter of 2012, and Maestro, an interactive and musical installation that has been bringing the fountains of the Place des Festivals to life in downtown Montreal every spring since 2015. ATOMIC3 also designed the set and lighting, and directed Champions, an impressive outdoor show presented in the fall of 2015 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the International Olympic Committee being based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The studio also contributed to the 350th anniversary celebrations for the Séminaire de Québec by completing the lighting design for the multimedia show Lumières in the summer of 2013. With celebrations for Montreal's 375th anniversary in 2017, the ATOMIC3 team worked on several exciting projects, including: four permanent light based public artworks that illuminate Villeray–St-Michel-Parc-Extension neighbourhood; l’Esprit des Lieux, a light and sound installation at the Montreal Botanical Garden; and the illumination of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge in collaboration with the Moment Factory studio.
Could buildings know us, talk to us and even care about us? Philip Beesley explores our future environments by creating test-beds for ground-breaking research that combine rapidly-emerging new technologies into a vision of responsive, breathing, sentient architecture. Artificial intelligence and synthetic biology are integrated within innovative 3d-printed responsive lights that follow constantly-changing patterns responding to their occupants. Arrays of sensors and mechanisms within the structure respond to people exploring the environment while innovative physical scaffolds combine mechanisms, sound, light, and filtering systems. Artificial intelligence in buildings can create new kinds of conversations between people and surrounding spaces. Within the scaffolds, new kinds of powerful computing are being tested by distributing dense mesh-works of tiny interlinked microprocessors that act in networks, much like the meshed neurons of our brains. Custom lights are integrated within an experimental curved mesh-work truss system. Overlapping strands of material balance each other within doubly-curved conical stem-shaped forms, creating strong inner and outer shells much in the same way that natural bone structures are formed. Similar to natural cycles of growth, new kinds of buildings could repair and renew themselves. The liquid-filled glass vessels within the 3d-printed lighting contain prototype cells that slowly grow and renew their delicate membranes. With more development these vessels could make artificial skins for buildings. Sound is generated by electronic synthesis, organized in a shifting mesh-work of intelligent presence. Patterns of light and vibration stimulate growth in the protocells. The interlinked microprocessors use a curiosity based learning algorithm that reacts and constantly explores new behaviour. This sentient architecture can create conversations by testing and experimenting with new patterns of interaction.
Philip Beesley is a multidisciplinary artist and architect who leads the Living Architecture Systems group, an international group of researchers and creators working on next-generation interactive environments. His Waterloo Architecture research includes experimental architecture and fabrics, machining and instrument making, and mechatronics engineering. Collaborating with LAS artists, scientists, and engineers has led to a diverse array of projects, from haute couture collections to complex electronic systems that can sense, feel, react and learn. Beesley’s work has been exhibited worldwide. His work was selected to represent Canada at the 2010 Venice Biennale for Architecture. He has authored and edited sixteen books. His work has been featured in publications including MIT’s Artifical Life, Vogue, WIRED, and a series of TED talks. He has received distinctions including the Prix de Rome, VIDA 11.0, FEIDAD, Azure AZ, and Architizer A+.
3D technology is indispensable in recent manufacturing process. It can be said that it is the same also in the field of lighting. This technology can be solved not only for cost reductions and keeping deadlines. Especially, by using 3D printing technology, it is also possible to express the new beauty never before for the next generation. We are thinking that there are three kinds of beauty. First, the beauty of free expression. Using 3D printers, you can design any type of shape. Without being bound by the current manufacturing methods, it is possible to create a shape under free ideas and to further express the play of lights. Second, the beauty of materials. Materials used in 3D printers have been increasing recently. By using various materials, the lighting can depart in new directions. Finally, the beauty of individuality. The consciousness of beauty depends on how individuals perceive. 3D printer can make one-off product that totally matches personal needs. This will be a long-life product that can be used preciously in their lifestyle. As a result, it contributes to the creation of an ecological society that does not emit rubbish. Also, we can propose new business for the digital age. If you use a 3D printer that enables these three beauties, it will be possible to revolutionize the lighting business.
Yukichi Anno is a Japanese designer born in 1972, in Tokyo. He is specialized in product design, industrial design and 3D modeling. His design experience is diverse, for example, electrical appliances, general goods, industrial equipment, toys, furniture and lighting. He aims to design unique and innovative products. In his recent projects, he uses some latest technologies such as 3D printing to try to find new production methods and systems for future consumption. Yukichi Anno graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (MA Industrial Design) in 2001 and established ANNO DESIGN OFFICE in 2010.
Faberhama will share the results of Dual Land (2015), a collaborative project that aims to encourage the deployment of elements of innovation concerning the production of objects, through knowledge exchange and the integration of new opportunities offered by digital technologies with traditional methods. Faberhama designed for the Zuiderzee Museum a variety of lighting objects which reflect technical and emotional possibilities coming from the merging of traditional glassblowing technique with modern metal 3D printing, thereby experimenting new applications of digital fabrication in crafts through a research approach. Selective Laser Melting (SLM) made the creation of structures possible which couldn’t have been produced with traditional production methods. These metal parts have been used to increase the possibilities for experimentation in blowinglass during the realization of the collection. A different perspective on how the use of traditional techniques can enhance the digital ones, by adding a more intimate engagement between the user, the material and the object.
Faberhama is a collaboration between Paola Amabile and Alberto Fabbian, a design duo based in Amsterdam. They have worked together since 2011 sharing a design approach that unites their interest in experimentation with a focus on product sustainability and contemporary issues. Faberhama's creations develop through an investigation on possible interactions between materials and processing techniques, with the aim of creating a contemporary object, celebrating diversity and expressing a balance between innovation and tradition. They grew up in a geographical area rich in craft production, characterized by valuable knowledge related to traditional materials such as ceramic, porcelain and glass. This context gave them the opportunity to develop a strong interest in materials and, at the same time, to strengthen their understanding of craft culture and its values. Faberhama develops both commissioned and self-initiated projects, whether they be objects, situations or food for thought. Faberhama holds workshops and lectures in various institutions and universities, while their designs have been selected by a number of entrepreneurs and curators and exhibited in different international museums and events.
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