LuxLive Conference Programme 2019

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.

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.

Lighting for health and wellbeing, beyond ‘vision’ is an emerging field of science and technology where full spectrum light sources can play a major role. There is therefore an urgent need to develop metrics beyond traditional photometry and colorimetry (which are derived from 1924 and 1931 standards), says Dr Perez. Photometry and colorimetry are solely focused on the visual aspects of lighting, not considering the non-visual stimulus and potential effects for health and wellbeing. Energy evaluation is particularly critical in this field. The lumen is not appropriate for this purpose, and therefore the lumen/watt is no longer a valid unit, argues Dr Perez, who will discuss new metric proposals.

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.

Advances in intelligent wireless lighting control and connected lighting platforms are changing the lighting game. Lighting control is no longer stand-alone but a key enabler of whole building intelligence. In this session, you’ll hear how specifiers can design these next-generation solutions. There will also be a behind-the-scenes look at the design decisions in a real-world Bluetooth mesh implementation

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.