Rachel and Paul to speak at PLDC in Madrid

We are very pleased to announce that Rachel Burke and I are going to speak at this year’s Professional Lighting Design Conference in Madrid.  Our papers were selected from 230 submissions.

From the conference web site: The conference reflect topics of current interest in the lighting design world and at the same time give insight into the future of the profession and the challenges awaiting every lighting professional. This year PLDC has defined further strategic goals.

>> The overall programme has four main focuses of interest, which in turn provide an overview of current trends and issues that affect lighting designers.

1. Public lighting: new technologies and energy efficiency are opening up whole new markets for lighting designers. The application of LEDs in particular and the competence to use these new light sources effectively is one huge topic. The fourth track – the variable track – at PLDC 2011 is dedicated to this topic.
2. Digitalised light: offers new qualities and challenges. The tools and luminaires currently available on the market can be applied with even more precision than ever, which leaves no room for error. There is no covering up design deficits any longer. The chance to deliver perception-based designs is immense. And digital light can be controlled perfectly – if you know how.
   A further aspect is the digitalization of light: projections and the interplay of fascinating light effects in architecture offers scope for new approaches and design ideas. Such applications require a good grounding in the technology and a disciplined hand on the part of the designer. Media design meets architectural lighting and becomes a serious component – far removed from the image temporary event lighting enjoys.
3. Another focus will be on Hospitality Lighting. What light do we need as humans to feel good? At PLDC we will be taking a new and closer look at hotel lighting of the future.
4. Changes in architectural design tends require the attention and a response from the lighting designer. Energy efficiency and energy-saving are changing the definition of architecture as we know it. Our Trend Forum on Architecture with a panel of some of the most promising and talked about newcomers in the architectural world will provide answers to questions many have not yet dared to ask. Mark Major will be discussing the above with Philippe Rahm, Alexander Rieck and Yasmine Mahmoudieh to gain more insight into their ideas about architectural lighting design now and in the years to come.