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9th RtN Workshop - An up-to-date approach to Integrative Nightscape Design
Our Lighting Design Workshop, broadly known by its headline “Rethink the Night!”, which has been held in Tsagarada – Mount Pelion in the last week, makes us looking forward to the 10th successful LD workshop under the headline “Rethink the Night!” by the end of 2023.
We are grateful to all our contributors, academic partners and sponsors for their active participation in the development of an ecologically insightful Nightscape Culture and in connecting restrained, yet felicitous, artificial lighting interventions with the Natural Night Light of the Starry Sky.
Once again, luminous accents in the visual field of spectators displayed a luminance, which didn’t exceed the maximum value of 20 cd/sqm, while the prevailing horizontal illuminance level on site fluctuated around the full moon illuminance level of 0.22 lx, thus suggesting the perception aided "Lighting Sufficiency" as the most efficient approach to Energy Saving and to the Preservation of Night Ambience Authenticity.
Participants of the 9th International Lighting Design Workshop, which has been held under the headline “Rethink the Night!” in the last week in Tsagarada - Mount Pelion had the opportunity to do practice not only with simultaneous contrasts but also with successive contrasts in consequence of a sound-directed light flow, pursuing the composition “In the Land of Centaurs” of the poetic song-writer Notis Mavroudis.
Listen to the Light! (s. here)
Άκου να δεις!
The 8th LD Workshop has been dedicated to Light Choreography
The recurrence of Covid-19 has been a new challenge for our workshop, the added value of which rests on the acquisition of skills about the creative application of up-to-date lighting technology. Remotely accessible software allowed participants to control light and sound and attune them to one another, while the image of dynamic lighting was transmitted to the participants over a camera connected to the Zoom platform. The result achieved in the short period of the workshop by an engaged group participants suggests that beauty can emerge by means of remote actions, even at places far beyond our residential location. In this regard our International LD Workshop kept its reach unscathed once again and is looking forward to the next event in 2022.
The 7th LD Workshop has been completed
This year we made the bold decision not to cancel our LD Workshop and to respond to the Covid19-challenge of acting under restrictive conditions. In reward we experienced an unprecedented rise of zeal and devotion among a handful of exquisite participants, which was reflected on the respectively noble quality of laboriously crafted lighting. The night view of the chapel of St. George in Lagonissi has been transformed to a symbol of simplicity & serenity in the expression of faith by means of an inspirational audio-visual ensemble. That all with fewer but well-considered lighting operations.
6th LD Workshop Rethink the Night 2019 completed
The 6th International LD Workshop has been completed with Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Serbia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, India and Australia being represented by respective participants, wholeheartedly devoted to the design of a legendary nightscape marked by olive trees creatively treated with light.
The three subprojects, which have been accomplished in a field of olive trees (in the outskirts of the harbour of Volos) demonstrated the creativity potential of the respective three night-friendly lighting techniques, projections, phosphorescence and creative lighting control, in the hands of ardent workshop participants.
In all three projects the ambient illuminance has been kept below the full moon level according to respective recordings.
Cinematic Presentation of RtN 2018
The cinematic presentation about the last workshop has been released and reflects on how we memorize the workshop nights of 2018 (s. here).
Night Semantics
Our LD workshop is launching a linguistic approach to lighting design to offer its participants a precious opportunity of training in visual semantics of night and of developing literacy of night ambience simulations. A recently published article in the magazine of our media partner LICHT (s. here) elaborates in more detail on this approach.
RtN Workshop Ambassador in Norway
Hilde Sofie Olaisen has been appointed our Ambassador for Norway and will be at the disposal of candidate workshop participants and potential contributors (universities, municipalities, associations and other related institutions interested in night-friendly approaches to lighting design) from Norway.
5th LD Workshop Rethink the Night 2018 completed
Photo credits: Marina Goranova (1),Myrto Skreta-Krikou (4,5), Georgios Paissidis (2,3,6)
The 5th International LD Workshop has been completed with Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Germany, Norway, Lebanon, Mauritius, Korea and USA being represented by respective participants, wholeheartedly devoted to the design of a legendary nightscape.
The three subprojects, which have been accomplished in the surroundings of the unique cultural monument of the church of Virgin Mary in Makrinitsa (outskirts of the harbour of Volos) demonstrated the creativity potential of the respective three night-friendly lighting techniques, projections, phosphorescence and creative lighting control, in the hands of wholeheartedly devoted participants.
In all three projects the ambient illuminance has been kept below the full moon level according to respective recordings.
Measurements & evaluation: Günther Wuchterl
Further documentation and relevant reports will appear soon in the issues of the involved media sponsors and a documentary movie, which will present the course of all creative activities of the workshop will be released in the beginning of 2019 when the venue of the next 6th workshop will have been selected.
5th LD Workshop before us
In consequence of 4 success stories the 5th LD Workshop is before us!
The 4th LD Workshop, in which 15 countries have been represented, has successfully finished. Hong Kong, Thailand and Iran have been this time the represented newcomers among our participants, extending the international range of the workshop to 25 countries, from the first workshop in 2014 until today. The next 5th workshop will take place from the 24th to the 28th September 2018 and is expected to capitalize a solidified educational experience over all past unforgettable years. We are grateful to all participants, sponsors and academic supporters, who have creatively contributed to the distinctive physiognomy of the workshop for the preservation of a genuine nightscape and ready to face new challenges with respect to the continuous development of a night friendly lighting culture. A report about the activities of the 4th workshop has been published in the magazine of our media partner LICHT here.
Our Participants are evolving to Stars
Anuj Gala and Carlijn Timmermans in the archaeological museum of Kea – October 2014
We are proud that two of our former participants (2014) Anuj Gala from India and Carlijn Timmermans from Netherlands, both graduates of the Lighting Design Master Course of the University of Wismar, have been nominated for the Award of the "Best Newcomer" (s. here). We will be glad to welcome them again to the Aegean island of Kea on the occasion of next workshops as experienced contributors.
Moreover, we are delighted about their contribution as speakers on the forthcoming "PLDC 2017", the most eminent international event about the developments of our profession.