Sep 20, 2011 at 11:09 The bootcamp made me very enthusiastic about light and the project.
To start with the project I went outside with my camera and filmed a lot of situations and explored a lot. Now I'm still busy with editing the movie and filming more, but here is a short insight of the explorations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjd0cXi6Lhs
Sep 20, 2011 at 9:16 Download the press release in DOCX or PDF.
Interactive Lighting Opens Cultural Dialogue in Beijing
Intelligent Lighting Institute (Eindhoven) presents light propositions with and for Beijing
China is urbanizing rapidly. It is no longer only the country in which innovative solutions are produced, but also the premier market for their implementation. China is in need of solutions that will enable it to sustain its insatiable desire for growth, while at the same time addressing the challenges of energy, sustainability and health. China is experiencing a revolution in lighting. “This very day, thousands of people are being liberated from darkness as urbanization connects them to the grid and provides them with light to see”, says Rombout Frieling, creative director and program head of ILI OPENLIGHT. “In Beijing, the Intelligent Lighting Institute (ILI) in Eindhoven is showing that new lighting technologies mean much more than just being able to see. We know how light can help us focus, reflect, regulate our biorhythms, improve safety or escape from hectic everyday life.”
The Intelligent Lighting Institute (ILI) in Eindhoven explores insights into the interaction between man and light in many application areas, buildings, the built environment, arts and health. This research institute, led by scientific director Professor Emile Aarts – also Vice President of Philips – is taking responsibility together with industry, government and end-users for innovation in lighting. Within the ILI, in which six departments of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are collaborating, OPENLIGHT is the lab in which creative young designers and researchers from different disciplines are working together to explore and experience propositions to realize and open the scope of light.
OPENLIGHT, the creative lab of the Intelligent Lighting Institute, took up the challenge of exploring and demonstrating how lighting solutions can contribute to tackling some of Beijing’s urgent societal issues. OPENLIGHT initiated a three-week project to team up four of its staff and six postgraduate designers with six design students and three staff members of the renowned Tsinghua University in Beijing. Starting on 12 September, the team spent two days and nights with Beijing’s cleaners, bus drivers and the elderly, revealing some moving insights and social phenomena ranging from ‘裸婚 (‘naked marriage’) to偷得浮生半日闲 (to relax in a crowd). The team will address these issues in sustainable ways by proposing a series of lighting interventions which will be presented as three lighting installations inside the 751 Netherlands Design Pavilion at the Beijing Design Week (28 September – 2 October).
The three interactive lighting experiences developed by OPENLIGHT in Beijing will be presented from 28 September in the Dutch Pavilion at the Beijing Design Week in the city’s 751 district. These experiences will reveal some of the hidden dreams, desires and struggles of Beijing’s citizens, and show how lighting solutions could respond to their needs. Lighting manufacturers and technology partners, application partners from the hospitality, real estate, transportation and leisure industries, as well as architects and urban planners are warmly invited to enter into a discussion about possible further development of the concepts. Rombout Frieling, creative director and program head of OPENLIGHT, will give a presentation on 28 September at 13:30 hours (UTC+8, Beijing time).
The results will also be shown to members of the trade mission of the Dutch DFA (Dutch Design, Fashion and Architecture programme) in cooperation with BNO, CNA, BNI, Premsela, NAI, Design Cooperation Brainport and the city of Eindhoven. The aim of this mission is knowledge exchange, building partnerships and boosting business between the Netherlands (Eindhoven Brainport region) and China, in particular Chinese industry and application partners. The OPENLIGHT program takes these goals a step further by working for better understanding of the situation in China, and by giving young designers and students from both countries a great opportunity for a valuable learning experience and sustainable cooperation.
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For more information:
Mrs. Carina Weijma
Press Liaison for OPENLIGHT
carina.weijma@carwei.com
0086 159 10816043 (from 24 September onwards)
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The presentation of ILI OPENLIGHT in Beijing is a co-production of ILI and Design Cooperation Brainport. Design Cooperation Brainport is a broad collaboration between various design organizations in Brainport which aims to stimulate and connect creative initiatives that strengthen the region’s (inter)national reputation in the field of top technology and design.
Sep 19, 2011 at 23:28 This is the first day of the GLOW module, which aims at creating a light installation blueprint for implementing in the GLOW festival in the coming (freezing) November.
The light installation will be put in front of the HG building in TU/e, which shines effects on the facade of it. The facade contains tons of grids that serve both as mirror and glass. In winter time, the weather should be cold and the trees around should have changed their colour. Concerning this given context, we as a group choose three themes to focus on: sense, nature and pattern.
Ideas are popping up, and first visuals will be presented tomorrow.
Sep 19, 2011 at 20:20 Today we started working on ideas for an interactive light facade for the HG building during the GLOW festival.
We are focusing on making an interactive installation. We want to add a physical object or structure that will serve as input for manipulating the installation, to show off some of the things, we as industrial designers at TU/e can do.
We want to invite people to interact with the installation, which serves to purposes. Movement will keep them warm during the cold november night, and trigger the installation to display a bigger and more aesthetically pleasing output, when more people interact with it. Below are a few pictures of our process, and sketches for a couple of ideas, which we will present tomorrow.
Sep 19, 2011 at 18:56 The BOOTCAMP was a great opportunity for me to get familiar with lighting and other technics.
With all those background knowledge, I started observing what was happening around me. What I found out is that, people has to wait a lot before they can achieve something. For instance, you have to wait for the train and a meeting. In these times, many of us lose focus while time flies.
What I want to dig more are, how people react to lightings while they are waiting, and how can help them make use of the waiting time by lights.
