Editorial
Secretary Brendan Keely MSLL bkeely@cibse.org SLL Coordinator Juliet Rennie Tel: 020 8675 5211 jrennie@cibse.org Editor Jill Entwistle jillentwistle@yahoo.com Communications committee: Iain Carlile (chairman) MSLL Rob Anderson Jill Entwistle Chris Fordham MSLL Wiebke Friedewald Mark Ingram MSLL Stewart Langdown MSLL Gethyn Williams Linda Salamoun Bruce Weil All contributions are the responsibility of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the society. All contributions are personal, except where attributed to an organisation represented by the author.
Copy date for NL1 2017 is 23 November Published by The Society of Light and Lighting 222 Balham High Road London SW12 9BS www.sll.org.uk ISSN 1461-524X © 2016 The Society of Light and Lighting The Society of Light and Lighting is part of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, 222 Balham High Road, London SW12 9BS. Charity registration no 278104
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We are now in lighting festival season. From Vivid Sydney to London Lumiere, over the past few years the proliferation of city lighting festivals internationally has been extraordinary. On the whole they are a Good Thing, delighting the public, raising awareness of light’s possibilities, and crucially boosting local trade and municipal coffers. But there is perhaps a danger of culture as commodity. If you can’t afford to commission a starchitect to give you a suitably controversial but irresistible new art gallery, then maybe lots of coloured lights and awesome projections on the town hall will juice up the local economy. Lighting festivals are more meaningful and have greater longevity if they are seen in terms of a wider strategy and infrastructure. Lighting, like puppies, is not just for Christmas. Graham Festenstein has looked at
light from both sides now in this respect, having started LewesLight in his home town last year (see City in a new light, p7). It is an exemplar of what these events can do and what he believes lighting festivals should be about. It is very much centred on education, and that means much more than just basic awareness raising. Not only are local students involved but the event is embedded in the curriculum of some of the local college’s courses. There is also an associated lighting conference which both professionals and public are welcome to attend. There is an agenda to inform people about the environmental impact of lighting, and to consider its effects on the health and wellbeing of people. The event is also not simply grafted on and people are not just parachuted in. It is rooted in the town’s history, and participants have some connection with the place. It helps to ensure that its heritage is literally and metaphorically brought to light, and therefore, hopefully, handed on to future generations (passing the torchere?). The second SLL NoHL, held in York to coincide with that city’s lighting festival, reflected a similar aim by involving local schoolchildren. ‘The society worked with schools around York to create new ways of looking at and experiencing these places and spaces,’ said organiser Dan Lister, ‘I’m sure we inspired some lighting designers of the future.’