String Theory For the past few months, Light Collective has been hard at work putting together the International Lighting Design Family Tree, with an interactive digital version now available to view online. Here, they tell us more.
F
inally, many months after it was
don’t like you or forgot to put you in, it’s likely that
pegs at Light + Building 2020 (yes - we
we will get a chance to include all 900+ of you in a
supposed to be realised in wool and
must have been completely mad!), we
have created a digital version of the International
Lighting Design Family Tree for you to admire and explore. You can find this version - which uses
some zoomable software so you can move around it - on the ILDFT website.
As you look through it, you can immediately see
how complex it is so hopefully you will therefore appreciate we couldn’t include everyone who submitted data this time around. We needed
to narrow down the list of people we included
(otherwise we would still be drawing…) so created a smaller list of participants. This encompassed
countries with the most lighting design companies and people who had said they would definitely be going to Light + Building in March and had also
submitted their information before a certain date.
So if you aren’t on this version, it’s not because we
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you didn’t fit the above criteria. Hopefully one day, full version…
The designers names are around the outside of
the infographic. The circles represent countries
with each dot representing a separate company. The coloured line from each lighting designer
represents the geographical region the designer
is from and follows their career path from design
company to design company and from country to
country if applicable. You can follow their journey on the drawing.
After we published a series of facts drawn from
the data, we listened to the online feedback and in answer to your questions, here are a couple more
facts. This time we have taken several of the data points and combined them to see if there are any discernible trends. Interestingly the number of
people with an educational background in lighting design is consistent through the ages until you