Time For A Change In one of the first in-person lighting events in 18 months, LEDFlex welcomed an audience of lighting designers to Aures London to discuss climate change in the lighting industry.
F
or many of us, the last few years
While we are all on our own individual journey
increasing issues surrounding climate
conscious, combined effort would go a long way
have been a real eye opener as to the
change. From the wildfires in Australia
and the Amazon, flooding in Europe, and hurricanes in North America, and of course, the global
pandemic – the need to address a situation that is only getting worse has never been more pressing. In a bid to get the lighting industry talking and
thinking more about its carbon footprint, LEDFlex welcomed some of the community’s best and
brightest to an exclusive event at Aures London, situated in the iconic Leake Street Arches.
With a champagne reception, the occasion was one of the first in-person lighting events since the UK went into lockdown in March 2020, with guests
delighted to have the opportunity to catch up face
to face after 18 months of webinars and Zoom calls. As well as giving guests the chance to meet inperson again, one of the key objectives of the
event was to take a step forward as an industry and initiate a conversation on how the design
community can combat climate change together.
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to reduce our impact on the environment, a towards helping further.
In light of this, LEDFlex invited two guest speakers from the lighting world to provide an insight into their respective practices surrounding lighting
design and climate change that we can learn from and implement.
The first presentation from Kristina Allison, Senior Lighting Designer at Atkins and Co-Chair of the
Education and Membership Committee of the SLL, provided an insight into the circular economy,
and how the lighting industry can move to such a system. Allison has co-authored A Technical Memorandum on Circular Economy: TM66 for
the SLL alongside Past-President of the SLL Bob
Bohannon, and here she delved a little deeper into TM66 and its proposed framework – CEAM, the Circular Economy Assessment Method.
Throughout her presentation, Allison discussed the current, linear model of take-make-waste,
and how this can be changed to a circular model