1. Providing Illumination In New
Ways

2. Current Lighting Design
• Pole Mounted
• Sconce (Wall Mounted)
• Ballard
• A box the gives off light
– Based off old, inefficient technology

3. LED
• The “New” Technology
• Is The New Form Factor Being Utilized to it’s
fullest potential?
• “Innovative design always develops in tandem
with innovative technology”
– Dieter Rams

4. Potential of LED
• Completely new form factors
– Diversity
– Tiny point of light
• Cheaper
– Energy
– Cost
– Maintenance

5. Problems With LED
• Heat
– Need for lots of thermal dissipation
– Limiting the size of the fixture
• Glare
– The same amount of light in a smaller form factor

6. Glare
• Harsh light
– Hard to look at, harsh shadows
• Concentrating light at one source
– Pole lighting
• How do we soften the light?
– Spread it out
– More sources
– Reflectors/Diffusers

7. How do we limit and reduce Glare
• Spread the light out
– More poles?
– Hanging Line Systems
– Ideal: perfectly uniform light levels
• More sources
– Vary the type of light
• Change the tone of the light
– Diffusers/Reflectors
• Reduction of the required light levels

8. Next Generation Luminaries
• Responsive Systems (system design)
– Systems that can read the environment and can
adjust dynamically
– Self adjusting light levels
– Systems that can talk to each other
– Emergency Systems
– Systems that can adjust to the individual
• New Materials

9. Lights Without The Pole
• Making a lighting system that can’t be seen
– You can only see the light
– Designing “invisible” fixtures
• Systems that integrate into existing
infrastructure
• Modular systems
• OLED
– Flexible light sources
• Drone lighting systems

10. Natural Considerations
• Integration with nature
• Fixtures that allow the integration of Nature
• Solar/Wind Power
• Thermal Power
– Recycling thermal energy from the fixture
• Bioluminescence
• Biomimetic Considerations

11. The Potential of Bioluminescence
• Biological systems that feed off of our waste
and provide us light
– A parking garage light that makes the air better
while providing a warm green glow
• Self sustaining and self powered systems
• Target Pollution Control
• Light Graffiti/Eco Art
• Free Form Lighting Design
• Genetically engineered light trees