This presentation explores sustainability initiatives at the iLight Marina Bay Festival held in Singapore late 2010.

1. Vision + Development | Performance Optimisation | Project Management | Content + Communications

2. Festival Sustainability Overview

5. Wait… what happened to night time?

6. Mission:
deliver a high-caliber light art event
inspire Singaporeans
raise awareness on energy and
sustainability relating to light useage
enhance the urban built environment
create positive long-term effects on energy
reduction through quality low energy light
experiences in public space

7. Event Sustainability Principles:
1. Energy reduction from lighting usage.
2. Promote best practise in lighting design and light art for
quality after dark city experience.
3. Promote dark city skies. People in cities require a
connection to the natural environment.

8. Vision: To identify and measure (where possible) significant
environmental, social, economic, and cultural criteria relating
to the light festival event.
Maximise the good stuff.
Minimise the bad stuff.
Communicate what we’re trying to do, and why, to everyone.
Educate and advocate behaviour change.

9. Festival by numbers:
25 art pieces
Created by 35 artists
and collaborators
From 10 countries
Approximately 17
different types of events
Estimated 200-250k pax
additional attendance
3 week run-time
11 core sustainability
initiatives
Many players

10. Four examples of sustainability initiatives:
Switch-Off, Turn Up Campaign
Biofuel powered LED art pieces
Public education initiatives
Cohesive planning, reporting, and comms

11. The idea of sustainability:
It’s not just about ‘green’
It’s not just about our environment
It’s about our social dynamics, our culture, our
economy, and how our environment interrelate.

12. The full details, including plan and
forthcoming report (mid-end Nov 2010):
www.ilightmarinabay.sg/sustainability

13. Tomorrow doesn’t have to be another yesterday.

14. Thanks for your attention. We’ve been…
Chris Tobias, Lead Strategist
E: chris@forward.net.nz
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