Boston Lights Exhibit and Conference will be held on 26 OCT at the Westin Waterfront from 10am until 8 pm. We love this bi-annual show because there is so much compacted into one day which makes for a very productive event. Access to the exhibit hall is free and the conference portion is only $30 in advance. All seminars are available for continuing education credits from the American Institute of Architects, the National Council for Interior Design Qualification and the American Society of Landscape Architects.
The line of speakers is first class and we caught up with a few. Your humble editor spoke with Janet Lennox Moyer and she gave me a preview of her talk.
- One of the most exciting aspects of landscape lighting is that landscape is typically ahead of general lighting on the LED adoption curve. Nearly 100% of new landscape jobs are LED.
- Dimming is essential in landscape as designers can now control the exact amount of light on each part of each tree.
- Several OEMs have launched luminaries that offer flexible beam spread without having to change lamps or lenses. This is very cool!
- Some designers of new LED luminaires seem to have forgotten about glare. The bigger issue is that glare lessens the sense of safety.
- LED in landscape lighting still has huge depreciation. The speaker will discuss jobs that have been changed out after a few years because of this drop in lumens.
- There is a significant difference in beam spreads between Halogen and LED. Understanding these new beam spreads is crucial in landscape lighting, thus the need for professional designers.
In addition, I spoke with Amahl Hazelton, a Urban Strategist & Producer for Moment Factory. His talk will focus on the relationship between light and story telling in an urban scale. His company has a background that grew out of show business and entertainment as they focus on high emotion and wow-factor experiences. Moment factory designs projects that can last one night, or a tour, or a festival, and their DNA is in show business, not lighting. They have refined approaches into creating emotion in both temporary and more permanent environments or destinations.
His presentation will focus on beauty and how light enhances the story telling process. He will discuss how to use light with emotion as the fabric of communities.
His jobs go beyond the noble materials of steel, glass, and stone, which typically define our 3 D experience. The speaker adds light as an additional building material to develop different perceptions. The focus is on creating interactive environments where the world becomes a public stage and people can influence and control their urban architectural experience for the first time in human history.
Because the industry has gone from very organic to completely solid state, citizens are now able to master light at the granular level to complexly transform space.
Boston Lights is going to be a great show and we are looking forward to 26 October.