The ILP will be a partner at April’s Cities & Lighting Summit being held by the LUCI Association in London.
The ILP will be one of four main partners for the landmark urban lighting event, which is being held from Wednesday 23 April through to Saturday 26 April, at London’s Barbican and Guildhall. The other partners are Illuminated River, Visit Britain, and Women in Lighting.
The deadline for registration for the event has also been extended, to 28 March. Details on how to register for the LUCI summit can be found here. LUCI members also requesting accommodation have until 7 March to register.
Historically known as the LUCI annual general meeting), the Cities & Lighting Summit is now the association’s main annual gathering for the urban lighting community.
The summit this year will focus on three key themes: sustainability, health and wellbeing, and inclusion.
The three days of CPD will include a focus on urban lighting across the City as well as offer an opportunity to visit a range of lighting projects and designs within the Square Mile, or London’s financial district.
It brings together key decision makers from cities around the world to share common challenges and inspire possible solutions while experiencing the host city’s lighting projects at night.
April’s event, which is being co-organised with the City of London Corporation, will include a discussion around the challenges and opportunities associated with urban lighting in the City of London; how lighting can work to build safer, more inclusive public spaces after dark; how lighting can pave the way to more sustainable cities; and how lighting can shape the adaptability, resilience, and transformation of cities, among other topics.
The full programme for the event can be found online at https://www.luciassociation.org/events/luci-cities-lighting-summit/
The City of London has been working hard in recent years to take an innovative and creative approach to CMS, especially as the City has become more of a pedestrian and night economy hub both by day and night, as reported in Lighting Journal last year (‘City living’, April 2024, vol 89 no 4).
Separately, the LUCI Association is backing a project aiming to redefine darkness as a valuable cultural, aesthetic, and ecological resource within urban landscapes.
The Art of Darkness as Cultural Heritage of Urban Landscape project is being funded by Horizon Europe and co-ordinated by the University of Oulu, which is an associated member of LUCI.
The three-year initiative will unite researchers, cities, and creative professionals to explore the aesthetic, cultural, and sustainability potential of darkness in urban landscapes and cultural heritage contexts, LUCI has said.
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