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FESTIVALS OF LIGHT / DAY.ONE, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
AS CLEAR AS DAY
Light Collective are involved in a novel take on the Festival of Light, using daylight as a source of inspiration for the Day.One festival in Mexico City. Here they explain the concept of the upcoming event.
There are two main reasons why we decided to organise Day.One. Firstly, we love Day- light - its the real thing! Secondly, the world is already full of lighting festivals. They all take place at night and focus on creating spectacle using artificial light! We figured it was time to turn things on their head and do something different. What is the light source in the most amaz- ingly lit spaces you can think of? Natural light. What is the light source in the most inspirational spaces you can think of? Nat- ural light. What light do people like best? Natural light! We want to change the way people think about the use and application of natural light and the biggest opportunity for us to do this is in the promotion and demonstra- tion of its use.
Natural light is the only truly sustaina- ble source of light available to us and we believe that designing with it is a skill that lighting designers should be able to offer. Daylight design is something that should be part of a lighting designer’s skill set and whilst it is for the few, for many others it is a lost art. The first objective of Day.One is to promote daylight and daylight design by lighting professionals and in order to highlight this we have created an event that celebrates natural light and architecture. Throughout history, artists have always rep- resented the sky and the sun in their work, bringing the awesome qualities of natural light down to an appreciable and under- standable scale. We took inspiration from this and Day.One uses daylight and sunlight art to engage our audience and to contrast with the hundreds of artificial lighting festi-
vals taking place each year.
Obviously we couldn’t do it in the UK so Light Collective have formed a partnership with Mexican Lighting Designer Magali Men- dez, Director of Saas Lighting. Day.One is the world’s first natural lighting festival and will take place on the 8th - 11th May 2014 in Mexico City.
The event comprises twelve temporary installations created by artists from all over the world. We can boast contributions from Mexico, Greece, Denmark, Brazil, Italy, UK, France, Korea, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Portugal. We are pleased to an- nounce that our featured artists are Rodrigo Muro, Alexia Gkika and Tristan Haar, Jiyoen Song, Marianna Novaes and Augusto Bastos Ramalhao, James Newton, Johan Gielen, Lara Elbaz, Anne Bureau, Isabel Villar and Federico Favero, Lorena Vyeira, Giovanni Traverso, Monica Zuniga, Diana Garcia and Paul Elhert. The work varies in style and includes a camera obscure piece, coloured glass, mirrors, prisms, shadow and pho- tography.
All of our artists are either practising architectural lighting designers, have a background as a designer or are studying the subject. We believe that they are the people with a unique knowledge of natural light and are giving them an opportunity to share it. We received many more submissions than we imagined which put us in the unexpect- ed position of having to choose which artists we could invite to the actual event. The quantity and quality of submissions help strengthen our belief that there is a space for a festival of daylight.
The event program also includes a manufac- turers’ technology workshop where we are offering sponsors an opportunity to talk to architects and lighting designers about their products. This will include natural light products and artificial lighting products that interface with natural light, control systems and artificial lighting. The discussion about natural lighting includes the opportunity to talk about good lighting in general. There is also a seminar program that includes the featured designers, special guests and local architects. It is an oppor- tunity for architectural lighting designers to talk about the importance of natural light and demonstrate how having daylighting design skills can enable us to take control of the one element of building design that can make a difference to our carbon footprints and make us completely responsible for the light experience within architecture. In addition, there will be a series of work- shops taking place with local school children and in conduction with IESNA, we will also be holding a film night with showings of films from designers, artist and architects. Day.One will also offer an architectural tour to visit buildings in Mexico City with incred- ible daylight designs including the Cineteca Nacional, MUAC, Hesiodo, Camino Real, Capuchinas, Hospital de la luz, Casa Gilardi and Museo Soumaya.
All of the installations and events will take place in and around the Casa Luis Barragan, the private residence of Mexico’s most cel- ebrated architect and a master of natural light and colour with the Barragan Founda- tion supporting Day.One.
www.lightcollective.net
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