Parsons: International Year of Light: From the Right to Light to the Right Lights
Friday March 13, 2015
3:00pm–6:00pm followed by a reception
This event will be free of charge and open to the public.
Registration Closed
Location
Parsons The New School For Design
Kellen Auditorium: Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
Contact Nathalie Rozot with any questions
[email protected]
The above image is an example of neighborhoods such Soray in Port-Of-Prince that have no public lighting.
Photograph by Lucie Couet
The premise of this public event hosted by Parsons for the International Year of Light (IYL2015) is that lighting design is not a field known for socially-engaged work, and that the importance of quality lighting in the constructed environment in daytime and after hours is under-recognized.
Speakers will present project initiatives of public interest before debating the role that socially engaged lighting design practices play and how lighting education can support a stronger social culture in practice and discourse in the field of lighting design.
Presentations will include lighting projects in informal settlements in Haiti and in low-income housing environments, and examples of students’ work with underserved communities.
This event is curated by Parsons professor Nathalie Rozot, a longstanding advocate for more social activism in the lighting design professional and educational communities. She is actively involved in several initiatives, and her research and projects on social issues in lighting have been presented and published internationally.
Introduction
Brian McGrath, Dean, School of Constructed Environments, Parsons
Glenn Shrum, Director, MFA in Lighting Design, Parsons
Speakers
Nathalie Rozot, Part-time Associate Professor, Parsons
Francesca Bastianini, Senior Designer, Lumen Architecture
Elettra Bordonaro, Co-Founder, Social Light Movement
Isabelle Corten, President, Concepteurs Lumière Sans Frontières
Ana Baptista, Assistant Professor in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, The New School
Panel discussion moderated by Nathalie Rozot
Speakers’ Biographies
Ana I. Baptista, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, The New School University, is the former Director of the Energy and Environment Program at the Regional Plan Association. Prior to RPA, Baptista was the Director of Environmental Justice for the community based nonprofit Ironbound Community Corporation where she led a wide range of environmental justice, community development and planning and research projects.
Baptista received her Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Public Policy from Rutgers, and she is a member of the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance and the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance.
Francesca Bastianini, Senior Designer, Lumen Architecture, is a practicing lighting designer and an adjunct instructor at the Pratt Institute and Parsons the New School for Design.
She is the recipient of lumen awards from the Illuminating Engineering Society and is a member of IESNYC and IALD. She formerly served on IESNY committees, and now serves on the boards of DLFNY and PhoScope.
Bastianini received a BA in Theatre and Psychology from Smith College, a Masters degree in Psychology and a MFA in Lighting Design from Parsons the New School for Design. She received a Richard Kelly grant for her thesis on lighting solutions for the homeless.
Elettra Bordonaro, Ph.D., Co-Founder of Social Light Movement, founded London-based lighting design studio Light Follows Behaviour after working internationally as a lighting designer for distinguished lighting design companies such as Light Cibles, Speirs+Major, Metis Lighting and Light Bureau. She has taught and lectured at the Universities of Rome, Milan, Turin, and the Rhode Island School of Art and Design.
Bordonaro was trained as an architect and received her Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Architecture in Turin.
Isabelle Corten, President, Concepteur Lumière Sans Frontières, is the founder of Radiance 35, an award-winning lighting design consulting firm located in Liège, Belgium. With a long-standing interest in social urban issues, she is also a founding member of SLM and has served as CLSF’s president since 2012.
Corten received a Diploma (DES) in Urban Planning from Brussels University with an honorary mention for her thesis on public lighting in low income housing, and a Diploma in Architecture from the Institut Supérieur d'Architecture in Brussels. Corten is a member of LUCI and PLDA.
Nathalie Rozot, Part-time Associate Professor, Parsons The New School, is a New York-based practitioner with a long-standing interest in design and research for urban public space. She is the founder of the nonprofit think tank on light PhoScope, the lighting education columnist on for the Illuminating Engineering Society’s publication LD+A, and a senior guest lecturer at Versailles’ Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paysage landscape masters program.
Rozot is the recipient of prestigious grants and awards and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and the Graham Foundation for Architecture. She holds degrees in Biology (DEUG) and in design from Ecole Boulle, and is an educator member of IALD and a member of the IES and CLSF.
International Year of Light
The International Year of Light 2015 (IYL2015) is a cross-disciplinary educational and outreach project that is endorsed by UNESCO with more than 100 partners from over 85 countries. A network of over 30 associations, collectives, universities, events and media from 20 countries, the Lighting-Related Organizations (L-RO) was formed in the context of IYL2015 to represent a broad global professional community of people who work with light and lighting in the built environment, and to promote public recognition for lighting design and education. The network’s official representative, the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), is a formal sponsor of the IYL2015.
Click Here for More Information about UNESCO's International Year of Light
The L-RO organizations will celebrate IYL2015 and disseminate knowledge about lighting design practices by organizing events around three themes:
• Raising awareness for Lighting design
• Supporting the "Right to light"
• Sharing how to be enlightened
