The Euroluce International Lighting Forum 2025: Innovation and Multidisciplinary Visions on Light
Join leaders in design and science to explore the future of light with over 20 international experts during the Euroluce 2025 Forum, 10-11 April in Milano
The Euroluce International Lighting Forum 2025: Innovation and Multidisciplinary Visions on Light
In the year of Euroluce, under the title “Light for Life. Light for Spaces”, the Forum will bring together over 20 international speakers between lighting designers, architects, artists, set designers, scientists, biologists, anthropologists, astronomers and psychologists invited to share visions, insights, research and design practices with the aim of stimulating a deeper understanding of the future of lighting with a multidisciplinary perspective. The forum will be hosted in an exceptional space: the Arena The Forest of Space designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.
10 APRIL
Light for Life
Moderated by Ed Stocker, Europe Editor at Large Monocle
INTRODUCTORY GREETINGS
10.15 am: Maria Porro, President of Salone del Mobile.Milano, Carlo Urbinati, President of Assoluce of FederlegnoArredo
MASTERCLASS
10.30 Sunlit: Marjan van Aubel, Solar Designer
11.15 Feeding on light: Stefano Mancuso, Plant Neurobiologist, Director of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology, University of Florence
12.15 Creativity and the Transformative Power of Design: Robert Wilson, Artist Maria Porro, President of Salone del Mobile.Milano
PANEL DISCUSSION
14.00 hours:
- Nicholas Belfield, Partner dpa lighting consultants
- Piero Benvenuti, Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics, University of Padua
- Rogier van der Heide, Lighting Designer
- Shelley James, Lighting Strategy Consultant, Director Age of Light Innovations
- Manuel Spitschan, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics & Professor of Chronobiology & Health, Technical University of Munich
WORKSHOP
15.45 hours: Transparency, Flexibility and Sustainability with Adrien de Lassence, Associate Director Sou Fujimoto Atelier Paris
11 APRIL
Light for Spaces
Moderated by Ed Stocker, Europe Editor at Large Monocle
INTRODUCTORY GREETINGS
10.15 am: Maria Porro, President of Salone del Mobile.Milano, Carlo Urbinati, President of Assoluce of FederlegnoArredo
MASTERCLASS
10.30 hours: The Role of Light and Shadow in Architecture Kaoru Mende, Lighting Designer
11.15 am: LIGHT. An Instrument of Life and Revelation, Patrick Rimoux, Light Sculptor
12.15pm: Uniting People Through Light and Motion Lonneke Gordijn, Artist, Co-Founder DRIFT
PANEL DISCUSSION
14.00 hours:
- Susanna Antico, Architect, Lighting Designer
- Hervé Descottes, Lighting Designer, Founder L'Observatoire International
- Mariel Fuentes, Lighting Designer, Co-Founder MMAS Lighting
- Tim Ingold, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
- Elisa Orlanski Ours, Chief Planning, Design Officer Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group
- Carla Wilkins, President-Elect IALD, Senior Partner Lichtvision design
WORKSHOP
15.45 Temporary Light in Permanent Space: Creative Lighting Solutions for Museums and Exhibitions AJ Weissbard, Lighting Designer
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