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PLDA workshops

During the workshop you will not only have the opportunity to work together with the best professional Lighting Designers worldwide, you will also have the task of developing and realising a concept in a group headed by one of these professionals.

During the workshop and the get-together party at the end of the week you have the chance to meet new people and make contacts for your future in the profession.

This year the PLDA workshop truck will stop in three exciting but totally different cities for a large-scale workshop. Each workshop will deal with a different topic in the field of architectural lighting design.
(Pre-)Register now!

Light and Music Workshop in Stavanger/N www.lightandmusic.no

Inside Outside Workshop in Alingsås/S www.alingsas.se

Light and Scale Workshop in Liverpool/UK, pre-register at lritter(at)via-internet.com

PLDA Light Focus Middle East

The PLDA Light Focus Middle East conference is part of the Light Middle East fair in Dubai/UAE and will be taking place from 25. - 27. May, 2008.

The programme is now online. Click here.

The environmental danger of energy saving compact fluorescent lamps

The Professional Lighting Designers’ Association (PLDA) is a global, voluntary, non-political, professional association of architectural lighting designers and lighting consultants who are active on a national and an international scale. We have been following with great concern the numerous proposals in Australia, Ireland and worldwide to phase-out incandescent lamps (the common light bulb) and feel a responsibility to present a position that addresses the critical environmental issues related to these proposals.

It is evident from our analysis that the true energy saving of compact fluorescent lamps is less than half of that being claimed by the manufacturers.

It is also evident from our analysis that the highly toxic mercury contained within these lamps represents a significant risk with the additional mercury reaching our ecosystem from landfill being sufficient to contaminate the entire Lake Geneva – the largest fresh water body in Europe – within eight years!

Press conferences are to be held on this subject in London/UK and Frankfurt, Germany shortly.

Researching, investigating, debating and reporting on this topic for PLDA: Gad Giladi, FPLDA, Kevan Shaw, PLDA, IALD.

Download Gad Giladi’s report here.

See also: www.savethebulb.org

Declaration of the Official Establishment of the Architectural Lighting Design Profession

Adopted and proclaimed by the plenary session of the Professional Lighting Design Convention, in London, UK, on October 27, 2007

On October 27, 2007 the plenary session of the PLDC (the Professional Lighting
Design Convention) adopted and proclaimed the Declaration of the Official Establishment of the Architectural Lighting Design Profession, the full contents of which appears in the following text. Following this historic act, the plenary session calls upon all lighting and lighting related associations, organizations and publications to publicize the text of the Declaration and to “cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded in international, national and local government circles, in all official educational authorities, in schools of various design, architectural and engineering disciplines and among the memberships of the same associations and organizations.