Current lighting design practice requires designers to consider both the visual environment they are creating and to delve into the operational characteristics of the systems being installed. Designers need to be able to articulate their vision of how the systems they design will work and how they will interact with adjacent building systems. Increasing stringency in energy codes has contributed to this trend and design teams now often find themselves faced with questions of how to create a level of interoperability that was not so commonplace in the recent past. Fortunately, the tools exist to articulate both the designer’s intent and the specific steps required to achieve that intent. By examining the development process behind the Control Intent Narrative and the Sequence of Operations, this course will provide a look at the steps for assembling these documents and specific examples of language that is both clear and contractually enforceable.

When creating interior aesthetics for large publicly shared airport spaces for persons from different cultures, ethnicities, economic backgrounds, with varied health-related requirements, who are traveling for a variety of different reasons, we are challenged to create a harmonious interior experience. The FAA reports that an estimated 2,900,000 passengers fly every day in and out of US airports. While this is a staggering number, COVID has impacted this number in various ways. Passengers, in addition to adjusting to post 9-11 increased safety regulations, also now are dealing with pandemic factors such as feeling an increased loss of control, heightened stress, grief, a perceived decline in the air travel customer experience and fear of the unknown. As airport designers we have a duty to step up and address these concerns directly when creating new or renovating existing airport interiors. This presents us with a tremendous challenge and opportunity to provide a healthy, beautiful, safe, and fun airport experience for all passengers.

Setting a goal is easy; actually achieving that goal is not. The first step for professional women is embracing a new mindset of adaptability and flexibility, especially in our current environment. We have to break free of old habits and attitudes and be willing to take risks in the moment to achieve our objectives, both personally and professionally. Otherwise we’ll be one of the 96% of people who don’t achieve a life they desire. Jan Spence shares with attendees the same formula she used to buy, build, and sell a business for 300% ROI in just 4 years. Through interactive exercises and group discussions, participants will learn new ways to empower themselves and others to get rid of unnecessary roadblocks, focus on what makes them successful, and then capitalize on these new methods. In this high energy, interactive program, Women in Lighting + Design will walk away empowered with new ways of viewing their future and steps to put into action to get to the next level.

Every designer being an architect, engineer, interior designer or lighting expert has sometime faced the dilemma of considering the intention of somehow merging aesthetic styles from different geographies of the world in order to create a richer and rejuvenated built environment. This initiative leads us to countless very discouraging scenarios in some cases: impenetrable local technical regulations and standards, markets without incentives, exorbitant costs, reluctance to the unknown and to trying new alternatives.

A lively conversation about the true value of lighting agents historically... now... and in the future.

Looking at the lighting industry as a whole, LGBTQIA+ people are underrepresented as compared to the general population. It's especially bad for trans and non-binary people. We will examine the state of queer representation in different sectors of the industry, explore the factors contributing to these conditions, and discuss ideas and strategies for making businesses and organizations in the lighting world more inclusive.

ARCHITECT magazine's own Paul Makovsky, Editor in Chief, moderated an innovative panel of Texas-based architects examining "How Lone Star Architecture Is Setting Directions in Design”. Texas is enjoying the largest state population growth in the country, with a tandem boom in construction and renovation turning attention to the Lone Star State.

So often the pressures of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) work and implementation fall onto persons of color to recognize, evaluate and dismantle non-inclusive systems. This pressure creates additional stressors and otherness for those employees without any guaranteed effort or effect on the system itself. This presentation will illuminate some of the unintentional ways efforts to make change can in fact reinforce systemic problems and evaluate ways that allyship can insert relief and support to the underrepresented in the workplace. Using Chromatic as an example, Nick Albert and Lauren Dandridge establish that actionable diversity, equity and inclusion strategies must involve all allies for progression of the entire system.

Lighting design workflows have traditionally involved 2D drafting software, 3D calculation software, and word processing software for schedules. But where do these tools fit in the 3D BIM world? Lighting designers can leverage complex architectural Revit models to stop duplicating modeling time and start realizing efficiencies in background management, fixture counts, budgeting, and more. In this discussion, we discuss how our lighting design firm has gone from Revit viewers to Revit modelers. We’ll dive deep into case studies of real world applications showcasing some of the key concepts that made our most useful lighting families, the power and limitations of the ElumTools plugin from Lighting Analyst, as well as some tips and tricks we wish we knew before starting the process.

COVID-19 will not only change the way we work, it will change how we interact with people and physical objects. As we return to the workplace, we will have to not only rethink the way we engage with the space but how we interact with each other. A new social dynamic will be created with potential for unease, increased anxiety and conflict. Adding that to the fact that we are living in a world where we are constantly connected, and the in-flow of information seems never-ending, the inability to disconnect is causing a dramatic increase in stress levels amongst workers today. We are also living in a time where exponential change is being driven by advances and rapid development of new autonomous technology. Hence, we are seeing the parallel rise of the machine age and the rise of the human factor. These two streams were already converging in the workplace and changing not only the tools we use, but when, where and how we work as well. Going forward we need to create environments that can help accommodate all and address both physical and social challenges we are now faced with.