Ulf Moback

Landscape Architect, Strategic Department, Gothenburg City Planning Authority

Ulf coordinates the city’s investigation and planning for climate adaptation. He previously worked as a Landscape Architect educated at Ultuna and Alnarp universities. He has conducted various research studies, as well as cooperation and exchange projects with cities around the world. He has also developed concepts for climate adaptation in Frihamnen.

Lars Ocklund

Head of Street Lighting, Traffic and Public transport Authority, City of Gothenburg

Lars has extensive experience working with lighting and illumination in the urban landscape, from the early stages as Master Plans to lighting tests and all the way down to “nuts and bolts level”. Always in a fine balance between function and aesthetics with a focus on the people who will use the space.

Daniel Sjölund

Civil engineer, City of Gothenburg Urban Transport Administration

Daniel is a civil engineer working with urban planning and street design at the City of Gothenburg Urban Transport Administration. He focuses on making the public spaces more attractive both day and night in the city.Daniel was the project manager for the lighting policy “Stadens ljus” and is now the project manager for the lighting masterplans of the “Frihamnen” and “Södra Älvstranden” districts.

Janica Wicklander

Lighting Designer, Architect and Landscaper, TENGBOM

Janica is an award winning lighting designer, architect and landscaper. She is an experienced project manager in architecture, planning and lighting design. With a wide variety of assignments from public authorities, municipalities and private actors and has a good understanding of how complex processes with light can be designed and implemented.

Lars Fredén

Architect and Lighting Designer, Ljus & Form Design

Lars works as an architect and lighting designer in his own company Ljus & Form Design. He has more than 35 years of experience in the field of architecture and 20 years in lighting design. Within his former employment at Ramböll Sverige AB, he carried out many lighting design projects. These include  streets, squares, parks and buildings such as Götaplatsen – winner of the Swedish Lighting Award 2010 and honored by the Nordic Lighting award 2014 – Götatunneln, Gubberoparken and Vasagatan in Gothenburg.

Christina Vildinge

Designer, White Arkitekter

Christina is a designer with a background in business management and design methodologies in strategic processes for sustainable development. She also teaches at the School of Design and Crafts at Gothenburg University. Christina has deep knowledge of the aesthetic experience and learning as a creator of value and innovation in the encounter between the physical material and social life. She is currently engaged as researcher in the EU mapping of design as driver of innovation and growth.

Lena From

Head of Special Projects, Public Art Agency Sweden

Lena has recently joined The Public Art Agency where she is responsible for the government Commission entitled Konst händer: “Art happens”. She studied journalism and art history and has a background as an editor for cultural reportage in Göteborgsposten, chief editor for the Tidskriften Digital Fotografi and editor of the magazine Arkitektur. In the past 8 years she has been head of projects for the public art in Stockholm, where she together with colleagues, project managers and artists, finalised more than a 100 temporary and permanent art projects.

Alexandra Stratimirovic

Visual Artist

Aleksandra works in the field of art and light. She has completed a number of permanent site-specific artworks for various public places in Sweden and abroad. She is the co-founder of the Lighting Guerrilla festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia, a core member of Transnational Lighting Detectives, and founder and artistic director of the event Belgrade of Light in Serbia. She is also the author of the awarded book You Say Light – I Think Shadow, together with Sandra Praun.

Margaretha Stenmark

Project Manager, Lights in Alingsås festival, City of Alingsås

Margaretha is a lighting designer and technician at Alingsås Energi. She is responsible for street lighting in Alingsås, both current and future, as well as for the workshop held in the framework of the Lights in Alingsås festival. She has previously worked for 30 years as an electric engineer and consultant and as a salesperson at different companies like Fagerhult and Zumtobel to mention some.