Programme
In this current context, LUCI and the City of Tartu plan to offer the best quality event to the Urban lighting community: the LUCI AGM Tartu is therefore planned as a hybrid event, where each attendee can choose to attend in-person for sessions, onsite visits and convivial social events in Tartu, or to attend online to view all conference sessions from anywhere in the world.
⚠ All times listed are in Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) ⚠
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Wednesday 27 October
17:30 | Welcome cocktail
Location: Club Atlantis, next to the River Emajõg
- Mayor of the City of Tartu
- LUCI President
19:00 | TAVA2021 Light Festival Opening Gala and After Party
Designated area near River Emajõg
Thursday 28 October
Location: V Spa Conference Centre | Riia 2, 51004 Tartu
09:00 | Coffee & Registrations
09:45 | Opening of the LUCI AGM
- Urmas Klaas, Mayor of the City of Tartu
- Meri Lumela, President of LUCI; Deputy Chair of the City Council of Jyväskylä
10:00 – 12:00 | Public Lighting in Tartu
This Tartu City session will focus on both street lighting and public architectural lighting. Deputy Mayor Raimond Tamm will share an overview of the new master plan for the public lighting of the city of Tartu and lighting planning in the city more generally. Tiiu Kelviste, Head of Geospatial Solutions, and Jaanus Tamm, Project Manager, will introduce the current state of Tartu street lighting, ongoing and planned projects, and the Tartu street lighting management solution. Elo Liiv will focus on architectural lighting in Tartu.
- Raimond Tamm, Deputy Mayor, City of Tartu
- Tiiu Kelviste, Head of Geospatial Solutions, City of Tartu
- Jaanus Tamm, Project Manager, City of Tartu
- Elo Liiv, TAVA2021 main organiser
12:00 – 13:15 | Lunch
13:15 – 14:45 | Panel Discussion: Smart steps towards smart lighting
Cities are confronted with the question of how to deal with developments toward smart lighting. How can we help cities form their vision on smart lighting, choose their development paths, and support possible actions towards realisation?
LUCI’s white paper on smart urban lighting (October 2021), a truly collective document – by cities, for cities – aims to help address these issues.
This session will share the main highlights of this ground-breaking document and what it implies for the future of urban lighting.
Keynote: Dr. Philip Ross, Founder of design studio Studio Philip Ross, and author of the white paper
- Helene Qvist, Smart City Consultant, City of Albertslund
- Rik van Stiphout, Programme advisor Light & Culture, City of Eindhoven
- Zoltán Pap, Managing Director, BDK Budapest
- Youngho Baik, Member of Advisory Committee Urban Lighting, City of Seoul
Moderated by Nikita Junagade, Knowledge and Communication Manager, LUCI Association
14:45 – 15:15 | Coffee Break
Engaging communities through participation: Lantern-making workshop
During coffee breaks, lunch, and throughout the day, join fellow participants to make or decorate your own lantern! Walk the Plank (UK), pioneers of outdoor arts and civic celebration, will lead the workshop in collaboration with local Tartu2024 artist Meeri-Ann Ostrov, who herself was part of the company’s training school in participatory arts, supported by Creative Europe. Participants will have a chance to showcase the lanterns during a procession to open Friday’s panel “Lighting in European Capitals of Culture”.
15:15 – 16:15 | Open Conference Sessions (OCS)
The LUCI Open Conference Sessions are the place where LUCI members showcase their cities’ lighting strategies, projects and other initiatives, in a unique international forum.
The OCS are are organised in parallel tracks where each presentation lasts 15 minutes. A Q&A follows the full session for questions from in-person and online participants.
Click here for the full OCS descriptions
16:30 – 18:00 | LUCI General Assembly (LUCI members only)
This is the opportunity for LUCI members to learn about the network’s ongoing and future activities. Upcoming events, projects and new perspectives will be presented.
// 15:15 – 18:00 [in parallel to the afternoon programme ] TAVA 2021 Conference Track
The TAVA 2021 Conference track will feature presentations from lighting designers involved in the TAVA workshops: CJ Brockway, Veronika Mayerboeck, Johan Moritz, and Tina Wikström.
18:00 | Free time
19:15 | Dinner
Meet in front of Lydia hotel and walk together to the Museum of the University of Tartu
(Address: Lossi str. 25, 3rd floor, White Hall)
After dinner | Light excursion around Tartu
Leave straight from dinner.
Discover various lighting projects around Tartu, including bridges, interesting facades, and a forest surprise!
© Marek Metslaid 
© TAVA 
© Marek Metslaid
Friday 29 October
Location: Estonian National Museum
08:30 | Bus departure from hotel to Estonian National Museum
09:00 | Coffee & Registrations
09:30 – 11:00 | Panel discussion — Lighting as a cultural strategy: examples from European Capitals of Culture
More and more cities are using lighting beyond urban planning strategies and are beginning to incorporate it into their cultural strategies as well. Recently, this has become quite evident as cities include lighting within their bids and projects for European Capitals of Culture.
In this session, speakers from previous, future, and recently awarded EU Capitals of Culture (Galway 2020; Tartu 2024; Oulu 2026) will discuss how they have integrated lighting strategies, from permanent light art projects, temporary light festivals, to community engagement initiatives, into their wider cultural policies.
Keynote introduction by Dr. Beatriz García, Associate Director of the Centre for Cultural Value
- Helen Marriage, Director, Artichoke
- Piia Rantala-Korhonen, Director of Oulu2026
- Massimiliano Burgi, Project Manager for Lumen-Social Light and Elvira De Giacomo, Executive Coordinator, Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation
11:00 – 12:00 | Open Conference Sessions (OCS)
The LUCI Open Conference Sessions are the place where LUCI members showcase their cities’ lighting strategies, projects and other initiatives, in a unique international forum.
The OCS are are organised in parallel tracks where each presentation lasts 15 minutes. A Q&A follows the full session for questions from in-person and online participants.
Click here for the full OCS descriptions
12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 | LUCI AGM Closing and Announcements
In this LUCI AGM Tartu closing session, we will take the opportunity to present upcoming LUCI activities and events.
14:00 – 14:30 | Coffee Break
14:30 – 16:00 | LUCI Light Festival Working Group Meeting (LUCI members only)
The newly formed LUCI Light Festival Working Group will meet in Tartu to share and exchange about challenges and innovations in the field.
// 13:00 – 15:00 | [in parallel to the afternoon programme] TAVA2021 artist talks
In parallel to the afternoon programme, the TAVA 2021 Conference track will feature quick pecha kucha presentations by international light artists involved in the TAVA workshops: Caspar Lootsmann, Elo Liiv, Rene Tamm, Alyona Movko,
Tatsuru Arai, Maria Paz/ Exotikdot, Paola Medina Querini, Space & Spectra, Al Paldrok, Taje Paldrok.
19:00 | Festival Dinner
Meet in front of Lydia Hotel, walk together to Tartu City Museum
20:30 | Guided tour of the TAVA2021 Light Road
Leave straight from dinner
Saturday 30 October
Optional Programme
09:30 | Bus departure from Lydia Hotel to Estonian National Museum
Join programme participants to discover Tartu in a new way: choose from a scooter tour of the city or a guided tour of the Estonian National Museum. The programme will conclude with a convivial lunch at the museum.
🚧 This programme, timing and speakers are subject to change and will be updated periodically.
