Lyon Light Festival Forum 2024
Thursday 05 December 2024
Lyon City Centre
| 14:00 – 15:30: Light Festival Working Group meeting
(LUCI members only) 16:00 – 16:45: Cities & Lighting Awards Ceremony – followed by cocktail reception (Open to LUCI members and guests – registration required) 17:00 – 19:00: Cities & Lighting Cocktail Reception (Open to LUCI members and guests – registration required) |
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From 19:00: Discover the Fête des Lumières
After a welcome cocktail, join international peers for an informal tour through Lyon to discover some of the light installations of this year’s festival.
Friday 06 December 2024
Venue to be disclosed soon
09:30 – 10:00: Welcome & Registration
10:00 – 10:15: Opening of the Lyon Light Festival Forum 2024
10:15 – 11:00: Session – The Making of the Festival
- Simona Matta, Sociologist-Consultant at Kaleido’scope
- Emmanuelle Gallot-Delamezière (Ph.D), Urban Planner and Environmental Geographer
Conditions of the emergence of the Festival: how the Festival of Light has developed over time, focusing on the various human, contextual and situational factors that have influenced it and shaped its evolution from the 1980s to the present day, making the internationally renown “Fête des Lumières” that we know today.
11:00 – 12:15: Session – Culture and Eco-design
- Sylvie Bétard, Circular Economy Consultant for Sustainability Transition & Co-Founder at Les Augures
11:15 – 12:30: Session – Evolution of Uses and Values of Urban Lighting for Events
- Jean-Michel Deleuil, University Professor in Geography, Urban Studies, and Planning | INSA Lyon
11:30 – 12:30: Keynote – Impacts of Light Festivals
- Beatriz Garcia, Associate Director for the Centre of Cultural Value, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow | International Cultural Policy & Mega-Events, University of Liverpool
12:30 – 13:45: Lunch
14:00 – 16:30: Creative Lighting ‘Pecha Kuchas’
- Moderated by Jessica Ferey, LUCI Deputy Director
These sessions of “Pecha Kucha”- style speed presentations will be an opportunity for peer-to-peer sharing and exchange in the field of creative lighting. Hear from light festival organisers, artists, and designers about creative lighting projects.
16:30 – 17:30: Coffee & (Light)Speed Networking
Take part in this speed networking moment to meet other participants, and share your ideas of how light festivals can continue celebrating art and imagination in cities.
17:30 – 17:45: Closing of the 2024 Edition of the Lyon Light Festival Forum
From 19:00: Self-guided tour of the Fête des Lumières
Photo credits:
©Muriel Chaulet, City of Lyon / ©Laurence Danière, City of Lyon / ©LUCI Association