Taxco de Alarcón, in central Mexico, began implementing a lighting masterplan in 2009 (Taxco Ciudad Luz), and joined LUCI in 2010. The masterplan’s goal is to preserve the historical memory of the city, which is known for its rich heritage of chapels, monuments and fountains. Evelyn Figueroa, the Municipal Tourism Secretary, will present three projects and their creative aspects in particular: the illumination of a “tourist circuit” in Taxco’s old alleys, the “Bright Christmas” project, and the general maintenance of the peripheral public lighting.

We realized that, as Colombians, we don’t have the opportunity to travel through our country, and many people would rather go abroad for tourism. As a result of this, our concept for this year has emerged: “This Christmas stay in Colombia, your Home”.

The Medellín Christmas Light Tour 2020 has been created in order to celebrate three different aspects of tourism: architecture, nature and culture. This is a project to think, feel and talk about LOCAL, to embrace our essence as Colombians celebrating our identity.

We know how much this special magic of Christmas can fill our hearts, that’s why our main goal is to give the city the best light show each year, creating precious pieces of art installed in main parks and avenues around the city.

Furthermore, our goal is to rebuild our city, reactivate the economy and provide fun for its citizens after a long quarantine.

Shad will take us on an exploration of how one city (Saskatoon) used a creative lighting project and community process to elevate interest in responsible and creative lighting, leading to the launch of the Eclat Lighting Initiative. The presentation will feature examples from the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Lighting Project and the Lighting Master Plan Community and Stakeholder Engagement Process.

The goals of the Eclat Lighting Initiative are: 1) Education and knowledge building with regard to the design, implementation and use of light for artistic expression, safety, ambience, traffic and pedestrian flow, in ways that reduce power consumption and contributes positively to environmental sustainability. 2) Provide live scaled examples of lighting approaches and solutions that can enhance quality of life while reducing power consumption and contributing positively to environmental sustainability.

For over 10 years Lumière has invited artists from across the world to respond to the extraordinary topography and dark streets of the medieval city of Durham. Every two years over the 4 nights of the festival, Durham welcomes audiences numbering more than four times the population of the city. As the audience for the festival grows, so too does the work by Artichoke between the editions to build long term partnerships to enable the festival to be inspired by and to inspire the people who live and work across County Durham.

During the year before each festival, in schools and colleges, libraries and community centres, artists collaborate with local residents to locate the artworks firmly in the lives and experiences of the people who call Durham home. As skills and stories are shared across continents the festival is strengthened by an equal connection with people and place.

To give plastic the place it deserves – notably as the 5th element – BIBI has worked relentlessly with two universally distributed icons: polyethylene containers and traffic cones from Lübeck. Using familiar accessories, conceived of in an eminently contemporary material, BIBI’s work has been examining our relationship with the environment and our capacity to face contradictions created by garbage since 1991.
Why plastic? Because if being bipedal, making tools, laughing and consciousness are no longer our nature, then nature is to be found elsewhere. Man’s nature is undoubtedly his phenomenal appetite for self-destruction and coming up with gimmicks and useless, if not outlandish, garbage.