LUCI at International Year of Light closing ceremony
The International Year of Light 2015 (IYL2015) will be brought to an official close with a ceremony held over three days from 4 to 6 February 2016 in Mérida, Mexico.
LUCI will be a speaker in one of the IYL2015 closing ceremony workshops on “Light in the built environment, light and architecture” at 15:30 on 4 February 2016.
LUCI Director Mark Burton-Page will present how cities of the LUCI network use urban lighting as a tool for sustainable social, economic and cultural development.
In addition, a colloquium on 5 February co-moderated by lighting designer Gustavo Aviles and Mark Burton-Page, will address the topic of lighting as an element of the relationship between art and science.
It has been a tremendous success with thousands of events reaching millions of people in over a hundred countries. The Closing Ceremony provided a forum to both continue the celebration of light and its many applications in science and society, with keynote speakers such as Nobel laureates John Mather and Shuji Nakamura, as well as leaders from the wider lighting community.
More information on the closing ceremony and its programme
Read a Cities & Lighting interview with John Dudley, Chairman of the IYL 2015 Steering Committee, on the role of urban lighting in the International Year of Light
More information on IYL2015
