LUCI Events

LUCI offers cities spaces to exchange experience and know-how by organising events, conferences and meetings around the world.

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LUCI “Sparking the Future of Urban Lighting” 2022

To celebrate the networks’ 20 year anniversary, the LUCI community gathered in May 2022 for the special online event “Sparking the Future of Urban Lighting”. Through keynotes, roundtables and LUCI working group meetings, the 3-day event followed the keywords celebration, participation, and inspiration in order to build a common vision of the Future of Urban Lighting together. During the event, the inaugural Cities & Lighting Awards were launched. Besides reflecting on the last two decades, LUCI members participated in the co-creation of the LUCI Declaration on the future of urban lighting.

Read the full programme and list of Speakers of this milestone event.

LUCI Annual General Meeting

The LUCI Annual General Meeting (AGM) brings together the members of LUCI for its General Assembly as well as conferences, working group meetings, open conference sessions and the discovery of the host city and its lighting policy. In the past few years, the AGM took place in Seoul (South Korea) in 2016, Durham (UK) in 2017, Rabat (Morocco) in 2018, Shanghai (China) in 2019, online in 2020 (which was an occasion to vote for the nenewal of the LUCI Executive Committee), Tartu (Estonia) in 2021 and Busan (South Korea) in 2022 and in Jyväskylä (Finland) in 2023.

The 2024 AGM will take place in Montpellier (France) – stay tuned for more information soon!

The City under Microscope

A “City under Microscope” (CM) enable participants to discover the lighting strategy of a member city over a two-day period. It includes field visits and technical conferences on permanent or temporary lighting projects.

The last few CM events took place in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in September 2017, Toulouse (France) in May 2018, Rotterdam (the Netherlands) in March 2019, and Oulu (Finland) in November 2019. The latest City under Microscope was hosted by Stavanger (Norway) and took place online 18-20 March 2021.

The LUCI Asia Urban Lighting Workshop

The Asia Urban Lighting Workshop (AULW) is an annual regional workshop on sustainable urban lighting tailored for Asian cities in the LUCI network and beyond. It was organised for the first time in 2017, by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and LUCI, in collaboration with CityNet. The workshop aims to provide public lighting decision-makers in Asia an overview of the opportunities and benefits of sustainable urban lighting. It is a unique opportunity for Asian lighting professionals and decision-makers to meet and learn from urban lighting experts and engage in peer to peer knowledge, transfer and exchange of good practices and solutions through group discussions and analysis, interactive work sessions, networking and site visits. 

The 2023 edition of the Workshop took place in-person in Seoul from 19 to 21 September.

The Lyon Light Festival Forum

Each year, in conjunction with Lyon’s world-renowned Fête des Lumières and in partnership with the City of Lyon, LUCI Association organises the Lyon Light Festival Forum (LLFF). This event offers cities as well as lighting professionals from around the world a unique and original space to discuss and debate about new forms of creative lighting.

From 2014, the annual LLFF always welcomed participants to learn about various topics in person or online. Read more about past editions here.

Registrations for LLFF 2023 are open here.

LUCI Coffee Bre@ks

In order to engage with members, offer new learning experiences and maintain online the much loved “LUCI Family” atmosphere of our in person events, the LUCI Coffee Bre@ks were created. These short 30-minute regular online rendezvous sessions are an opportunity for members to stay in touch and hear from experts on a variety of urban lighting topics. Members have access to replays on the LUCI hub, our dedicated knowledge exchange platform.

Read about upcoming and past Coffee Breaks here.

Since its creation in 2002, LUCI has, along with its member cities, been organising events to help city professionals exchange information and know-how on the issues that most concern them. Take a look!

All materials belong to © LUCI Association; additional credits include: © Michel Djaoui – City of Lyon; © Philips Lighting (Rabat); © Marc Verpoorten – City of Liege; © Mauro Donato – Luci d’Artista (Torino); © City of Budapest; © City of Birmingham; © City of Leipzig