Successful “Sharing light 4Ukraine” campaign
12-05-2023As part of the campaign "Sharing light 4Ukraine: Leipzig, Brussels, Kyiv and you", the LUCI network colle...
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LUCI Declaration for the future of urban lighting
11-05-2023Drafted and reviewed by LUCI members, during co-creation sessions and gatherings held throughout the ...
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Open Call for Amsterdam Light Festival 2024-2025
24-04-2023During the Open Call, Amsterdam Light Festival invites creatives to submit a concept for a light artwork....
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LAiPS project partners met for the 4th Light & Art Lab
18-04-2023Last week, #LAiPS project partners met in City of Amsterdam and City of Rotterdam for the 4th #LightArtLa...
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Call for Proposals 2023: Lumo Light Festival Oulu
13-03-2023Lumo Light Festival Oulu is calling for artists, designers, and lighting professionals as well as stu...
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LUCI Cities & Lighting Magazine n°10 is available! 📰
09-03-2023In this 10th edition of the LUCI Cities & Lighting Magazine, we focus on one of the essential layers ...
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Back on Vilnius Light Festival & the 700 years of the city
21-02-2023Throughout 2023, Vilnius will have a number of city-wide cultural, educational, and art events to celebra...
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Sharing light 4Ukraine: Leipzig, Brussels, Kyiv and you
21-02-2023While the continuing situation in Ukraine has sadly reached its 1-year mark, cities of Leipzig and Bruss...
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City of Light Jyväskylä: Open Call 2023
21-02-2023The 17th City of Light event will be held from 28 September to 7 October 2023. The annu...
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GLOW Eindhoven light festival is looking for artists
20-02-2023"It’s the city makes GLOW". Each edition includes 30 to 35 light artwork projects by Dutch and in...
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Sharing lights 4Ukraine: 3 ways you can help
17-02-2023The situation in Ukraine will sadly soon pass the 1 year marking point. Based on the idea behind the ligh...
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Lyon Light Festival 2023: Call for Projects
14-02-2023Fête des Lumières is organising a Call for Projects dedicated to the various horizons of contemporary lig...
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Tutorial on Urban Lighting Masterplanning 2023
30-01-2023CIE Division 4 is organising a Tutorial on Urban Lighting Masterplanning in Istanbul, Turkey from 3 to 5 ...
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Menschen memorial installation initiates a lamp collect for Ukraine during the Bright Festival
30-01-2023Menschen, a light installation by Philippe Morvan, was originally presented in Leipzig in 2019 to mark th...
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Lighting takes new significance for sustainability in Gothenburg
26-01-2023Lighting is now included in the general Gothenburg Master Plan, adopted by the City Council in May 2022, ...
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The City of Vilnius celebrates its 700th anniversary in 2023 during Light Festival!
23-01-2023In 1323, on January 25th, Duke Gediminas sent one of his famous letters, as if illuminating this little-k...
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LUCI 20 years in 2022
05-01-2023LUCI 20 years events Sparking the Future of Urban Lighting – online gathering Read >> Ex...
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Inspiring speakers shared their crossed visions on the future of light festivals during LLFF 2022
20-12-2022Organised by LUCI and the City of Lyon, the 2022 edition of the Lyon Light Festival Forum ...
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Light can be a “Beacon of Hope”
16-12-2022Are light festivals still sustainable ? What is the future of Light festivals ? ✨ Light can be a "...
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Watch the Retrospective and Future of 20 years of LUCI with Jean-Michel Daclin, LUCI Honorary President
01-12-2022In this interview made at the occasion of LUCI's 20th anniversary, former LUCI President Jean-Michel Dacl...
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Call for Expressions of Interest to Host LUCI events 2024-2025
29-11-2022Be the next host city of the LUCI Annual General Meeting or LUCI City under Microscope! We are now cal...
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Luci d’Artista celebrates its 25th birthday
24-11-2022The 25th anniversary-edition of the famous light festival of Turin was launched on Wednesday 27 October 2...
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LUCI network explores the Future of Urban Lighting in Busan
08-11-2022The LUCI Annual General Meeting 2022 in Busan, South Korea, which was jointly organised by LUCI and Busan...
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Welcome to new LUCI member cities Istanbul, Madiun Regency and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole!
27-10-2022LUCI is delighted to welcome three new city members to the network these past few weeks: I...
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Cities of Jyväskylä, Rabat, Seoul and Glasgow to lead the LUCI network
27-10-2022The member cities of LUCI elected a new Executive Committee to lead the network during the LUCI General A...
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Beacon of Hope – an international light art co-creation
29-09-2022How can cities adapt to changing social and environmental contexts? Light festivals can be fantastic spac...
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“La nuit est belle” – happening on September 23rd 2022!
23-09-2022Co-organised since 2019 by Greater Geneva, the Geneva Natural History Museum, the Geneva Astronomical Soc...
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The LUCI AGM Busan is one month away!
21-09-2022The LUCI AGM Busan is one month away - and the LUCI team is excited to meet you there in-person! Belo...
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Call for Artists: LEIPZIG FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS is looking for outdoor artistic projects to be presented along Leipzig’s inner-city ring road.
19-09-2022Calling "We are the people" and "No violence", around 70,000 people gathered on October 9, 1989, to march...
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15th of September is the anniversary of the LUCI Charter on Urban Lighting!
15-09-2022Since 2010, cities worldwide have committed to the LUCI Charter on Urban Lighting – a common vision that aims...
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Only two days left to apply for Cities & Lighting Awards
07-09-2022Cities and local authorities have until Friday 9 September 2022 – 11:59pm CEST to submit an application f...
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What awaits you at LUCI Annual General Meeting in Busan?
30-08-2022🎤 New learning format: LUCI Talks We are launching the LUCI Talks, an enlightening series of 1...
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One month left to apply for the LUCI Cities & Lighting Awards!
11-08-2022Cities and other organisations have until 9 September 2022 to fill in the Application Form 2022 and submi...
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LUCI Summer Reading List
02-08-2022☀️ Take some time this summer for some light reading! Check out some of the recent LUCI urb...
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LUCI Summer Watch List
25-07-2022Throughout our many events, we have been building the collective knowledge on urban lighting. ...
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Amsterdam Light Festival 2022: Call for Concepts
22-07-2022During the Call for Concepts, the Amsterdam Light Festival invites creatives from all over the world to s...
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Highlights of LUCI Asia Urban Lighting Workshop 2022
18-07-2022The Future of Urban Lighting after COVID-19 The 2022 LUCI Asia Urban Lighting Workshop, held jointly...
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The city of Eindhoven tests smart public lighting
15-07-2022They look like flying saucers, or a kind of floating pebbles – the two new light fixtures that will be ha...
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Job opening – Programme Manager
11-07-2022📢 We are recruiting a Programme Manager! In collaboration with the LUCI team, you will wor...
Read more Why your city should apply for the LUCI Cities & Lighting Awards?
07-07-2022Whether it is for the intention and objectives of their design, their implementation or overall impact, don't...
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Oulu 2026 Open Call: The Finnish city of Oulu, European Capital of Culture 2026, announces an Open Call for cultural programme partners
01-07-2022Finland will take the cultural centre stage in Europe in 2026 as the City of Oulu, together with 32 munic...
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Delightful daylight in Jyväskylä
29-06-2022An installation called "Pallerot" (meaning "Dots") has been installed for the summer 2022 in Jyväskylä (F...
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Launching of the LUCI Cities & Lighting Awards
16-06-2022At the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Association, we are proud to announce that the new...
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Sparking the Future of Urban Lighting Highlights
02-06-2022Starting on 16th of May 2022, the International Day of Light, 190 participants from 38 different countrie...
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LUCI’s Executive Committee statement in reaction to the situation in Ukraine
31-03-2022During a meeting on the 25th of March 2022, the LUCI Executive Committee stated: "In reaction to t...
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Earth Hour 2022
30-03-2022On Saturday 26 March 2022, Earth Hour was taken up again by LUCI City Members. Organized every year since ...
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LUCI Annual Report 2021 is out!
22-03-2022We are pleased to share with you Connecting Cities with Light, the LUCI Annual Report 2021! Read t...
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New publication: Cities’ Guide to Smart Lighting
17-01-2022LUCI has published the Cities’ Guide to Smart Lighting – a white paper, from cities, for cities – aiming ...
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In Tallinn, the Haabersti tunnels receive a unique lighting solution
19-12-2021Earlier this year, the City of Tallinn, a LUCI member, unveiled a new adaptive lighting for tunnels in th...
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LUCI awarded 2021 Spotlight prize of the LIT Lighting Design Awards
14-12-2021LUCI has received the 2021 Spotlight prize of the LIT Lighting Design Awards for its contribution to ...
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Celebrating 10 years of the Ghent Light Festival
15-11-2021The Ghent Light Festival celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2021 by bringing back some of its most pop...
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LUCI AGM Tartu – a one-of-a- kind event
15-11-2021The LUCI Annual General Meeting 2021 in Tartu, Estonia brought together over 200 LUCI members and the urb...
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LUCI and the European Capitals of Culture, a special relationship?
15-10-2021In the early eighties, the Greek and French culture ministers came up with the idea of designating every ...
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New lighting for Reykjavík’s Ódinstorg square
29-09-2021The Municipality of Reykjavík recently inaugurated a new look for the Ódinstorg square in the cit...
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Opinion on Smart Lighting: « How can cities coordinate the whole process of development to becoming a smart city? »
29-09-2021By Zoltán Pap, Managing Director, Budapest Flood and Public Lighting Company – BDK (City of Budapest) ...
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Opinion on Smart Lighting: « We need to ask the right questions and keep the rights of citizens above all else »
29-09-2021By Helene Qvist, Smart City Consultant, City of Albertslund We asked leading city representatives and ...
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