Lights in Goa

Lights In Goa 2024

“LIGHTS IN GOA” is an educational seminar and workshop series.
Of the previous six editions, five were held in Goa and one in the City of Bengaluru.
We have in 2011 successfully conducted a one-week long Lighting Design Workshop, similar to the one in Alingsas Sweden.

This Year we have moved the action to Mumbai, which has a large concentration of Design Professionals as well as a significant concentration of Builders and Developers, hoteliers and Industrialists who have to be sensitized and educated on Good lighting Practices.

These, added with Design students and the Lighting Industry representatives will constitute the Audience.

 

The Theme for this LIG is “TECHNOLOGY – BY HUMANS, FOR HUMANS!”

 

We are in a Technology driven world. However, Design is a Human enterprise.
It amounts to application of knowledge and ingenuity to resolve human needs or elevate human experiences.

 

Architectural Lighting Design, a knowledge-based discipline of design has over the years faced many disruptions due to technology and one must constantly be informed and be able to gauge the relevance of the technology to the task at hand, to implement it for the desired results.

 

Today one sees a profusion of installations that have relied on the technology to dictate the design intent without a context.

 

A point in case is the indiscriminate use of the RGB technology to turn the most important of spaces into Disney land.

 

Let us then celebrate Technology, as it is the way of the Future.
However, let us focus on Humanity, for whom this is all designed and who also designs and defines it.


The lectures will be informative about technology and innovations as also about its applications and case studies.


How has the designer risen above the technology to use it succinctly to write his own interpretation of the situation, agreeable or stirring to most, rising above the mere mathematics and algorithms, to deliver a technology laden solution with the most obvious human interpretation.

About KJS EVENTS LLP

Lights in Goa is run by KJS Events LLP, the directors being Lighting Designer-Architect Kapil Surlakar, Engineer-Entrepreneur James Andrade of James Electricals & Conservation Architect Sacheen Pai Raikar, all based in Goa.

 

“Lights in Goa” was initiated in 2010 to spread the word on good practices in Architectural Lighting Design and to bring the industry in India and the surrounding nations, abreast with the latest design trends and technologies.

 


The first six editions were held in Goa between 2010 & 2019 and the format adopted was seminars & mini workshops to allow participants a hands-on experience of best practices in lighting design.

 

The 2011 edition was a full scale five day PLDA workshop, with six sites in Panaji Goa, designed and installed, followed by seminars by leading design professionals on the last day.


The Fourth edition in 2015, Lights in Goa shifted venue to Bengaluru, the Garden City and a preferred IT destination, to take the educational initiative of good practices in Lighting Design to a larger receptive audience that a metro city could deliver.


Lights in Goa returned to home base Goa in its 2017 & 2019 editions to reinforce the USP of its very conception, The Spread & Share of the Knowledge of Lighting. Mini-workshops enhanced the seminar perception for all delegates as is the forte of LIG seminars. An impressive array of Speakers were lined up to achieve a game-changing experience.