Тема конкурса этого года звучит как «Граница – освещение внешнего и внутреннего пространства» (INTERFACE. Lighting at the edge: between built and unbuilt environments).
Участникам следует подумать над ответами на следующие вопросы: как сильно различаются наружное и внутреннее освещение? как можно объединить их в одну систему? что схожего между ними? как с помощью света можно обозначить переход из внутреннего пространства во внешнее? Организаторы ждут свежие и оригинальные концепции.
Imagine lighting in areas of transition where these interfaces, through their exchange of functions, provide added value and become "space events" or "spatial objects", which contribute to the richness of the territories.
This year’s participants are asked to explore transformative potentials and to define unique lighting innovations that celebrate the activities of both the built and unbuilt communities. Incorporating the concepts of contact, transparency, transition, threshold, limits, dark/light, natural/artificial, the interface focuses on the spatial interactions influenced by exchanges between one and the other, and thereby distinguishing the two adjacent spaces.
The boundaries between spaces, places and states are not straightforward. There are areas where we are situated in neither one nor the other, but rather in a third place with its own conditions. This third place, like an ecotone which serves as an ecological transition zone between two ecosystems, offers conditions raising its own questions, and hopefully, its own answers.
Are indoor and outdoor lighting solutions so radically different? How could they be integrated into a single system? What concepts can they share? How can light be used to transform the experience of moving from inside to outside? We are looking for smart, edgy, out of the box ideas that will redefine how these interfacing areas are experienced, perceived and used through light.