Guerrilla Lighting

After much planning and organisation the Guerrilla Lighting Manchester, 2009 Event took place on 1st December 2009.

Update: Read more and view pictures in this Guerrilla Lighting Manchester PDF presentation and view the gallery

The Guerrillas assembled at BDP’s Ducie Street offices from 18:00 for final briefing before setting off for the planned target sites.  The weather didn’t  let us down and can only be described as a freezing cold, wet evening, but thankfully this didn’t put the guests off and they turned out in force.

Site 1 on Beaver Street brought many a giggle as the entrance to the car park was is in use 24 hours, so the final lights in the road saw people dashing around to put them in place to avoid them being crushed by a car.

Site 2 Railway Arches; an extremely dark unwelcoming area of the city became a bright, vibrant and somewhat inviting place to be, once the Guerrillas had brought some fantastic light to this area.

And finally, Site 3 the TCS Car Park on Ducie Street.  By now its getting late and everyone is cold, but in surprisingly fantastic spirits.  Everyone into position on the various levels, lights in place, claxon sounds – strike a pose (and hold it, for what seems like an age).

Well done to everyone who took place, we certainly feel this event was a huge success and the final photographs certainly prove this.

Congratulations!!

After the award winning success of the previous Manchester Guerrilla Lighting event in 2006 and the following boom of events around the world Guerrilla lighting has returned to Manchester.

Guerrilla lighting is a war on bad lighting, guerrilla lighting is a protest against wasteful use of light, but most of all, guerrilla lighting is about having fun and raising the awareness of the power of light.

BDP Lighting would like to invite you to this year’s event taking place on the 1^st of December commencing at our Manchester studio with a brief presentation, guerrilla lighting and an after party at a nearby venue for everyone to celebrate the success of our evening.

…we hope to see you there.

Please RSVP (philip@guerrillalighting.net) by 17^th of November as places are limited.

Guerrilla Lighting event will be organized for the first time in Tampere. The starting point of the guerrilla march is from the main entrance of Frenckell office building on September 17th at 20:00.

Guerrilla Lighting Event is organized by lighting design students from TAMK School of Art and Media, headed by lighting designers BA Annukka Larsen and BA Antti Hiltunen.

The objective of this event is to raise discussion on city lighting, especially the poor maintenance. Young lighting design students have selected four targets for illumination in Tampere and also made designs for each one.
Event is organized in co-operation with Super Mukava design store and it is a part of a new DesignOnTampere –happening. www.designontampere.com

Event was a success!

Pictures from the event:

http://designontampere.blogspot.com/2009/09/guerrilla-lighting-tampere-2009.html

Video: http://media.almamedia.fi/id/158544.asx

Gerillanın yeni hedefi, 10 Ekim 2009′da İstanbul, Türkiye. Ayrıntılar için bizi takip edin, ya da alttaki linki ziyaret edin.

Gerilla olarak kayıt olmak için, lütfen emre@guerrillalighting.net adresine mail atın.

The next target for Guerrilla is Istanbul, Turkey on the 10th October 2009. More information to follow, or visit the link below.

To register to be a Guerrilla, please email emre@guerrillalighting.net.

http://pldturkiye.com/pld-turkiye-etkinlikleri/guerrilla-lighting-istanbul/

Final images of Guerrilla Lighting Belfast.

All the images are available in the Gallery section on the right.

Special thanks to all the Guerrillas and our supporters University of Ulster and Queen’s University Belfast.

Thanks also to our sponsors: iGuzzini, Chroma Lighting, Concord Lighting, Zumtobel, Thorn, ECI Lighting, Urbis, NMK / DesignPlan Lighting, Philips and Osram.

We think this video captures the mood of the event perfectly. Filmed and edited by Brain Grenade Digital Creative. Special thanks to Glenn Whorrall.

Many thanks to everyone involved in last night’s Guerrilla Lighting in Belfast: volunteer guerrillas, the sponsors and supporters and BDP. 

Images will be posted soon…

Many thanks to RTÉ and the producers of Eco-Eye.
(c) All RTÉ Television http://www.rte.ie/tv/ecoeye

Guerrilla LIGHTWAVE on 22nd January 2009 will be the second time we’ve struck Dublin in just a few months. We’re targeting Ulster Bank’s Group Centre, Trinity College West Front and St Mark’s Church.

First Guerrilla Lighting Event in Finland took place in City of Jyväskylä on 30.9. and second in Helsinki on 1.10.2008! Brilliant results!

Head Guerrilla: Martin Lupton. Guerrilla designers: Antti Hiltunen and Juho Strömmer. Backup force: Annukka Larsen, City of Jyväskylä. More pictures in Gallery and from: http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/yhdyskuntatoimi/cityoflight/fi/valoon2008/guerilla