Guerrilla Lighting

Last Saturday (12.12.09) a group consisting mostly of children aimed their torches at three targets in order to light up their own neighbourhood.

The neighbourhood with its surroundings are the former grounds and buildings of a mental hospital. The hospital was shut down in 1994 and the buildings were renovated into apartments after long debates in 2005.

The chosen targets consisted of the old administration building (not yet renovated), a group of trees and the old festival hall.

Big thanks to the Finnish ”City of Light”, Jyväskylä, for lending the torches!

See more pictures in the Miniguerrillas Gallery

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.

We’re very happy to be going to Stoke on Trent on the 19th November.

In collaboration with Renew North Staffordshire, we’re bringing Guerrilla Lighting to Burslem and Middleport in the historic Potteries area.

We need Guerrillas!

If you want to be involved, please email john@guerrillalighting.net.

Guerrilla Lighting Istanbul was a huge success.
Thanks to Emre Güneş from PLD Türkiye and Korhan Şişman from Planlux. All designs by Faruk Uyan.
Please see further images and videos in our gallery to the right.

Guerrilla Lighting İstanbul 2009 from Emre Güneş on Vimeo.

For more information see:

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

Guerrilla Lighting returned to Belfast for the second time on the night of Friday 25th September as part of Culture Night Belfast.

A team of architecture students from Queen’s University Belfast created transient lighting designs for five sites around the city’s cultural Cathedral Quarter.

Thank you to everyone involved, especially the students, Kresanna Aigner, Keith McAllister and Tim Kerr.

The results can be seen in the Belfast Redux gallery. Photographs by Nadine Stewart.

If you have any more photos, please email chantelle@guerrillalighting.net and we will add them to the gallery.

http://www.culturenightbelfast.com/

http://www.qub.ac.uk/

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

Check out the results from the gallery and also the following link:
www.skyway09.eu/program.php?e=01-06

A huge thank you to all our Partyzanckie for attending 3 nights of Guerrilla.

We’re in Torun, Poland for three Guerrilla events in the next few days as part of the Skyway 09 light festival.

Skyway 09 includes work from artists, scientists and designers from across Europe, with a number of installations, interventions and actions taking place across the medieval city, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The festival is part of Torun’s bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2016.

http://www.skyway09.eu/
http://www.torun2016.eu/

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…

Full before and after images available in the Gallery.

The event was sponsored by the Professional Lighting Design Association, Douglas Development Partnership and Luminaires Lighting Consultants. For more info, email chantelle@guerrillalighting.net.

Thanks to everyone involved.