The First Rule of Light Club... Earlier this year, Martin Lupton, Katia Kolovea and Annukka Larsen launched Light Club: a virtual meeting place for the lighting community on newly launched social media platform, Clubhouse. Here, they explain the rules of Light Club.
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lubhouse is an audio-only social media platform
about the medium that we are all so passionate about.
smartphone or tablet. It launched on iPhone and
and Inspiration based sessions. At the time of writing, Light Club
that is intended to be primarily accessed via your recently became available on Android and, although
it was “exclusive” and invite-only when it started, there now
seems to be plenty of invitations available to anyone who wants them. Within the Clubhouse environment there are “rooms” that are created for the discussion of all topics imaginable -
from Architecture to Social Media tips to Bitcoins and NFT’s.
About six months ago Annukka Larsen of WSP Finland, Katia Kolovea of Archifos and Martin Lupton of Light Collective began hosting Light Club - a one-hour open session held every Wednesday at
2.30pm UK time, for people to get together and talk about light. Designed to be a place to share your passion for light, lighting
design, light and architecture, light and art, light and everything, the aim of Light Club is to get inspired, provide some value, some knowledge, create opportunities for new connections and, most importantly, have some fun discussing light
during the one hour the audience spends in Light Club.
Everyone is welcome in Light Club - manufacturers, designers, architects, artists, product designers, people from live events or theatre, basically anyone who has a passion for light is welcome. We always welcome people who are not in the
lighting industry and found our online room by luck and we empower them to connect with each other and learn more
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The Light Club Programme moves between Interviews, Networking, had completed eight Interviews, seven Networking sessions, and seven Inspiration sessions with audiences ranging between 3050 people each time, joining and contributing from all over the
world including Mexico, USA, India, the Middle East and Europe. Some of the most popular sessions are the interviews, which
always give the audience a chance to come on stage and ask their
own questions. Interviews so far have included professionals based around the world with some fantastic insights into their specific niches and worlds of lighting and their associated professions. The interview series started with the Belgium-based lighting
designer, Koert Vermeulen, Principal of ACTLD, followed by UK-
based architect Jason Boyle, who has the fascinating role of Nuclear Architect at Sellafield. In contrast, for the third interview, the
Greek-based Architectural Visualisation Artist, Nikos Nikolopoulos, Creative Director and Educator at creativelighting.co gave us
some insights into his approach to lighting as a key element of
his narrative approach to visualisation. Insights from one of the
leading voices on light and health, the Researcher and Designer, Dr. Shelley James, founder at Age of Light Innovations Group was next. The whole list of interviewees includes Isabel Villar, Senior Lighting Designer at White Arkitekter; Matt Waring, the
Editor of arc magazine, Tom Acciarini, maker, manufacturer,
