2010-2011 EDITION
THEME : LIGHT IT FOR HUMANITY

Detailed description of the theme

Grants

Schedule

Jury

Evaluation criteria

Participation criteria

Inscription form

Questions?

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Detailed description of the theme

FRIENDLY PUBLIC LIGHTING: SERVING THE WORLD POPULATION

The Context
The need for public lighting is constantly evolving on the planet and follows the phenomenon of urban development. If, in 1800, only 2 % of the world population lived in urban areas, today, the urban population equals and will soon exceed the rural population in the world. If, until the mid-twentieth century, the majority of the world's urban population was concentrated in developed areas of North America and Europe, urban growth has now shifted to development areas. You should know that by 2030, over 80 % of the global urban population is expected to be concentrated in Asia, Africa as well as in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Where can we find users of street lighting? Today, the majority of the world's urban population resides in small and medium towns and most city dwellers live in smaller cities. About 16 % of city dwellers live in cities of more than five million inhabitants. An important data indicates that in 2007, over 30 % of the world's urban population - one billion people - lived in shanty towns, 90 % of them located in development areas. These findings indicate that one out of three city dweller lives in a shanty town.

More and more frequently, natural disasters disrupt entire, and often densely populated, regions; populations see their infrastructure destroyed and must live through a lengthy rebuilding process. These people then have to rely on public lighting as a light source for their safety, their economic lives and their collective activities. Let’s not forget that the most heavily populated areas are located in the warmer regions of the planet; where people live a lot at night when the temperature is milder.

For all those people deprived of a reliable source of energy and light, lighting can ensure wealth for all.

Not just a dream

It is exciting to imagine that public lighting can be a source of conviviality, of procurement, and a means to share lighting as a resource; it can become an anchorage in the city, a gathering point for the community. In fact, it is possible to assign to outdoor lighting the social role of designing strategic sites for "light sources" - streets, squares, intersections, outdoor markets, parks. As the fountain where people meet to draw water, public lighting can play the same role and provide other gathering points.

Design is at the service of man. Never was an assertion more justified then now. Access to a light source is a valuable asset to any community. We need only note that in less than ten years, the cell phone has revolutionized communications in all countries and especially in developing countries. We can see changes in our habits and our outlook on the nature of public lighting. It is within this social / economic / environmental context that the theme Light it for Humanity / L'humanité mise en lumière proposes to change the fate of many populations in the world through your creative solution, to offer comfort, safety, sustainability and quality of public lighting to people that are deprived of it or who rarely enjoy it. With this contest we want to question our traditional ways to provide lighting to the greatest number of people.

The Contest

With this contest, the CLU Foundation wishes to give new meaning to public lighting and provoke the emergence of sensitivity to the need of mankind to benefit from the available light, to share and take ownership. The boundaries between street lighting and the user can disappear to become the service point of luminous energy to the whole community. Public lighting is a response to the needs of human beings, and your solutions will be the answer.

The challenge this year is to design lighting solutions that can be shared and meet the most daring expectations:

• A central gathering point;
• A source and connection accessible to the entire community;
• A realization that supports the vitality of social exchange;
• A viable alternative to the use of other fuels (gasoline, wood, etc.);
• An economical design with regard to materials and components (3R), that is also aesthetically and culturally meaningful.

These guidelines are provided to get you started. Send us your dreams and the CLU Foundation will be honored to receive them.

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Grants

The grants will be awarded based on merit by the Philips Lumec CLU committee. This committee is composed of engaged professionals from within the Quebec community of creators and designers and aims social harmony by the quality of the built environment. Laureates will be selected from all received applications. The 2008-2009 edition includes three (3) prizes distributed as follow :

• First Prize 2 500$ or a 12 weeks training course* with the industrial design and engineering teams of Philips Lumec
• Second Prize 1 500$
• Third Prize 1 000$
• * The training course is remunerated. Conditions may apply.

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Schedule

Launch of the 2010-2011 Edition: January 10^th, 2011
Date for submission: May 2^nd, 2011, 5p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)
Jury Session: May 25^th, 2011
Laureates Announcement: June 7^th, 2011 at Mission Design, Montreal; June 8^th on our website

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Jury

Industrial design by trade, Alexandre has completed a Master in Applied Sciences specialized in Design and Complexity at University of Montreal. Alexandre has taken part in many innovative ecoconception research projects with groups such as Metamorphose and Meta-cycle research group. He has well worked at the Total Tool design studio in Milano, Italy, where he developed scenarios concerning the ecological use of products and services for international clients like IKEA, AutoGrill and 3M. In the past years, Alexandre has become a sustainable development advisor at the Institut de développement de produits and has collaborated with Quebec´s manufacturing companies, to help them take into account the environmental impact of a product as they are creating it.

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Roger Parent has been involved in the entertainment industry since the early seventies. He has worked on over 5,000 shows (in America, Europe and Asia) as Technical Director, Designer or Producer. In the last twenty years, he has collaborated as Executive Producer to secure the Cirque du Soleil's presence in Las Vegas for both Nouvelle Experience at the Mirage and at Treasure Island (Mystère). He was also in charge of production for Alegria, Saltimbanco and Fascination in North America and Japan. Since his departure from Cirque du Soleil in 1994, Roger has worked on several concepts for Caesars, MGM and Luxor. His talent was expressed with Miralda (from Spain) in Germany at the Expo 2000 Food Pavilion and with François Confino in France, England, Australia and Japan on spectacular exhibitions. He helped to build a theater in Maui and produced ‘Ulalena; acclaimed by visitors and Hawaiians as «a riveting show on the story and mythology of the Hawaiian Islands». With long term collaborator Robert Massicotte, he worked on the Black and Blue World Tour of the Backstreet Boys. Roger Parent lives and works in Montréal, Canada where he heads Réalisations.net.

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Faber Cayouette is an Architect and Landscape Architect. He completed his education as an architectural technician in 1983 at College de Rimouski. In 1991, he obtained his B.A. in architecture from the University Laval faculty of architecture. He was then employed at the company Gauthier Guité Roy in Québec and Daoust Lestage in Montréal as a designer for several projects integrating architecture, landscape and urban design, including the first phase of the casino in the Outaouais region and the redevelopment of Parliament Hill in the city of Québec.

For two years he was an associate for the Quartier International de Montréal (QIM) project, and then a consultant for four years. As assistant designer, he participated in every step of the project for overall layout, as well as in the management of the huge worksite, including every single one of the design elements, such as the «Guimard entrance» at Square Victoria and Jean-Paul Riopelle’s fountain La Joute (The Joust). In 2003, he joined the Cardinal Hardy’s Group multidisciplinary team as associate, workshop manager and project manager. He’s now associated with the firm STGM Architects in the office of Montreal.

With 25 years experience in landscape architecture and urban design, he became a senior member of AAPQ as a landscape architect, as well as of the CSLA in 2009. Passionate about urban light scenography and industrial design, he was president of the CLU Foundation from 2004 to May 2010.

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Industrial Designer by profession, Guy completed his studies at the CÉGEP du Vieux Montréal and at the Faculty of Industrial Design of the University of Montreal. He has worked in the outdoor lighting industry for more than 25 years now and has helped Philips Lumec to develop many and of the brand’s most popular products such as the Candela, the Optima, the Ancestra, the Transit, the Opticon, the Visualume and the Leonis light fixtures, as well as the Oval and the Domus product families. Guy has as well been an active member of the Board of the ADIQ for the past two years and has given himself the mandate to represent the industrial designers working in the industry.

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With an educational background of Industrial Designer and 15 years experience in Philips Lighting, Niels Van Duinen (1965, Dutch citizen) came in 2008 to the United States after Philips’ acquisition of Genlyte. Started as Post-Merger Integration Marketing Manager, Niels focused on connecting and enabling a multi-cultural and interregional marketing network while realizing post-merger business objectives. As chairman of Philips’ Global (LED) Portfolio Team, Niels drives the LED technology transition within an international network of Philips Professional Luminaires companies. Before Niels came to the Unites States, he held the position of Philips’ National Director of Marketing Professional Lighting in Paris, France, implementing a customer value driven marketing process around business segments and customer clusters. In his preceding role as Manager Luminaires Middle East, he spend five years in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, changing core-business from commodity trade to a fast-growing and profitable high end lighting solutions. Niels Van Duinen started his career at Philips as Product Designer and European Product Creation Manager Architectural Urban Lighting.

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Jean-François Simard has been working for Philips Lumec, now a division of Philips Electronics, for over 27 years. He has been serving as president and CEO for the past 17 years. Bachelor in Industrial Design from the University of Montreal, Jean-François has always taken time to be involved in many groups and associations closely related to his field of expertise. He is a member of the IESNA (Illuminating Engineering Society of North America), a society recognized in the community of professional lighting, and is involved on several of its committees: Environmental Committee and is also active in the Cut-off Committee. In the IESNA, he is also involved in the Roadway Committee which examines and analyses current practices, tunnels and training. Jean-François also takes time, and that since 1997, to work within the IDA (International Dark Sky Association), a nonprofit organization that fights against light pollution around the world, as a member of the Board of Directors and also as a founding actor of the local IDA. Despite his very busy schedule and his management responsibilities as CEO of Philips Lumec for many years, he still finds time to get involved in another organization: he is a partner and member of the Board of Directors of the Technology Greenhouse & Link Institute at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a world leader in academic research and education on lighting.

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Evaluation criteria

ESTHETIC MERIT
Object in general; proportions (global quality);
Materials, innovation and assembling details;
Form versus function;
Color, rendering and image or marketing impact.

TECHNOLOGICAL MERIT
Object in general; form versus technology;
Functionality and handling methods;
Challenge and fabrication solution;
Technical mechanical and instructional innovations.

ENVIRONMENTAL MERIT
Solutions integrating environmental sensibility, functionality and respect of natural habitats;
Autonomy or low energy consumption;
A strive to reduce lighting pollution integrating the "dark sky" norms;
LEED project or a preoccupation to recycling and/or use of non-polluting components.

THEORETICAL MERIT
Originality of the subject;
Historical value and bibliographical research;
Writing quality and educational approach;
Practical application.

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Participation criteria

The CLU Foundation aims excellence by encouraging conscious integration of the plastic quality of the products, technical advancements in exterior lighting and environmental respect. The 2010-2011 program includes three (3) prizes that will be awarded for the projects that meet the following general criteria:

• Students, interns or individuals involved in a domain related to exterior lighting.
• Upcoming professional practices – must have five (5) years or less experience and not more than five (5) employees for a firm project or as an individual.
• The project must clearly demonstrate its level of innovation in using light as a phenomenon, audacity in its technical choices and environmental respect in determining their goals or design criteria.
• As a suggestion, projects may refer to the following subjects:
  • Layout of public exterior spaces;
  • Objects or luminous systems for these spaces;
  • Advancement of the general knowledge concerning exterior lighting;
  • Development of the collective consciousness pertaining to a quality exterior lighting;
• The selected projects must be in the last three (3) years.

These applications must include the following information and presented according to the indicated format:

Inscription Form
The inscription form (Adobe Acrobat .PDF only) must include;

Graphic Material – Project Description
The pdf document must include a maximum of two (2) pages according to the following requirements:

• The document must be anonymous and contain no information to identify the designers.
• The pages must be in a horizontal (landscape) and 11’’ x 17’’ format. The pages could be designed to be shown separately or one next to the other.
• The document must be in French or English only.
• The document must include a brief project description of 150 words maximum.
• The project name must be shown at the bottom right corner of every page of the document (Font: ARIAL (or equivalent) Size: 10 POINTS).
• The pdf document has to be named according to the following nomenclature LAST NAME_FIRSTNAME(team representative)_PROJECT NAME.pdf. You have to submit only one (1) pdf document that includes the two (2) pages of your project. The pdf document has to be in 300 dpi.
• You have to submit your pdf document on our website at the same time as you complete the Inscription Form (consult the Inscription Form section below).
• You have to submit your project before 5 p.m. on May 2^nd, 2011 (Eastern Standard Time).

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Inscription Form

THE SUBMISSION DATE WAS MAY 2^ND 2011, 5PM (EASTERN STANDARD TIME). THE LAUREATES ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE JUNE 7^TH 2011 AT MISSION DESIGN ANNUAL MEETING IN MONTREAL. THE NAME OF THE LAUREATES WILL BE PUBLISHED ON OUR WEBSITE ON JUNE 8^TH.

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Questions?

For any questions, you can contact us at: Mail: lumec.marketing@philips.com
Telephone : 450-430-7040, ext. 200