1st PRIZE –$ 2,500

Project: LightPot
Laureate: Ninad V. Jogdand
Title: Young professional
Place: Pune, India

Jury’s Comment
The proposed solution LightPot takes into account complex concepts such as the industrial context and the urban poverty in developing countries. This is an interesting example of transforming a constraint into a solution. In addition to having submitted a draft of a higher difficulty level, Mr Jogdand seized an opportunity by reusing the energy generated on site for other purposes.

Interview with 1st prize winner of the CLU Foundation contest
Ninad Jogdand, an architect and an emerging lighting designer from Pune in West India, seduced the judges at the 6th annual CLU Foundation contest with his project entitled LightPot. Find out what winning the first prize of this prestigious contest means to him, and also his thoughtful vision as far as the future of urban lighting is concerned.

2nd PRIZE – $ 1,500

Project: Buoyant Light
Laureates: Claire Lubell and Virginia Fernandez
Title: Students
Place: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Jury’s Comment
The project entitled Byoyant Light unveils a community that is often left to itself: the Nordic region. The illustrated idea combines the human and his environment, demonstrating an excellent example of humanity. The jury would like to congratulate Miss Lubell and Fernandez for the efforts they put into their theoretical and technical research.

Interview with 2nd prize winners of the CLU Foundation contest
Two Canadian undergraduate students, Claire Lubell and Virginia Fernandez receive high praise and win 2nd prize in the CLU Foundation contest. The project entitled Buoyant Light unveils a community that is often left to itself: the Nordic region. The illustrated idea combines the human and his environment, demonstrating an excellent example of humanity. The jury would like to congratulate Miss Lubell and Fernandez for the efforts they put into their theoretical and technical research.

3rd PRIZE – $ 1,000

Project: Sensible Light
Laureate: Daekwon Park
Title: Young professional
Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Jury’s Comment
What has particularly charmed the judges on this project is the reinterpretation of evenings around a campfire. Let us remember that not so long ago, the ancestors of a community shared their stories with the next generation around this imperishable source of light. The aspects of interactivity, communication and community are well represented in this project entitled Light Sensitive, in addition to being an interesting translation of our 2010-2011 thematic.

Promising designer and architect wins 3rd prize of the CLU Foundation contest
Daekwon Park, a young professional and the 3rd prize laureate of the CLU Foundation contest charmed the judges with his reinterpretation of evenings around a campfire in his project entitled Sensible Light. Find out about this creative designer/architect, his original project and his thoughtful vision on the future of urban lighting.

ORIGINALITY MERIT

Project: Survivances
Laureate: Elodie Stephan
Title: Young professional
Place: Montreuil, Île-de-France, France

Jury’s Comment
Members of the jury wish to emphasize the originality of the project entitled Survivances. Miss Stephan presents a solution which is inspired from the functioning of living creatures in order to better incorporate human technologies. This is a new approach in how to see and estimate the value of nature.

Interview with Originality Merit winner of the CLU Foundation contest
Interview with Elodie Stephan; a young French independant designer and award recepient of the CLU Foundation contest’s Original Distinction Prize.