here are some points in addition to the emails .

the materials 1-4 will be sent via retransfer, as they are too data -heavy for this site.

1. Broschure
2. Installation manual system
3. Explanation node connectors
4. Installation manual LED batten

Installation video TECTON track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9mu0ZbyNcQ

Installation video TECTON LED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN2c-1F4SYs

Main Europe market requirements for trunking:

1. Flexibility in terms of batten and lighting modules (as spot lights, speakers, etc.) positioning on the track (=trunking)
2. Possibility to integration many functionalities in the system as: Safety lighting, emergency lighting, spot lights, other luminaires, speakers, video cameras
3. Ability to adapt easy on changing illumination task – so easy rebuilding of the light line
4. Self-explaining and really fast installation
5. Less parts needed to build up the light line (best case: trunking and luminaire, worst case: trunking, trunking connector, luminaire, optic, end caps trunking, etc.)
6. Fast return on invest, especially for LED light lines àso an attractive price is also really important
7. Especially for supermarket also a common design language for the entire range is highly required
8. Ability to integrate also external and foreign elements as sensors without high effort
9. Track shall also provide power to other elements
10. System approach like a modular toolbox which enables easy increase or reduction of functions and features for the track and light leve

TECTON strength today:

1. 100% flexibility in positioning the battens and lighting modules on the track – due to the intelligent through wiring concept
2. High ability to integrate many functionalities in the system – due to the 11 poles through wiring
3. Due to the fact that always 11 poles in the track future proofness is given – poles which don’t needed today could be important tomorrow
4. Ability to adapt the system easily to changing applications due to the intelligent locking system between track and luminaire or lighting module
5. Wide portfolio: entire LED range, dedicated safety & emergency luminaires, four dedicated spot light families and many other luminaires can be mounted on TECTON
6. Intercompatibility between all luminaires and lighting modules which are available for TECTON or can be installed on TECTON

Limitations of TECTON – to follow soon

Are the fortunes of design on the rise in Silicon Valley? A resounding yes, says John Maeda, design partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. During a presentation at South By Southwest 2015 on Sunday, Maeda argued that not only is Silicon Valley taking design more seriously; design is actually taking over. Here are four key reasons why the most successful tech companies of the future will really be design companies.

Read the complete article at FastCompany Co.Design:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3043740/4-reasons-why-design-is-taking-over-silicon-valley

Joseph Pine, Author of The Experience Economy and Co-Founder, Strategic Horizons B. Joseph Pine II is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor to Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups alike. He is an award-winning author and the father of the ideology of Experience Economy. His best-selling books are acclaimed by Financial Times, and TIME Magazine. He is the co-founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings. Mr. Pine and his partner James H. Gilmore wrote the best-selling book The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage, which demonstrates how goods and services are no longer enough; what companies must offer today are experiences – memorable events that engage each customer in an inherently personal way. Published in fifteen languages and named one of the 100 best business books of all time by 800ceoread, in 2011 The Experience Economy came out for the first time in paperback as an Updated Edition with new ideas, new frameworks, and many, many new exemplars. Mr. Pine also published in 2011, with Kim C. Korn as coauthor, Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier, on how to use digital technology to stage experiences that fuse the real and the virtual. At its core is a new framework called the Multiverse that builds on the fundamental nature of the created universe – time, space, and matter – by showing how digital technology flips each of these dimensions on their head to create new worlds, first in our imagination and then in our experience.

ideanuxsummit.com

Friday, 20 February 2015, 4:00 pm

ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Christinenstr. 18-19 (Pfefferberg), 10119 Berlin

BACKGROUND

The modern office represents a space where knowledge is assembled, shared and generated in temporary constellations of changing work groups. These loose networks often comprise people with different cultural backgrounds, experiences and expertise. The office space needs to offer specific qualities to help cultivate these differences and to strengthen the efficiency and wellbeing of the knowledge worker. Innovative lighting solutions for contemporary office environments are an absolute necessity today. But how does light influence the quality of office work? ANCB and Zumtobel initiated a global research study on light and lighting in the contemporary office environment. Five research teams of universities from Australia, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia have been involved in the study. The goal of the study was to understand diverse lighting situations around the globe and their potential for innovation. Ten office spaces in Sydney, Medellín, Berlin, Lagos and Manila were analyzed. One work environment per city was chosen by a jury based on itsvisionary potential to be investigated further during a professional workshop week in Berlin. The workshop week will close with this symposium.

SYMPOSIUM

The symposium will aim to highlight different aspects of the complex interrelations between light, space, work performance, wellbeing and productivity, taking into account the technological, creative, geographic and psychological aspects. It invites international experts as well as the public to discuss questions concerned with: how can we plan integrative lighting concepts for workspaces effectively within our current planning processes? What is the effect of light on the employee of the future?  How do we perceive our spatial work environment through lighting layouts? The challenges and projects of the research will be introduced as well as the refinement towards a local-orientated response during the workshop week. To finish off, the winner of the research workshop week will be announced, followed by the exhibition opening with the finalists projects.

Documentation on the process and workshop of this unique global research collaboration can be found at: www.lightlive.com/en/globalworkspaces

ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory

Venice Biennale

9 May – 22 November 2015

http://www.oca.no/venice-biennale/venice-biennale-2015.1

Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) is proud to announce that Norway´s contribution to the 56^th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in 2015, will be developed by the artist Camille Norment. The project, which will take place in the Nordic Pavilion, will be inspired by states of dissonance – sonic, cultural and individual. The artist will explore the socio-political encoding of sound historically and in the present from a critical perspective as well as reflect upon dissonance as a space for the creation of new and affirmative thinking. As Norment comments: ‘Sound, like experience is fleeting, but it leaves traces in the mind and in the body. As such it is historical and a viable tool for anticipating what is to come.’ The project is curated by OCA´s Director Katya García-Antón, with the collaboration of Antonio Cataldo, Senior Programmer at OCA. It is commissioned and organised by Office for Contemporary Art Norway.

Camille Norment´s practice includes sound, installation, light sculptures, drawing, performance and video and draws from the artist´s experience in music, dance and the arts. Her research often crosses disciplines and is currently exploring the interconnections between sound, myth, taboo and science within the framework of art and history. Norment creates couplings of conceptual and formal inquiries in response to selected socio-cultural phenomena. Her work is largely concerned with creating experience through the relationship between the object/space and the body of the viewer, and with the way the body is inscribed with meaning through its negotiation with its surroundings. It seeks to engage the viewer as a physical and psychological participant in the work, and as such, is interested in creating experiences that are both somatic and cognitive.

While also highly concerned with aesthetic experience, Norment’s practice simultaneously spans the thresholds of the social and the political. Raising questions around race and gender, the artist excavates aspects of our history that have either been forgotten or repressed, as well as looks towards new forms of suppression that may be germinating in the near future.

The official Norwegian contribution to the 56th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia is funded by OCA. Details about additional sponsorships and funding is forthcoming.

For more information, please contact OCA’s Tara Ishizuka Hassel.

Your trust. Olafur Eliasson

Kunsthalle Mannheim

21.11.2014 – 15.02.2015

http://www.kunsthalle-mannheim.de/

Olafur Eliasson is known for his use of colour, light and movement in his intense, experiential, and expansive installations. Over the past year his “Starbrick” has cast a spell over visitors – its 35 light modules suspended, cloud-like, in the majestic domed hall of the Kunsthalle Mannheim’s Jugendstil-Building. With the exhibition “Your trust”, the Kunsthalle again presents an artist who has not been exhibited in south-western Germany for 13 years. “Your trust”focuses on the spatial experience of colour and light. The show provides an insight into the world of one of the most important international contemporary artists. At the same time it is an invitation to visitors to become more consciously aware of their own perception and understanding.

New York Light in Flatiron Plaza

New York Light, an animated light structure realized in collaboration with Tillotson Design Associates, bengal.fierro, Silman & Associates, Walsh Electrical Contractors, and Naho Kubota. Thank you to the great team who worked on it, and to the organizers, Flatiron 23rd Street Partnership and the Van Alen Institute.

David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material 

January 30–May 31, 2015

Haus der Kunst
Prinzregentenstr. 1
80538 Munich
Germany

www.hausderkunst.de

The distinctive work of architect David Adjaye (b. 1966) comprises approximately 50 built projects—from museums to libraries, private houses to social housing, urban master plans to college campuses, pavilions for artists and children’s playgrounds. His most recent commissions include the design of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., as well as the National Museum of Slavery and Freedom in Cape Coast, Ghana.

The early buildings of the Ghanaian-British architect, who studied in London at the Royal College of Art, were private commissions and often developed in collaboration with artist friends, including the homes he designed for Chris Ofili, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Dinos Chapman, Lorna Simpson and James Casebere, amongst others.

Adjaye’s private structures play with the contrast between hermetically sealed fronts and unexpectedly generous openings in the back, thereby accommodating the owners’ need for a private retreat. In contrast, as open and permeable structures, his public buildings are socially effective architecture. Unlike structures of pure functionalism and iconic monumentality, they approach their users rather than patronizing them. Adjaye often uses materials that change color through their exposure to light, take on different textures due to varying weather conditions or provoke viewers to touch them because of their distinctive tactile qualities. They thereby also engage sensually in a dialogue with their audience.

The exhibition examines more than 30 projects through drawings, models, installations, photographs, videos, and material fragments. The survey exhibition, the most extensive of Adjaye’s career, is organized by Haus der Kunst and Art Institute of Chicago. It is curated by Okwui Enwezor, director of Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Zoë Ryan, chair and John H. Bryan Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The catalog, edited by Okwui Enwezor and Zoë Ryan, includes contributions by David Adjaye, Peter Allison, Andrea Phillips and Mabel Wilson.

Supported by Ford Foundation; Tony & Elham Salame, Aishti Foundation; Michael Hue-Williams, Albion Barn; East Deck; Design Indaba; Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann; Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann; Jürg Zumtobel, and Zumtobel.

Media partner: domus – German edition, PIN-UP

DOMUS
An installation by D.V. Rogers and team at Materials & Applications, Los Angeles
DOMUS is experimental anti-seismic architecture incorporating spatialised seismic sound and light that challenges our response to and perception of earthquakes.

On view until Spring 2015

http://emanate.org/blog/exhibit/domus-by-dv-rogers/

Future Cities Lab at the the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

http://www.ybca.org/lightswarm

http://www.future-cities-lab.net/

Lightswarm is an interactive light installation in a state of perpetual flux. Responding to sounds harvested from the YBCA grand lobby and the surrounding city, the site-specific artwork activates the south facing façade with playful swarms of light. During the day filtered sunlight produces ever-changing patterns of shadow, while in the evening the façade is transformed in a dynamic electro-luminescent composition visible from the interior lobby, the garden and the city beyond. Sound sensing spiders, attached directly to individual glass panels in the lobby, transform the facade into what the artists call, “… urban sensors – instruments to sense the city, visualize its auditory pulse, and amplify its latent energies into cascades of light.” Real-time data collected from these sensors is used to inform a swarming algorithm which guides patterns of streaming light. The result is a new form artificially intelligent façade: a smart surface that can sense, compute, respond and interact with its surroundings. Lightswarm consists of 430 unique suspended light modules that can individually change their intensity and color. Each module was created from 3d-printed components, custom electronic elements, addressable LED strips, and laser-cut skins made out of recyclable PET plastic and synthetic paper.

#ybca #lightswarm #futurecitieslab