Will AI Redesign the Lighting Profession? Invitation to do a provocation alongside Iain Macrae and Inessa Demidova to kick off discussions exploring the future of the lighting industry in relation to AI. To mark the opening of an exhibition at Arup on New Artificial Intelligence - Enabling Machines to Learn. The exhibition aims to raise awareness of what artificial intelligence with machine learning is today, looking at its challenges and promises for tomorrow and what it means for the individual, industry and society at large.

Invited to attend a 5 day Teachers of Lighting Workshop organised by the IES. This intensive programme provided a great opportunity for cross Atlantic fertilisation of teaching and research ideas. Subsequently students from the University of Oklahoma (with Dr Alana Pulay, Assistant Professor, Design, Housing and Merchandising), visited our Sky Dome and participated in UCL MSc Light and Lighting Dissertation research projects on the lighting of retail environments, changing rooms, texture in interiors and daylight perception.

 

With Longyu Guan, based on his PhD work, presenting the advantage of his new daylight metric which takes into account daylight in the volume, rather than just the horizontal plane which is the focus of traditional daylight metrics. This takes the essence of Kit Cuttle's Mean Room Surface Exitance, however adapts the concept to make it applicable to complex spaces with daylight, typical of modern architecture.

Educational Seminar in Lightfair International, San Diego, with Navaz Davoudian.

 

Responsible for the content, delivery and marking of a 20 credit Lighting Design Module, in the final year of BSc Product Design Engineering and BA Industrial Design and Technology at Brunel University.