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Lightfair to Offer Abundance of Programming

The 210 courses and seminars provide members of the AIA, ASID, IIDA, IESNA, and IFMA with continuing education credits.

Staff -- Interior Design, 3/9/2007 12:00:00 AM

Lightfair International 2007, which takes place this May 6–10 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, will offer the architectural and commercial lighting industry enormous and diverse educational opportunities. Seventy-two courses will present a total of more than 210 hours of programming.

Conference topics will address everything from lighting software to business fundamentals to product updates, as well as project case studies such as the Georgia Aquarium and the New York Times Building. Courses will be led by renowned industry experts; complete bios and descriptions are now available online.

Courses and seminars in this year’s curriculum provide AIA, ASID, IIDA, IESNA, and IFMA continuing education accreditation. Participants will have the opportunity to choose from 11 Daylighting Institute workshops (May 6–7), a two-day Daylighting Fundamentals course, four two-day Lightfair Institute immersion courses (May 6–7), 19 three–hour LFI Institute workshops, four Masters courses (May 9), and 33 seminars (May 8–10).

Two keynote speakers will headline the event: Architects Ben van Berkel, director of the UNStudio in Amsterdam, and Dr. Chris Luebkeman, director of Global Foresight & Innovation at the ARUP Group in London. Each will present a different perspective on global thinking and design. Luebkeman’s May 6 keynote luncheon, "Constructing Contexts" will address the ever-changing business culture. In "Lightness," the keynote luncheon on May 7, van Berkel will discuss achieving a feeling of lightness with spatial construction.