2025
LiTG Nachwuchspreis
Licht, Technik, und Gestaltung, Kategorie 2: Dissertationen
LiTG Young Talent Award in Light, Technology and Design,
Category 2: Dissertations
I’m thrilled to share that my dissertation on ‘The Environmental Impact of Artificial Lighting in Urban Settings: Gaps, Challenges and Sustainable Lighting Design‘ has been awarded the LiTG Nachwuchspreis Licht, Technik, und Gestaltung (LiTG Young Talent Award in Light, Technology and Design), in the Category II: Dissertations, by the LiTG, Deutsche Gesellschaft für LichtTechnik und LichtGestaltung e. V.
What a humbling moment to be standing at the DIN, Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. in Berlin and to then present 6 years, maybe more, of research to the members and committee of the LiTG.
On Friday, Nov 21st, I had the opportunity to share the hardship that emerged at the interface of ecology and lighting design. It integrates a deep commitment to transdisciplinary collaboration, and it’s a win not only for me but also for the team of light pollution researchers and lighting designers involved in understanding, translating, and transferring ecological awareness.
With this project, we established:
• Transdisciplinary collaborations and communication frameworks to translate and transfer ecological knowledge into the lighting practice
• Addressed the challenges of measuring light pollution in the river Spree in Berlin
• Developed recommendations and environmentally-friendly lighting solutions when light is needed close to waterbodies.
We shared the need for a lighting practice that integrates biodiversity thresholds and recognises light as a potential pollutant. We are in urgent need of respectful and careful approaches to designing with light.
This recognition from LiTG, Deutsche Gesellschaft für LichtTechnik und LichtGestaltung e. V. represents visibility and inclusion of perspectives and practices in favor of reducing light pollution to preserve natural darkness and night ecology.
→ Forschung Verbund Berlin e.v. Press Release
→ IGB
→ Freie Universität Berlin
2024
INTERVIEW
Space Eye: Observatorium für Weltraum und Umwelt
→ Wo die Dark Sky Zone direkt hinter der Hauptstadt anfängt, oder: Der erste Dark Sky Park der Schweiz. (Teil 1)
Where the Dark Sky Zone begins right behind the capital, or: Switzerland’s first Dark Sky Park (Part 1)
→ Lichtverschmutzung und ihre Auswirkungen auf Mensch und Tier Interview mit Catherine Pérez Vega (Teil 2)
Light pollution and its effects on humans and animals Interview with Catherine Pérez Vega (Part 2)
PRESS
Licht und wandernde Fische
→ FG Wismar.de
→ Hochschule Wismar IG
PODCAST EPISODE
Restoring Darkness
A podcast about science, design, and the importance of darkness.
PRESS ARTICLE
ARC magazine Lighting in Architecture
→ Follow the Light: Where to search for useful research information
PRESS ARTICLE
Dark Sky
→ Translating Research into Practice
PRESS ARTICLE
MIT Technology Review
→ Smart Cities: Bright LEDs could spell the end of dark skies
2023
2021
2016
→ Experten aus aller Welt diskutieren beim Light Symposium Wismar 2016
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
2024
Zukunftsfähig Beleuchten
Berlin, Germany
→ Read more about the event here
20 – 23.10
International Light Symposium at the University of South Eastern Norway
Konsgberg, Norway
I had the opportunity to be on stage and share a presentation on The environmental impact of artificial lighting in urban settings: gaps, challenges and sustainable lighting design. Below you can find the link to the article discussed during the session.
International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) German Chapter
23.09.2024 in Berlin, Germany
Speaker
Thema: “How can we improve lighting design to minimize its impact on ecology? Insights from the interface of ecology and lighting design”
Link on the discussed article during the session:
2022
Responsible Outdoor Lighting At Night (ROLAN) (Hybrid)
Conference Speaker with PD Dr. Franz Hölker, Thema: “Towards collaborative interfaces between ecology and lighting design”.
2021
eALAN, Artificial Light at Night Conference (Hybrid)
Pannel Discussion Chair for session on “Recent and future changes in outdoor lighting”.
2021
Smart Light Days (Hybrid)
Conference Speaker, Thema: “ECOSLIGHT: Alliance for better education in the lighting sector”.
2020
eALAN Artificial Light At Night (Hybrid)
Conference Speaker, Thema: “Urban Lighting Research – Collaboration Process with Lighting Professionals”
2018
Visualistmo, Panama City, Panama
Conference Speaker, Thema: Espectro Continuo
2017
LED Forum, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Conference Speaker, Thema: “The Environmental Influence of Lighting Design on Flora and Fauna. Recommendations for Lighting Designers”.
2017
Light Symposium, Wismar, Germany
Conference Speaker and Winner of the Call for paper competition, Thema: “The Environmental Influence of Lighting Design on Flora and Fauna. Recommendations for Lighting Designers”.
Catherine
Pérez Vega
Designer and Researcher
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