1001 ways to light a cube

whenlightswork collective had been invited by the Ministry of Education to host the lighting workshop as part of the planned programs for the Art and Music Education Conference (AMEC) 2009. The main focus of the workshop is thus, for the participants to appreciate light in space. Hence, we had planned for a series of tasks for the participants to discuss, as a group, for them to relate to lighting design through visuals. Then, we would proceed to conceptualization and execution of the proposed lighting concept. 

The workshop had been divided into two different sections, due to the time limit posed by the conference organizers. Firstly, we shall start with the grouping of images in accordance to certain identified themes and the participants would need to document and present their ideas at the end of the discussion.

With these ideas in mind, the participants were encouraged to explore and experiment on 1001 ways to light a cube, based on the ideas they had extracted from the visuals from part 1 of the workshop. The participants were encouraged to explore different variations and possiblities of lighting a cube and similarly, the results were documented and presented to the entire studio after the workshop.

The results of the workshop had been rather "surprising" as the participants explored and experiment with forms, shadows and colours. And the participants had, within a three hour workshop, understand the basics to lighting appreciation in space and the relation of light to form and geometry, as well as the ability to conceptualize from drawings to miniature mockups.