Pool of Light ~ Festival of Light

From 1st November 2008

Pool of Light: Eight of the most innovative lighting designers in the world are coming to Liverpool to create a month-long festival of light spanning the River Mersey.

The Pool of Light is the most ambitious project of its type undertaken by the Professional Lighting Designers’ Association (PLDA) and has been organised by Liverpool Vision.

The designers will lead teams of volunteers from all over the world – including people from Liverpool – and within workshops they will design and create lighting ideas concentrating on seven real locations in the city centre and Wirral.

The temporary lighting installations are delivered from scratch in just one week, and will be linked by a specially illuminated Mersey ferry.

The switch-on on October 31 coincides with the Pool of Light – Light and Scale Conference which will examine the importance of good architectural lighting and describe the workshop schemes and involve high-profile keynote speakers.

Guided walking tours will be available to the public from November 1. Cllr Jean Stapleton, Wirral’s cabinet member for regeneration and planning strategy, said: “We have been working closely with colleagues in Liverpool on this project.

Pool of Light Conference CUC Liverpool

FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER 2008

Contemporary Urban Centre, Greenland Street, Liverpool
Cost Per Delegate £150
A limited number of student places are available at £40* per delegate.

This international Conference organised by PLDA and Places Matter! explores the increasingly important contribution which architectural feature lighting is making to the renewal of our towns & cities. Liverpool provides an outstanding location for the Conference, the City is slowly being transformed by light after dark, demonstrating new confidence in the city and contributing to improvements in the environment and economy.

The Conference will explore the issue of light, darkness and scale, drawing on the experience of some of the temporary lighting schemes installed in Liverpool and the Wirral in October 2008, which capture the extremes of professional practice from the massive tunnel ventilation shaft to the human scale of a city centre housing estate.

For more details of the light festival and conference visit www.pool-of-light.co.uk