Kate Turley was named SLL Young Lighter 2024 with her project, A tailored dynamic lighting and sensing paradigm to support wellbeing for people living with dementia.
The final was hosted and facilitated by SLL President-Elect, Kristina Allison MCIBSE CEng, MSLL at four locations – Edinburgh, Leeds, London and Oxford with all four finalists delivering their presentations to a live audience of their peers, as well as being broadcast to the other locations. The winner was decided by a combination of judges and audience vote. Kate was announced as the 30th SLL Young Lighter winner at Light2Perform on 13th November at ExCel, London.
The 2024 finalists and presentations were as follows:
- Jess Keates, Hoare Lea - Beyond the Line, Applying our understanding of the effects of spatial frequency and contrast on visual discomfort.
- Samuel Walker, OBS Lighting Consultants - Observe: An interactive educational platform.
- Tammy Julleekeea, dpa Lighting Consultants - Re-illuminating the waters: Protecting eco-systems beyond surface level.
In 2023 Teresa Aguilar Carrasco was named SLL Young Lighter with her project, CircaLight, a new circadian light assessment tool for Grasshopper environment.
The other finalists were:
- Anna Freiesleben, Michael Grubb Studio - Light Beyond Earth: Illuminating life on exoplanets.
- Irene Mazzei, Edinburgh Napier University / Stoane Lighting Ltd (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) - Improving sustainability in the lighting industry.
- Tom Ruddle, EGG Lighting - Lighting Remanufacture.
Find out more about Teresa's winning entry and the 2023 SLL Young Lighter finals. Watch a video of all the finalists at Light 23.
Scott Kluger was named SLL Young Lighter 2022 with his entry - Daylight Harvester: A tool to enhance lighting operational performance.
SLL Young Lighter 2022 finalists:
- Kenny Cliffe, Lighting Designer, Ridge & Partners - Adapting to the Digital Future
- Anna Forrester, Lighting Design, Arup - Improving the circadian rhythms in children through the means of a lighting device
- Hiba Mazhar, Architectural Lighting Designer, Signify - DO WE OWN NIGHT??? Reimagining traditional city lighting with new light recipe to confiscate light pollution
Find out more about Scott's winning entry and the 2022 SLL Young Lighter finals.
Maria Englezou was named SLL Young Lighter 2021 with her entry - Do we need to change the design of healthcare facilities rooms?
Find our more about Maria's winning entry and the 2021 Young Lighter Finals. Held online.
Aluwaine Manyonga was named SLL Young Lighter 2020 at the Lux Awards online with his entry - Offgrid Solar Lighting and Chigubhu Lantern, Africa's Education System Game Changer
Find out more about Aluwaine's winning entry.
Take a look at some of the previous finalists' video presentations via the links below:
- A Light Booster Metro Car for the Commuting Work Force: Human Centric Lighting in Underground Transportation by Anna Wawrzyniak
- Children's Utopian Visions of the City: co-designing lighting masterplans through play and exploration by Emma Beadle
- Ultra-thin Surface Light Sources: Picking up where OLED Stalled by Matt Hanbury
- A New Manual Blind Use Pattern for Annual Energy and Daylight Simulations by Amir Nezamdoost
- A Visible Light Communication Scheme for use as Accent Lighting by Aisha Robinson
- Applicability of Climate-based Daylight Modelling by Eleonora Brembilla
- A Journey Towards Change by James Duff
- Variable Lighting Levels for Highways: A Different Approach by Sofia Tolia
SLL Young Lighters - Left: Matt Hanbury (2017), Sofia Tolia (2016), Youmna Abdallah (2015)
Right: Janna Aronson (2014), Rachael Nicholls (2013), Sabine de Schutter (2012)