WINNERS OF THE LUXI LIGHT AWARDS 2020 CHOSEN

Munich Light Week, which had been planned for 6 to 13 November this year, usually culminates in the LUXI awards ceremony. The light show had to be cancelled this year for obvious reasons. However, it was still very important to the initiators, Pflaum publishing house and the company’s trade magazine LICHT to present the awards. Ever since it was established in 2015 with the aim of promoting young talent and acknowledging good lighting design, “LUXI – the LIGHT prize” has enjoyed steadily growing popularity and has become firmly established in the lighting scene. A supporter right from the start, this year WE-EF is once again sponsoring the event and congratulates this year’s LUXI prize winners!

A total of 33 entries were submitted in the categories of Luminaire, Lighting Concept and Lighting Technology, Innovation prize and Start-up prize. The entries were judged in an online meeting. “Although this was a departure from the usual procedure, I found the discussion with the jury members just as intensive and inspiring as under real conditions”, said LICHT editor-in-chief Emre Onur, who judged the entries together with Katja Strohhäker, construction director and urban planner of the state capital Munich, lighting designer Clemens Tropp, owner of Tropp Lighting Design, Munich product designer Florian Freihöfer and Isabell Lieb (standing in for Agnes Hey, managing director of Pflaum publishing house).

Julian Kemptner, a student at the Academy for Room and Object Design in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, won the young talent award in the Luminaire category for his Petrolight luminaire. Petrolight takes the principle of the rechargeable battery light further by transforming into a mobile lamp in a few simple steps.

In the Lighting Concept, the jury awarded the prize to Luca Menke from HAWK Hildesheim for his Illuminated Landmark concept, which shows what sustainable lighting design for mountain lifts can look like. For his master thesis at THGA Bochum, Dennis Lyskawka developed Flux.Mi as intuitive interaction between human beings and immaterial algorithms – impressively translated into lighting technology – and won the young talent award in the Lighting Technology category.

Anastasia Egeressy, Anna Spengel, Bastian Eichner and Clara Gan from Munich University of Applied Sciences also won a young talent award in the category Lighting Technology for their Polaris lamp. The luminaire brings light to darkness for small children moving around their homes at night.

This year, the Start-up prize and the Innovation prize went to the lighting design office of Luminum GmbH for its PostLogistics project. With the area lighting concept for six large logistics centres of the Swiss postal service, Luminum impressively demonstrates what lighting solutions can look like when they not only make shift work pleasant but also meet high demands for sustainability.

For further information and videos about the submissions and winners visit, lichtwoche-muenchen