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🎙️ Podcast: Get a Grip on Phototecture

September 11 2023
Get A Grip On Lighting Podcast, hosted by Michael Colligan and Greg Ehrich
Episode #324: Question Everything

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Dermaphotology explained in a panel discussion organized by the IESNYC and Equity in Lighting

January 18 2023 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST:
Watch the free webinar online Lighting and Skin Tone

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PhoScope: keynoting the 2022 IES Annual Conference

August 20 2022, 9:00 am – 10:00 am CDT:
Check out 2022 IES Annual Conference for program details.

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PhoScope: keynoting ELA SPOT. Pop-Up Lighting

November 9 2021 @ 12 pm – 1 pm CDT:
Check out ELA for program details.

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PhoScope speaking at LED Forum 2021

November 5 2021:
Speaking about speaking about light at LED Forum 2021

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PhoScope: Light Reach is WILD

September 9 2021:
Speaking about Light Reach with WILD

 

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PhoScope at [d]arc room livestream 2020

September 18 2020, 9:30am EDT:
Check out [d]arc for program details.

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PhoScope: a disruptor in lighting

August 21 2020: (Full EP program here)
        1:00pm – 2:00pm ET: Disruptors in Lighting
        4:00pm – 5:00pm ET: Live discussion

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Light Reach has a new website!

October 2019:
Light Reach is about life after dark. It is a solar lighting initiative by PhoScope, designed to leapfrog over utility grids to light work and play, and to boost the well-being and economic growth of underserved communities worldwide.

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PhoScope: keynoting EILD2019

March 20 – 23 2019:
Mark Major and Nathalie Rozot keynote EILD2019 in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.

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🥇 PhoScope receives a 2019 LUX-life Designer Award

December 10 2018:
PhoScope is honored to have been nominated for and awarded a Designer Award for best Photocentric Design Research.

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PhoScope launches Recreo de Noche in Puerto Rico

July 2018:
Days are short at the tropics, and Recreo de Noche provides lit playgrounds for use after sunset to address the recreational needs of residents and communities deprived of electrical power. After a pilot with LIA in San Juán in the fall of 2018, the model will be reproduced throughout PR.

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🥇 PhoScope receives a Lumen Award for Humanitarian Action

June 14 2018:
The year is 2018, the Lumens turn 50, and Nathalie Rozot, founder of PhoScope, receives the first Lumen Citation Award for Humanitarian Action : the future is bright for socio-photocentric initiatives.

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PhoScope speaks to a WILD audience

February 26 2018:
PhoScope is launching an outreach effort within the lighting community and via existing networks such as WILD NYC to increase socio-photocentric action and showcases the work developed for LSF in Haiti with the objective to inspire new teams to launch new projects. Learn more and watch the video here…

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PhotoMots featured by ACE at PLDC 2017!

November 2017:
Congratulations to French photosophers Sara Castagné et Rozenn Lecouillard for their witty use of the PhotoMots to present the ACE’s manifesto at PLDC2017… The words keep spreading, and were featured in LabLD and ACE.

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PhoScope publie PhotoMots – Première Edition

August 2017:
Concepteurs lumière, éclairagistes architecturaux: devenez phototectes. Notre glossaire étend l’application de l’étymologie de la lumière dans les langues vivantes pour nous aider à mieux y penser et en parler: téléchargez vos PhotoMots, 1ère Edition. Payez ce que vous voulez– vos donations nous encouragent et soutiennent la phototecture!

 

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PhoScope releases FotoPalabras – Primera Edición

July 2017:
PhoScope embraces and supports diversity: we translated our PhosWords for the 500 miilion Spanish-speakers worldwide, including 55 milion in the US. Download your copy of FotoPalabras, 1˚ Edición here– it’s free, but we suggest a $10 donation: it is dedictable and we need your support.

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Phototects Advocates

April 2017:
Phototects advocate, and PhoScope is a proud supporter of  Architects Advocate.

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PhoScope is a supporter of the Day Of Photonics

October 2016:
We love photons and photonic events. October 21st 2016 is the international Day of Photonics.

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PhoScope releases PhosWords – Second Edition

January 2016:
In lighting, it is hard to communicate what we do, but PhosWords now expands the discourse of light. You can download our 2nd edition— and support us with a deductable donation.

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Winners Announced for PhosWords of the Year 2015!

December 2015:
We photly congratulate the winners whose entries were selected by our jurors: Enrico Cullen (photodendron),  Connor Johnson (photofloral), David Manier (phoneiric), Glenn Shrum (phodega), Davor Stevceski (photohoric), Joe Wieder (aphoplexy), and Monica Williamson (phossential).  Read more

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PhoScope proposes Change in Lighting Education

October 10, 2015:
Nathalie Rozot presents “Agents of Change in Lighting Education” at the IALD’s annual Enlighten Americas International conference in Baltimore.

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PhosWords of the Year 2015

January 1st 2015:
PhoScope launches an international competition for new words to expand the PhosWords project.

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PhosWords coming to Life in Light at IALD 2013

October 2013:
In just 6 minutes and 40 seconds, you will find out how PhosWords provide you with the clearest language to describe your Life in Light at the IALD Enlighten Americas 2013: Pecha Kucha in Montreal.

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5Watts: PhoScope lights TOOP at the Centre National de la Danse

April 2013:
Public presentation of work in progress for 5Watts and Twice Out Of Paradise April 24 and 25.


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PhoScope is presented at Parsons, the New School for Design

September 2012:
Nathalie Rozot explains how she became a Photoplanner, and introduces PhoScope in her lecture for the “Faculty Works in Progress” series at Parsons’ School of Constructed Environments (SCE), New York.

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PhoScope’s mission is presented at ELA2012

February 2012:
Nathalie Rozot introduces PhoScope and the organization’s mission  in her keynote lecture “On the Bright and the Dark Side” at  Expo Lighting America 2012 (ELA2012) in Mexico City.

 

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Roundtable discussion at the Theatre de la Ville

December 2011:
PhoScope participates in a Roundtable Discussion at the Theatre de la Ville with Jeanne Bloch and Prue Lang in an event sponsored by Imagine 2020.