Demonstrations will explore the possibilities of light technologies and materials with inventive designers Ulrike Oberlack (jewellery) and Rachel Wingfield (textiles). Experiment with fabrics and forms to create your own lights assisted by Big William (design students and graduates from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University).
Lighten Up: the future of light in design is a design debate about how the designed environment is shaped by light with leading light specialists from the world of design, architecture and art. Arnold Chan will take part in a debate chaired by author and lighting specialist Janet Turner. Other features will be light installations in the V&A's Grand Entrance and music by The Light Surgeons. A series of curator talks named Luminosity & Lustre run throughout the evening will explore the subject of light as both medium and subject in the V&A collections. In addition the curator of Brilliant, Jane Pavitt, will give tours of the exhibition through the evening.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
