Light festival under the microscope in the city of Lyon, France

Lighting experts and city managers gathered to hold a seminar on the theme of “Lighting and Urban Development Strategies”.
When night falls, the whole of Lyon is shrouded in colorful lights. The soft lighting not only makes the city landscape and historical sites beautiful, but the warm light drives people in the city to drive away the chill of winter. .

The Lyon Festival of Lights has a long history. The earliest origins can be traced back to 1852. It was originally a religious festival held by the citizens of Lyon to thank the Virgin Mary for driving the plague. During the festival, people will light candles on the windowsills or at the door to celebrate. Later, with the development of the times, the candlelight was slowly replaced by lights.

In 1989, the City of Lyon began implementing the “Urban Lighting Plan” and established a set of public lighting systems to provide illumination for important historical sites and urban landscapes. At the same time, the Lyon city government also specially selected the annual lighting festival to invite tourists from all over the world to visit as an important window to show the results of urban lighting management to other countries.

The annual lighting festival lasts for 4 days. During the festival, hundreds of important urban landscapes including ancient bridges, cathedrals, theaters, etc. will be illuminated at the same time. There are also some 3D lighting equipment specially designed by the lighting engineer to make the whole city. Brilliant.

In fact, as the second largest city in France, Lyon's urban lighting management and lighting technology has always been the world's trend, and the lighting festival has become an important opportunity for foreign urban lighting management experts to learn.

In the past decade, in order to be more environmentally friendly, Lyon City has also begun to implement a new “green lighting” plan. According to Antoine Busch, head of the public lighting department in Lyon, although the number of public lighting bulbs in Lyon has increased from 58,000 to 65,000 in the past decade, they have turned the original All 40-watt bulbs are replaced with 7-watt energy-saving bulbs, so you can reduce your power consumption by 1/6 per year. At the same time, the management department has also changed the traditional way of lighting. For example, it used to use a lot of strong light to illuminate a historical building. Now it uses a softer light to illuminate the part of the building, emphasizing the fine details, but it also highlights the effect. .

In 2002, under the initiative of the Lyon Municipal Government, an organization called the International Urban Lighting Federation was formally established. More than 50 cities in the world including Brussels, Algiers and Shanghai, Guangzhou, China joined this. mechanism. It aims to provide a communication platform for designers, producers and architects of lighting equipment in various countries to better develop urban public lighting planning.

The organizer of the Lyon Lighting Festival said that the theme of this year's event is “The City under the Microscope”, which will organize relevant technical experts to conduct a two-day inspection of the entire urban lighting, and propose more environmentally friendly and advanced lighting planning for the future. Suggest.

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