From 19. to 22. October, 2011 up to 1300 participants will be making their way to the Spanish capital for further education, to discuss new lighting solutions, exchange information on research results, meet business contacts and learn more about cutting-edge technologies.

Alingsås is a quiet nest 50 kilometres north-east of Gothenburg. For five weeks every autumn streams of international visitors flock to the little Swedish town from all over the world, locals defy the dark and cold and venture out onto the streets as autumn takes its hold, would-be lighting designers create amazingly sensitive installations in their own gardens, teams of international students clad in uniform weatherproof jackets are seen all over town, climbing trees, clambering up ladders on house fronts, crawling around under bushes… That can only mean one thing: the Lights in Alingsås workshop is underway!

Larry Kagan is a sculptor who uses steel, light and cast shadow as a creative medium. A long time Professor of Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, he maintains studios in Troy and in New York City. He is represented by OK Harris art gallery in New York City.

India not only has an estimated population of 1,177,255,000 in 28 states, over 7,500 kilometres of coastline, the world’s highest mountains, five hundred wildlife sanctuaries and one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it also has an established lighting community!..

Wandering the deserted backroads of the American Southwest, Troy Paiva has explored the abandoned underbelly of America since the 1970s. 
Since 1989 he’s been taking pictures of it . . .

Further education and continuing education seminars and programmes offered by the VIA Group are prepared by experienced qualified educators and taught exclusively by leading experts in the respective fields. VIA-Verlag has an almost 20-year history of the (further) education of lighting specialists...