When an industry to become the government reveal the embodiment of the achievements, become the night belonged with different reference, become the end of a design chain, become the pronoun of represents the vulgar and shallow, believe that every love lighting industry practitioners.
Today's China lighting design industry fall in the following cycle:
A planning or nonsense to talk about?
City lights need urban lighting planning or urban lighting design? Seriously urban planning and urban design is an association and the relationship between the author, is planning to urban control, positioning, comb, parsing, define the scale, with long term planning; Urban design involves the specific link, the facade of city, urban renewal, landscape, urban color, transportation hub, guided by instructions, cultural attribute, spirit materialized apparent, city values, etc., have an immediate operational (here introducing western corbusier the rationality of the concept of urban planning in today).
"China encyclopedia" said: "the urban design is the design of urban physical environment. Generally refers to the overall urban planning, under the guidance of the recent development of the construction project of the detailed planning and detailed design. The task of urban design is various activities for people to create a certain space in the form of a physical environment, including buildings, municipal facilities, landscaping, etc., must be comprehensive reflect social, economic, urban function, aesthetic and so on various aspects requirements."
The rapid urban development in contemporary China, cities grow in continuous change. Urban construction update very fast. If still in a few years on the urban planning, the urban lighting planning? It is difficult for us to meet real in accordance with the plan to implement the lighting, also don't know how a only more than ten years history of the design industry to planning a city hundreds of thousands of years of history. Aesthetic, emotional, and all the technical indicators may become obsolete in a few years, "timeliness" is the main reason why not make lighting planning.
Lighting planning how to do? We saw the so-called lighting planning paradigm additional just some "city image", imitation of urban planning as well as create the "one axis", "two lines", "three points", "four regions"... This is a kind of formulaic lighting planning. There were city night scene illumination design specification, and cities need to specify the color temperature region, the brightness level? Natural lighting is much better than the academic planning!
The director of the city is keen to see "short", "flat", "fast" food, they issued a "urban lighting planning bidding book" don't forget there are "the center node, the urban landscape corridor, the important sections, the core landmark" in the specific design, that's what they care about most. As for the "planning", in a leadership change a chi son things. From the big pattern, whether planning or urban design, are amoral behavior, both on this point is very consistent.
In urban lighting design, the designers follow blindly to the blasting loud requirements of the city managers, to cater to the owner, the bottom line loss of urban design aesthetics, to still do not have mature technology means of lighting city implemented a series of facade decoration performance, cause again after a few years of aesthetic criticism. Can be clear that these mass today, investing hundreds of millions or even billions of development of city region facade lighting are solutions for immediate political needs, don't have regional, cultural, aesthetic and artistic quality, will become a stain in the history of the development of industry in the future.
Talk about the loss of the indoor lighting market
In indoor lighting lighting designer is still in the role of technical consultant, rather than as a designer in the form of light feeling, artistry, appeal, subjective grasp of subject consciousness, only from the objective, technique, control, parameters, specifications on as a consultant or assistant for interior designers.
More important is in addition to 3 these valuable items in first-tier cities have indoor lighting designers cooperate with the outside, in a wider area, two or three line market of so-called lighting designers not to enter the field of indoor lighting, the field is interior designer swept, every moment think a good interior designer for the lights are very strong control ability. As a symbolic lights have artistic quality they can design. As the lights of the functionalization of technical they can implement, because they had the experience of a certain temperature. Lighting designers and lost the lighting industry occupy at least seventy percent of the market!
When to realize the theme of "light" can become a space and decisive elements, lighting designer's profession to get respect. Also, lighting design is to create more unique style, the clear light efficiency, energy saving technology, strong charisma, shin kong phenomenon, is to win a larger market.
The defects of three talk about lighting design education
Lighting design education to become dogmatic and modeled. The main domestic currently conducted by lighting design education by China lighting association to carry out the training work, has a three-level architecture, advanced lighting designers, lighting designers, intermediate primary lighting designers. Honestly, we too need this system of education, the industry is not only technically, from the artistic aesthetics, more pioneering designer emotional intelligence and wisdom.
But for now this education exist the following problems:
1, teaching material can't keep up with the requirements of new period, the lack of updates on technology, on the techniques, behind The Times mentioned in art, in the visual aesthetics, design structure, few about theme culture, nor as a designer should design character, design ethics education.
The real design education to bring designers to the ground, to the project, to the space, tell young designers exactly where the role of lighting design, how to create a good design works of art cultivation and technical support;
2, in order to enlarge the employment and the penetration of lighting designers, will significantly shorten the training time.
Original intermediate lighting design training to simplify a month at the end of ten days or so, advanced to a week or so. What is the purpose of the training? Shorten the reason is that in order to people club department before on the professional qualification certification need a certain number of practitioners, today cancelled people club department under the state council issued the certificate, after gradually changed to by professional institute to train, appraisal, certification, in such a short time, has proved to be lighting the deepening of learning?
3, senior lighting designer training has become a place for students to make connections.
Take not take card is not important, more important in the class who knew industry strange phenomenon. In this economy, everything became utilitarianism teleology, and obtain a certificate after the years of training advanced production enterprises in the lighting designer and chairman of the board of directors, general manager of the majority, the senior training class of lighting designers is a one-stop supply, design and construction of the base. There are specializing in, why is everybody to rob designer this bowl of rice? When designers into a "title", this is not conducive to the development of China's lighting design industry.
Four technical ability and artistic accomplishment
Lighting practitioners to level the good and bad are intermingled phenomenon is particularly prominent.
Was short of scale, the industry early most designers from electric light source, electrical, electronics, optical research and development, the production of lamps and lanterns, and other fields turn around, to adapt to the need in the burgeoning market for China lighting, it is for this batch of superior technical ability of personnel to the contribution, we made the lighting industry with today's rapid progress.
Lighting is after all a space visual phenomenon, however, after the completion of the lighting whatever was named the "lighting" or "night", in the form of visual aesthetic, either, according to the chaos of the visualization are either full of order and the beauty of rhythm expression, which every space lighting design contains the proportion, movement, graphics, refining, constitute, reshaping, beyond, imagination, beautiful, happy, this is a pleasant things, found that "light" a process from technique to the spirit of integrity.
Technology can't be aesthetic, only will technology as the backbone, framework, main and collateral channels, the phenomenology of a background as a lighting, such technology can present significance.
Five talk about who is caused by the lack of aesthetic city?
So many times of China's urban lighting phenomenon is the lack of aesthetic consciousness and public moral habits.
Visited central province, some time ago I saw made me shock in the CBD of the scene, the local government more than a year ago for an international conference, unexpectedly in the CBD surrounded the inner ring high-rise building facade all mount point light source, with a "bead curtain lamps and lanterns" array formed a similar "dense phobia" psychological effect.
Standing in it for miles around huge "bead curtain" sorrow, I feel that lighting design under what makes this fearless city lighting phenomenon? Is time limit for a project? Now record? Or self-righteous, really think those foreign leaders, their aesthetic and also the central provinces city managers, to ugly for advocates, for shallow, you where come of so much confidence!
I have and the owner of the guangzhou Asian games project unit design director Mr Wang xiaoguang met on a BBS, he told us with tough-talking - all said that the government can't owner and designer have a good communication, only five minutes to design unit to a report in time, I tell you, more than five minute time is, for the scheme I can't see you speak what ideas, listen to the report you're wasting my time. Good! When you meet a well informed of the owner, as a designer you with what to impress each other? Allow the person to give you time to listen to your proposal?
So much when I listen to designer said a very vulgar owner, the implication in the face of such owner you don't have more brains to think, to create, you only need to design reasonably according to the most vulgar tune to right. So we see the city a profusion of garden flowers, colorful, dynamic changes, line draw the outline of. (I always wonder why in many cities of high-rise buildings can be seen on the digital tube water effect? Not up is down, or staggered up and down) is this really the owner vulgar or our designer vulgar?
Never vulgar owner, only common designer.
Our owner how sad, every time they meet designers took things are so consistent, lack of innovation, are common, lack of inspiration, is plagiarism, lack of wen gen. In wave designers still so, the owner of the aesthetic are designer teach bad. The owner not seen good work today? Not excited to see good design? Is again and again in the face of no culture, art, culture, the aesthetic value of designers, our owner learn diao, slipped, learn to learn their own design. The owner is not a designer, but in the end they become the designer!
For the owner, every designer should keep in mind that we are not to cater to them, but to guide them. With yourself first, we have the ability to lead? No, go to travel, study, well-informed bo, again to talk about what is the lighting design, this requires every designer really to reflect on.
Six about survival is not easy to lighting engineering company
To talk about lighting engineering company.
During these years every professional lighting engineering industry insiders estimate are full of bitterness and project competition is intense, a road lighting should attract and home to bid. Many local governments make "the lowest bid", drove the project company to compress costs, reduced costs, reduce profits; Engineering to every to bid to bid, callings, wai, the dark mark, operation, the setting threshold, competitive negotiation. Coupled with the troubles in the real estate project, the national macroeconomic regulation and control to a soft landing, huge local government debt, is to project with subsequent project is also a heart-wrenching thing.
Many lighting engineering company configuration design, but the design is completely use psychology to engineering company engaged in lighting design, can use the nine words to describe the project lighting engineering company as a - "light enough", "light is bright enough," "color", this kind of phenomenon between the north and the popularization, don't do that where there is profit?
I have seen the engineering company with a well-known industry to urban construction units, a city centre street, one hundred tall buildings, the engineering design company out of the hundreds of zhang rendering let owner view, chart with conference rooms, last morning, every building owners say, light color, brightness, technique, primary and secondary, see the owner of that bother!
Seven problems of lighting designers
We cannot but speak the survival status of lighting designers.
Whenever I talk about lighting design in the industry I think of the "whampoa" the words of the gate of the couplet: "promoting to a higher position, please don't walk; death, don't enter here".
Yes, lighting designers also like that year for the northern expedition revolutionary soldier, is in the way of a people.
Or because the cause of the "timely", we found that the rise of urban lighting is often policymakers at that time, think to do city accent lighting, or an important international conferences, sports games, merit rating, immediately clappers horse, and after some in the early period of the design, engineering of repeated negotiations, the final qualified all finished in a month... Commercial complex in nearby opened to lighting, party a specified time limit for a project time limit to complete. Residential, venues, transportation facilities, as long as it is the matter with a kind of lighting is more haste.
Few people think the lighting design is an art, need to elaborate conception, a variety of technical conditions support bright career, is not is the light! So the lighting designer into the trap of countless day and night to work overtime. The lighting designer income? It is quite small, fare is very low, very low wages, not as good as architects, interior designers, majority is in charge.
I experienced a tender, some county in the south of urban lighting planning after the rating conditions listed, a very important standard is "price points and 20 points, using low priority method". A design than not creative, design, logic, structure, services, who whose price is low than winning. So, finally won the bid design unit is lower than budget purchasing price by more than half, I can believe that they make a good design?
Under the condition of the production, and then to designer's comprehensive quality, professional knowledge, employment ability, I think I lost my conscience!
Eight about designers
Do the designers not only have a low income, as well as elaborate design work can not be reasonable and accurate implementation of the helpless, this is many designers say.
Our industry have good vision lighting designers, they are proficient in technology, can meet the project progress, but is in the end it is hard to realize your design vision. This rush and speak in front of the project period, the compression of funds, the construction of without change in the designer, the owner of the follow one's inclinations.
Nine talk big, quirks or tinea scabies
Compared to the outstanding effect of city lighting, city are not on any of the construction of a more immediate than it, so the city managers prefer to do large projects, such as "one river two", "two rivers and four bank", "three rivers six shores", "landscape corridor" and so on. One time I made a special trip to nanchang to see these two years of the night at "kan", when I go to is already completed one year later, the entire top both glass curtain wall construction and stone buildings along the river, all installed the point light source or a small number of linear modulation (extensive use of linear lamp is unable to control the cost).
Hundreds of tall buildings unified lit up at night, to form a picture of the earth only can be seen in the present China's colorful painting. If it is a story show, the plot transformation, there is light color video images of also just, the key is more than a year of operation, a lot of lamps and lanterns is not bright, upstairs in the puzzling to see a lot of incomplete picture changing, and the content is its own chapter, has nothing to do, a see be control system has collapsed.
Want to know there is no background music and the content of video image performance is a kind of boring masturbation, what do you let people see? Every performance content end to restart a new round of performance, will see a lot of lamps and lanterns upstairs or white light flashing, in FM is this? Or frightened audience?
City rich aesthetic environment to cultivate the noble moral character, ideal environment to motivate people to love life, let the spirit get promoted. We found that under the condition of existing technology, lighting design is not have spread several kilometers of intelligent control.
Under the condition of existing investments, at best, this kind of a light show is disposable products, meet the instant visual jing when opening; Under the condition of existing aesthetic, "eccentricities" will produce many cities in China, and then become a city "tinea scabies"; Under the condition of existing subsequent supporting design, because of the lack of image content updates, destined to our citizens to day after day, year after year to watch the scene repeat and repeat, dull and monotonous picture show, and is mandatory, you can't watch!
After the talk
I know everything there is a process. We have no food before we even, social poverty, let alone in lighting design. Then we began to eat food, meat, seafood, game, spirits, good! With this stage must be the colorful city lighting, five-color blind. Later a variety of physical discomfort, obesity, high blood ˆR, diabetes, gout, endocrine easily disorder, this stage city, also a morbid clumps, disorderly expansion, plug, crowded, haze, germs, and restlessness.
Until one day we want to clear the quiet life, we yearn for simple, inside collect, graceful and restrained, human, sweet, simple, not job make public...
