Vision + Development | Performance Optimisation | Project Management | Content + Communications

Festival Sustainability Overview

Wait… what happened to night time?

Mission:

deliver a high-caliber light art event

inspire Singaporeans

raise awareness on energy and sustainability relating to light useage

enhance the urban built environment

create positive long-term effects on energy reduction through quality low energy lightexperiences in public space

Event Sustainability Principles:

1. Energy reduction from lighting usage.2. Promote best practise in lighting design and light art for

quality after dark city experience.3. Promote dark city skies. People in cities require a

connection to the natural environment.

Vision: To identify and measure (where possible) significant environmental, social, economic, and cultural criteria relating to the light festival event.

Maximise the good stuff.

Minimise the bad stuff.

Communicate what we’re trying to do, and why, to everyone.

Educate and advocate behaviour change.

Festival by numbers:

25 art pieces

Created by 35 artists and collaborators

From 10 countries

Approximately 17 different types of events

Estimated 200-250k paxadditional attendance

3 week run-time

11 core sustainability initiatives

Many players

Four examples of sustainability initiatives:

Switch-Off, Turn Up CampaignBiofuel powered LED art piecesPublic education initiativesCohesive planning, reporting, and comms

The idea of sustainability: It’s not just about ‘green’It’s not just about our environment

It’s about our social dynamics, our culture, our economy, and how our environment interrelate.

The full details, including plan and forthcoming report (mid-end Nov 2010):www.ilightmarinabay.sg/sustainability

Tomorrow doesn’t have to be another yesterday.

Thanks for your attention. We’ve been…

Chris Tobias, Lead Strategist

E: chris@forward.net.nz

M: +65 8406 2275 (SG) +64 21 0225 2650 (NZ)

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