Draft:Tapio Rosenius

Tapio Rosenius is a Finnish lighting designer and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Lighting Design Collective (LDC), a design studio that straddles the line between art and experience in built environment and co-founder and CEO of Skandal Technologies, a company that develops ambient communication solutions. He works with a team of designers, software developers and architects from his studio in Madrid, Spain.

Rosenius and LDC earned international attention in 2011 when they won a competition to create a permanent urban light-art piece in Helsinki, called Silo 468.

Life and career
Rosenius grew up in Oulu, northern Finland. He graduated with a degree in lighting design from Tampere School of Arts and Communication now part of Tampere University of Applied Sciences. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Light and Lighting from The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment in University College of London.

Rosenius founded Lighting Design Collective (LDC) in 2009 after an international career spanning over ten years as an architectural lighting designer working for Kevan Shaw Lighting Design in Edinburgh, and Maurice Brill Lighting Designin London.

In 2017 Rosenius co-founded a new technology start-up Skandal Technologies to launch a concept of ambient communication and to create enabling technologies for responsive environments, adaptive lighting and interactive light and media.

Silo 468
This project transforms a disused oil silo into a captivating light art installation and public space, utilizing LEDs and natural light. Located by the sea in Helsinki, Finland, prevailing winds play a significant role. Inspired by natural elements like light, wind, and water movement, the concept signifies the initiation of a significant urban redevelopment effort, bringing attention to an overlooked district. Custom software employs swarm intelligence and nature simulation algorithms to control the lights, creating organic, ever-changing patterns that evoke a sense of natural beauty.

Aurora at Setas de Sevilla
The Aurora at Setas de Sevilla is a permanent light installation at Metropol parasol in Spanish city of Sevilla.It is an immersive experience based on an intelligent system of sensors, cameras, and external variables processed and incorporated in real time.

Ambient Communication for lighting design
Rosenius is known for his distinctive approach to lighting design, which centers on the concept of ambient communication. His emphasis lies in demonstrating how data-driven, dynamic lighting, integrated within ambient communication frameworks, can notably impact human behavior. The overarching objective of this approach is to introduce fresh value to building owners, operators, and lighting designers by leveraging the potential of ambient communication through light and media.

Ambient communication works by harnessing subtle environmental cues to shape behavior. Lighting, ubiquitous in daily life, emerges as a particularly influential medium. Its nuanced attributes—intensity, color, and pattern—can steer decisions, prompt actions, and evoke emotions. Integrating behavioral science with lighting design promises to transform spaces and guide occupants toward positive choices and behaviors.

Poet Creator Software
The POET Creator Software is digital content generator and light and media controlling platform developed by Rosenius and his team at Skandal Technologies. The software enables the design and implementation of physical and digital installations that consist light, media, sound and data.

The system is described as the enabling technology for ambient communication allowing architects and designers to embed digital layers in architecture by controlling light and media based on live data inputs.

Awards
AV Awards 2023, Control and Management Technology of the Year for Poet Creator Software

Intelligent Lighting Solution of the Year for POET Creator Software at Light Middle East Awards 2024

Winner Media Architecture Biennale for Silo 468

IALD Award of Excellence for Silo 468

Comunicaciones Hoy award in IoT/Industry 4.0 category for Aurora at Setas de Sevilla

Publications
Create the Livable City: city.People.Light Authors: Marco Bevolo & Tapio Rosenius. Publisher: The Architects' Journal, Emap Inform. ISBN: 9780956787767