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Sometimes in the most unexpected places we meet the most surprising people. At least, that was how I felt when I met Victoria Coeln, a light artist in Vienna. I wasn´t very familiar with her work but little I knew what I had been missing out. As soon as I entered her atelier and pointed out to the coloured shadows that I had glimpsed over a table, we both realised this could be the beginning of a long and fruitful conversation. She smiled back and I followed her along with Reka Vass to her dark studio. She switched on the light projector and there were beautiful colours projected in the back wall, just like a painting. This is pure light, she said.

I started to gather some figures and I realised that I´ve visited two of the world highest skybars in Hong-Kong and Singapore, the world tallest building in Dubai, the second oldest world amusement park in Copenhagen, climbed one of the world most famous bridges in Sydney, stepped in several world casinos (you count), was at a tuna auction in Tokyo, and finally went up to two of the largest and most famous landmark Ferris wheels around the world: the London Eye and the Wiener Riesenrad in Vienna.

Since having had the chance of working on the Belgravia & Mayfair lighting masterplan in London, I became very interested on the urban scale. As an architect/lighting designer I always secretly dreamt of being able to give something back to a city by improving the quality of the urban space that is accessible to all people. I think this comes from the idea that on an urban environment I always thought it would be easier to reach all kinds of people and promote wider and more relevant impact on their own lives than on a single building.