Course

Fundamentals of Residential Lighting CE740WDR2

Ended Jul 27, 2023

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Full course description

Wednesdays 7-9pm EST via Zoom

Course Description

CE740 Fundamentals of Residential Lighting takes you through the principal spaces in the home in four sessions, looking at lighting effects, techniques, and tools.

As a participant, you will learn how we see, including the perception of color and what makes objects, surfaces, and tasks stand out. You will practice visualizing, describing, and planning lighting effects using typical residential floorplans. LED technology and controls are explained and common problems will be confronted. Explanation of lighting vocabulary will help you select and shop for lighting equipment.

Following the introductory “Designing in Light and Color”, the course moves through the Kitchen, home office, dining room, living room, bedroom and bathrooms. These sessions address the significant design issues and explore various approaches to lighting each type of space.

Each sessions includes a design exercise to try on lighting ideas; home-based observation to develop critical vision; and a key issue review to reinforce understanding. Although we are working remotely, you will be able – and expected – to engage fully in the sessions.

The course is delivered via Zoom in four two-hour sessions (modules) on Wednesday, 7-9 PM:

CE 740 -1 Designing in Light and Color July 5 

CE 740 -2 Lighting Kitchens and Other Workspaces July 12

CE 740 -3 Lighting Social Spaces July 19

CE 740-4 Lighting Private Spaces July 26

Online and Interactive

Exercises are part of each module. Homework assignments mostly involve observation around your own spaces and recording what you see and critique.

 

Daniel Blitzer, LC, FIES

Dan Blitzer is Principal of The Practical Lighting Workshop, founded in 1993. The firm provides consulting services in marketing, strategy, communication, and education and serves a range of clients in the lighting community.

Altogether, Dan brings 40 years of experience to issues of lighting application, technology, luminaires, and controls; energy effectiveness and sustainability; product management and marketing, as well as lighting education. He has direct experience in multiple marketing channels.

Dan has developed and conducted lighting education for as principal faculty at the Signify Lighting Application Center from 2003-19; for the American Lighting Association, where he developed four editions of the Residential Lighting Training Manual; as well as courses for the Building Energy Exchange, the IES, and various commercial clients. Most recently, helped write and develop the new IES Introduction to Lighting online learning course.

Dan has written seminars and guides to energy effective lighting, remote and face-to-face training materials, guides for the NCQLP exam, the Designing With Light video series, and the video and printed history of the Lightolier company, The First Hundred Years.

Dan serves on the Steering Committee of the U.S. Department of Energy's Next Generation Lighting Systems design competition, focused on lighting controls. He is also a member of The Lighting Agora.

He is a board member and past president of the Designer’s Lighting Forum of New York, a director and Treasurer of The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, and the primary on-camera interviewer for the IESNYC History Project.

Dan is a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society. He is Lighting Certified. He holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University