Salone del Mobile 2025 Events

Masterclass: Lonneke Gordijn, DRIFT

April 11 ^th 2025 12:15 - 12:45 (CEST)

Uniting people through light and motion.

The presence or absence of light determines the atmosphere in a space.
The presence or absence of motion determines the energy in a space.
Throughout the last 18 years, artists and designers Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn, working under the name Studio Drift, have been developing room filling artworks and interactive installations using light and motion as the key factors with the aim to change the behaviour and emotions of people in the space. “Working with architects, museums and private clients all over the world, we learned to understand how nature uses the same factors to align species and create strong ecosystems. As artists we actively search for this wisdom in nature and deliberately use these principles in our installations to tune people into the same frequency. Working on bringing people and environments together and uniting energies to create healthy and productive places”, explains the design duo.

Through examples of different projects, Lonneke will elaborate on the creative and innovative processes that fuel their creations and their take on how healthy energetic people that are aligned can be the force to build a sustainable world. The power of communicating on an intuitive level through light and movement. And how technology can help to achieve living environments that activate peoples’ brains.

Architects registered with Italian CNAPPC (National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscapers and Conservationists) can earn 10 CFP by attending The Euroluce International Lighting Forum (5 CFP for Thursday, April 10th, and 5 CFP for Friday, April 11th). Access is free with a Salone del Mobile admission ticket. To ensure credit recognition, pre-registration to the following forms is recommended: The Euroluce International Lighting Forum | Light for Spaces

Friday 11 April
12.15 p.m.
Participant: Lonneke Gordijn, Artist, Co-Founder DRIFT

The Euroluce International Lighting Forum
Light for Life. Light for Spaces
Arena The Forest of Space by Sou Fujimoto
Directed by Annalisa Rosso, in collaboration with APIL
Euroluce Fiera Milano, Rho – Pavilion 2

Discover more, in the interview with Lonneke Gordijn

Studio DRIFT

Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn (1980) and Ralph Nauta (1978) founded DRIFT in 2007. With a multidisciplinary team of artists, engineers and programmers, they work on experiential sculptures, installations and performances. DRIFT manifests the phenomena and hidden properties of nature with the use of technology in order to learn from the Earth’s underlying mechanisms and to re-establish our connection to it. With both depth and simplicity, DRIFT’s works of art illuminate parallels between manmade and natural structures through deconstructive, interactive, and innovative processes.

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