June 22 2024 @ 11:30am-12:00pm CET

February 21 2024
Restoring Darkness Podcast, hosted by Michael Colligan
Episode #97: Sound without Silence

2023
PhoScope is a winner of the 2023 Ann Hunter-Wellborn Circle of Excellence Award
This award recognizes industry leaders in sustainability.

November 4 2023 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Tackling Light Poverty: Light Reach Network and a Cultural Shift for Philanthropy in Lighting

September 11 2023
Get A Grip On Lighting Podcast, hosted by Michael Colligan and Greg Ehrich
Episode #324: Question Everything

May 23 2023 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Dermaphotology: the Color of Light

March 7 2023 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am EST:
Light Reach Network: A Solar Framework for Philanthropy in Lighting

January 18 2023 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST:
Watch the free webinar online Lighting and Skin Tone

August 20 2022, 9:00 am – 10:00 am CDT:
Check out 2022 IES Annual Conference for program details.

November 9 2021 @ 12 pm – 1 pm CDT:
Check out ELA for program details.

November 5 2021:
Speaking about speaking about light at LED Forum 2021

September 9 2021:
Speaking about Light Reach with WILD

June 10 2021:
We celebrate WIL with profound gratitude.

September 18 2020, 9:30am EDT:
Check out [d]arc for program details.

August 21 2020: (Full EP program here)
        1:00pm – 2:00pm ET: Disruptors in Lighting
        4:00pm – 5:00pm ET: Live discussion

October 2019:
Light Reach is about life after dark. It is a solar lighting initiative by PhoScope, designed to leapfrog over utility grids to light work and play, and to boost the well-being and economic growth of underserved communities worldwide.

March 20 – 23 2019:
Mark Major and Nathalie Rozot keynote EILD2019 in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.

March 12 2019,  5:00 – 6:00pm:
Join us for a presentation on PhoScope’s vision and mission: Open Light Source: a Path Towards Lighting Design Activism

March 5 2019, 6:00 – 10:00pm:
Join us on March 5 to congratulate the winners as Nathalie Rozot keynotes the event.

December 6 2018:
Interview by Thomas Mnich, Light Lounge.

December 10 2018:
PhoScope is honored to have been nominated for and awarded a Designer Award for best Photocentric Design Research.

July 2018:
Days are short at the tropics, and Recreo de Noche provides lit playgrounds for use after sunset to address the recreational needs of residents and communities deprived of electrical power. After a pilot with LIA in San Juán in the fall of 2018, the model will be reproduced throughout PR.

June 14 2018:
Interview by Randy Reid, Edison Report.

June 14 2018:
The year is 2018, the Lumens turn 50, and Nathalie Rozot, founder of PhoScope, receives the first Lumen Citation Award for Humanitarian Action : the future is bright for socio-photocentric initiatives.

May 21 2018:
A panel discussion at the Center for Architecture organized by the AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee.

February 26 2018:
PhoScope is launching an outreach effort within the lighting community and via existing networks such as WILD NYC to increase socio-photocentric action and showcases the work developed for LSF in Haiti with the objective to inspire new teams to launch new projects. Learn more and watch the video here…

November 2017:
Congratulations to French photosophers Sara Castagné et Rozenn Lecouillard for their witty use of the PhotoMots to present the ACE’s manifesto at PLDC2017… The words keep spreading, and were featured in LabLD and ACE.

August 2017:
Concepteurs lumière, éclairagistes architecturaux: devenez phototectes. Notre glossaire étend l’application de l’étymologie de la lumière dans les langues vivantes pour nous aider à mieux y penser et en parler: téléchargez vos PhotoMots, 1ère Edition. Payez ce que vous voulez– vos donations nous encouragent et soutiennent la phototecture!

July 2017:
PhoScope embraces and supports diversity: we translated our PhosWords for the 500 miilion Spanish-speakers worldwide, including 55 milion in the US. Download your copy of FotoPalabras, 1˚ Edición here– it’s free, but we suggest a $10 donation: it is dedictable and we need your support.

April 2017:
Phototects advocate, and PhoScope is a proud supporter of  Architects Advocate.

October 2016:
We love photons and photonic events. October 21st 2016 is the international Day of Photonics.

January 2016:
In lighting, it is hard to communicate what we do, but PhosWords now expands the discourse of light. You can download our 2nd edition— and support us with a deductable donation.

December 2015:
We photly congratulate the winners whose entries were selected by our jurors: Enrico Cullen (photodendron),  Connor Johnson (photofloral), David Manier (phoneiric), Glenn Shrum (phodega), Davor Stevceski (photohoric), Joe Wieder (aphoplexy), and Monica Williamson (phossential).  Read more…

October 10, 2015:
Nathalie Rozot presents “Agents of Change in Lighting Education” at the IALD’s annual Enlighten Americas International conference in Baltimore.

September 2015:
Meet our select jurors, and do not miss your chance to win: enter by October 1st 2015

January 1st 2015:
PhoScope launches an international competition for new words to expand the PhosWords project.

July 2014:
PhoScope joins L-RO network for the photal year 2015, a.k.a. the International Year of Light IYL2015.

April 22 2014:
Bright Ideas in a Resilient World is an exhibition and a public program on low carbon lighting organized by Green Light New York.

October 2013:
In just 6 minutes and 40 seconds, you will find out how PhosWords provide you with the clearest language to describe your Life in Light at the IALD Enlighten Americas 2013: Pecha Kucha in Montreal.

April 2013:
Public presentation of work in progress for 5Watts and Twice Out Of Paradise April 24 and 25.

September 2012:
Nathalie Rozot explains how she became a Photoplanner, and introduces PhoScope in her lecture for the “Faculty Works in Progress” series at Parsons’ School of Constructed Environments (SCE), New York.

February 2012:
Nathalie Rozot introduces PhoScope and the organization’s mission  in her keynote lecture “On the Bright and the Dark Side” at  Expo Lighting America 2012 (ELA2012) in Mexico City.

December 2011:
PhoScope participates in a Roundtable Discussion at the Theatre de la Ville with Jeanne Bloch and Prue Lang in an event sponsored by Imagine 2020.