Students put on a light show in Jönköping

A lot of people came to experience September Lights in central Jönköping on the evening of 28 September. The lighting event was organized by students studying the Lighting Design and Technology programme at the School of Engineering (JTH) at Jönköping University (JU) together with Jönköping Municipality.

This year's theme for September Lights was water, and the students spread light over the pier, the marina and Hotellplan in Jönköping. Visitors were invited to walk along the marina and pier where, among other things, trees and ice cream stalls were illuminated in bright colors. Homemade jellyfish hung from lampposts, neon-coloured fish were displayed against a wall and illuminated water washed over the pier wall. Illuminated water lilies bobbed in the water and a diving woman was depicted with the help of flashing silhouettes at the lighthouse.

From hapiness to drama

“Our idea was that you would walk from the happy and beautiful water in the harbour out towards the dramatic and slightly scary water at the far end of the lighthouse,” says Tove Svedell, one of the students who worked on September Light.

“We wanted to convey a cool and powerful experience with flashing and moving light,” says Otto Eneroth, and classmate to Tove.

They thought it was fun to build and set up a real lighting event and show it to people.

"A completely different look"

“It was cool to be involved in giving the pier and the harbour a completely different look than they usually have this dark season. Lighting art is so abstract that it is difficult to have a clear message, it is more up to the viewer how they perceive it,” says Tove.

“We do not study lighting art much during our programme, but it is a big part of lighting design and it is nice to do something different sometimes,” says Otto Eneroth.