Shine a Light III: Stories of Lighting and Australian Legacy

Participants

Ilze Kundzina, ARUP
Ilze is a passionate lighting designer at Arup, known for creating thoughtful, high-quality lighting solutions that enrich spaces and support the people who use them. With broad local and international experience, she has worked across hospitality, urban masterplanning, heritage sites, and luxury hotel brands. Her local work focuses on commercial and education projects, as well as improving perceptions of safety in urban environments after dark. Beyond project work, Ilze is a strong advocate for women in the industry and recently served as an ambassador for Women in Lighting. She has a particular interest in how lighting affects human wellbeing, and strives to shape nighttime environments that feel balanced, safe, and welcoming.

Horatio Burton, Electrolight
Horatio Burton is a Senior Lighting Designer at Electrolight - a multi-award winning, international lighting design consultancy firm. With over fourteen years of experience as a designer, Horatio brings strong conceptual lighting design and bespoke lighting skills to the team. Horatio has experience in running large projects across a wide range of sectors including Hotel, F&B and public realm developments. He believes a key role of a lighting designer is to guide collaboration between the Client, Architect, Interior Designer and Building contractor to meet the key lighting design aspirations of the project, and this is essential to a successful outcome. Horatio's background in Industrial Design and Lighting design allows him to bring custom lighting solutions to projects, including considerable experience in custom-designed luminaires and light sculptures.

Laura Turner, COX Architecture
Laura Turner is National Regenerative Design Lead at COX Architecture and a Living Future Accredited Professional on a mission to weave buildings back into the living fabric of Country. As a panel member of the Living Future Institute’s Biophilic Design Initiative and a steering-committee voice for the Melbourne Regenerative Design Forum, she champions design relationships that let people, place, and more-than-human life flourish together. Trained as an architect, Laura pairs craft with curiosity—constantly asking how every project can listen to nature and give something good back.