16:30 – 17:00
BURNING MAN

Stage: MAIN STAGE
Format: Power Presentation
Track: Supranormal

Why do approximately 70,000 people trek into the desert every year and build communities away from the rat race? Perhaps because it’s an intensely human thing to do and because they are hoping for genuine encounters with like-minded people.

Profile
Fascinated by the subject of light, Prof. Stefan Hofmann has devoted himself since his studies of scenography and exhibition design to working with this medium in the context of space and architecture.
Stefan Hofmann is a lighting designer and managing director of Lichtwerke GmbH, Cologne, with more than 20 years of experience in the fields of architectural lighting planning (core area), theatre lighting and light art work.
Many projects such as the Boris Jelzin Presidential Center, Ekaterinburg Russia [German Lighting Design Award 2018, IES “Award of Merit” 2018, SEGD “Award of Merit” 2018, both USA], AEB Headquarters, Stuttgart [German Lighting Design Award 2018], Maredo Steakhaus Gendarmenmarkt Berlin [IES “Award of Merit” 2017, USA] have received national and international awards.
Since 2009 he has headed the Chair of Light Planning and Performing Arts at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences in the Department of Building and Design for Architects and Interior Architects.