Emotional Artifacts explores light as an emotional and spatial language, beyond its purely technical dimension. The workshop invites students to consider light as a material capable of awakening memory, transforming the perception of time, and generating meaningful atmospheres. Through a sensitive and progressive approach, light becomes a vector of pleasure, emotion, and architectural experience.
Conceived as a five-day journey, the workshop unfolds through a continuous movement from perception to materialization: sensing, conceptualizing, and giving form. Students experiment with light in an intuitive and sensory way, observing daylight and nighttime conditions, reflecting on intimate experiences, and testing simple devices. The work culminates in the production of models conceived as emotional artifacts, condensing a personal vision of light as a source of joy and atmosphere.
Juan Velasquez is a light designer whose work explores light as a sensitive and expressive material, at the intersection of space, emotion, and lived experience. Through design and teaching, he develops an approach in which light is conceived as a language capable of revealing atmospheres and enriching architecture through poetic and sensory qualities.
