"From white helmets to white coats"

02 february 2024
The plant in Ryazan has seen many visitors over its 25+ years of operation, but student groups are always a particular delight. Future architects and designers from Moscow Architectural Institute and Russian State University of Art and Industry named after. S.G. Stroganov are representatives of creative professions.

It is not enough for them to see a large hangar, a group of working employees and a lot of iron. The guys are interested in every detail: how the space is organized, how navigation helps in work and affects the speed of production, how workplaces are designed and, most importantly, how employees relax.

Among the participants in the excursion was a respected lighting designer, teacher of “Environmental Design” at the Moscow Architectural Institute - Dmitry Sukachev, who worked at SLV and visited European production sites. He described the plant very flatteringly on social networks:
“The entire company is imbued with the spirit of creativity. The workers themselves came up with the appearance of the lamps for their workshops, and then made them themselves. The laboratory staff designed and built many of the test benches themselves. So the Germans with their ordung nervously smoke on the sidelines. They don’t care about our creative approach.”
But the key, of course, was the theme of light. Participants saw the full production cycle of LED lamps from idea to implementation, including: casting housings, assembling components, installing LEDs on printed circuit boards and, of course, testing samples in the factory laboratory.

There are a lot of impressions, and it’s not always possible to express thoughts and emotions in text, so at the end of the excursion, the organizers from the Training Center held a competition for the best photo of the plant. It was possible not only to distribute memorable souvenirs and entertain the participants, but also to focus their attention on details that most people simply overlook when visiting “Lighting Technologies”.

We thank the Department of Architectural Physics of the Moscow Architectural Institute, lighting designer and head of the educational project “Light Laboratory"Anastasia Prikhodko, as well as a teacher at the Russian State University of Arts and Sciences named after. S.G. Stroganov Inozemtseva Elena.