Taman selected for the 2026 IES Industry Progress Report
The Illuminating Engineering Society has recognized the Taman Urban Lighting Design Platform as a unique and significant advancement to the art and science of lighting.
Recognition · Illuminating Engineering SocietyWe built Taman around a simple but uncomfortable idea: much of the light we put into our cities should never have been there in the first place. Today that idea received an important recognition.
The Taman Urban Lighting Design Platform has been selected for the 2026 IES Industry Progress Report. The Illuminating Engineering Society's Industry Progress Report Committee recognizes the submission as "a unique and significant advancement to the art and science of lighting".
Why this matters to us
For five years we have been developing a different approach to urban lighting. Instead of starting with a luminaire and asking where to put it, Taman starts with the city itself and calculates where light is actually needed, how much is needed, and where it should not go.
The objective is not simply greater efficiency. It is optimization: meeting the lighting standards while reducing unnecessary luminous flux, energy consumption, light spill and light pollution. Replacing an inefficient luminaire with an efficient LED is progress. Using only the light we actually need is the next step.
“Light where it is needed. Darkness where it belongs.”
Being recognized by the IES is a milestone for the whole team, and a strong confirmation that the way we design urban lighting can, and should, evolve. We are just getting started.
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Lighting designer with more than 35 years in architectural and urban lighting and over 50 international awards. Founder of Taman.
