Luciano Zucchi Bursary

The Luciano Zucchi Bursary is a £6,250 award established in memory of Luciano Zucchi (1931-2022), a renowned industrial designer specializing in light. The bursary supports students pursuing postgraduate studies in Light and Lighting at UCL's Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. The scholarship encourages students to think about lighting, natural and artificial, in the broadest way possible with sensitivity to creative choreography of light, texture, and shadow. The award is open to both current Light and Lighting MSc students and those with offers to study Light and Lighting MSc or Environmental Design and Engineering MPhil/PhD with a focus on Light and Lighting. Applicants must demonstrate alignment with the scholarship's motivation through a written statement and design portfolio showing design aptitude and appreciation of the human response to light. The selection process includes submission of portfolio work and may require an in-person interview for shortlisted candidates. Luciano Zucchi was Director of Design at Concord lighting for over 20 years, where he designed iconic products including Tubetrack (which won a Design Council Award in 1977 and is now in the V&A Museum collection), Silverspan fluorescent light, and Lytespan track system. This scholarship exists to provide support that did not exist in his day and to encourage recipients to think holistically about lighting design, from product design to integration within buildings.