Katia
Kolovea
Katia Kolovea is a lighting designer, communication strategist, and advocate of the lighting design profession. Her passion for light, people, and the creation of engaging and immersing experiences led her to start her business Archifos.
Archifos started as a blog, evolved into a personal brand, and in the last year, it has been focusing on the intersection of lighting design, experiential marketing, and engaging communications.
When she is not designing interactive and immersive lighting experiences, Katia collaborates with businesses in the lighting industry to support them communicate their brand and services in a meaningful, innovative, and personalised way, online and offline.
Her work as a designer has been awarded with a darc award and was honored with the 40under40 lighting award in 2019. Katia has been involved in various community-based and educational projects of the lighting industry. She loves storytelling, public speaking, and bringing the right people together. Katia is the founder of the Lighting Police, an educational platform with the mission to raise awareness about the importance of the right light to the general public. She is a team member of the global Women in Lighting Community managing all social media communications, a Judge of the LIT design awards, and recently elected as a council member of the Society of Light and Lighting.