Paulina Villalobos

Paulina is from the Atacama Desert, the driest, brightest & starriest place on earth, the natural perfect light and darkness guide her interest to study, work and promote lighting design with nature as a reference quality for day and night. In 2005 founded DIAV, a Architectural Lighting Design practice based in Santiago, Chile and developing Conceptual Design for Singapore.

In 2012 founded the Noche Zero initiative to change the paradigm for urban lighting planning, promoting the importance of lighting design and incorporating ecology, human health and light pollution control. Noche Zero has received the Dark Sky defender Award by IDA in 2012 & nominee for the Award at large in PLDC Copenhagen. The dissemination has reached 20+ countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. 

Recognized as an enthusiastic speaker, she is currently a Lighting Design professor for post-graduate programs at the University of Chile; been invited for conferences, classes  and seminars in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, China, USA, UK and Singapore.

Architect of the University of Chile
Master of Architectural Lighting Design, Technological University of Wismar, Germany.
Lighting Designer, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden
Expert in Urban Connectivity, United Nation Centre of Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan
Director of Darksky International, USA.
Core Member of Lighting Detectives, Japan
Chilean Ambassador for WIL, Women in Lighting.
Board Member The Zoological Lighting Institute, NY, USA.
Board Member Ciluz, Chile.
Member for the advisory committee for the light pollution lighting regulation for the protected zones, Chilean Ministry of Environment.
Member of IAC; Chinese Lighting Design Association, CLDA.
Writer of the outdoor lighting chapter for the guide of sustainable elements for the public realm (Chilean Chamber of Construction & Ministry of Urban Planning)
Consultant for the new regulation of interior lighting in Chile (Instituto de la Construcción).
Current consultant for regulatory review of the outdoor lighting in Chile (Ministry of Energy).
Board Member for the light pollution lighting regulation for the protected zones, Chilean Ministry of Environment.
Received Dora Riedel National Award for innovation, awarded for the first time by the Chilean Architects Association 2018.