Ximena Munoz Abogabir

Chilean Architect and Lighting Designer, President of the Chilean Association of Lighting Professionals. She studied Light Design in Milan in 2005 and when she returned to Chile, she founded LUXIA, a light design studio focused on architectural lighting, product design and light art.

Her first project was a 3D lighting system called Anemix, exhibited on Salone Satellite Milan, on 2007 and 2009. On 2008, she developed Harrods´s windows for “Senses” campaign. On 2015 she made a solo exhibition called “Células” (Cells), exploring modular natural shapes with projection and DMX lighting.

Ximena has been developing architectural lighting since 2006. Some of her projects are: Santiago National Library 2009, Izakaya Restaurant at JW Marriot Marquis Dubai 2012, Espacio Riesco Convention Center 2011, Liguria Restaurant 2014 and Movistar Arena 2018.

Also she has developed lighting products and solar lighting. On 2010, she developed a modular solar light called SULI, which won two design and innovation prizes in Chile.

Since 2013, she started teaching light design in the university and shortly after, she decided to give lessons in her personal studio. On 2018, she founded CILUZ, a Light Research Center, that create awareness and promote actions about the effects of light in the integral well-being and human development. From there, she collaborates with different public and private institutions in the criteria and project developments that improve life quality.