The 2D urban lantern has only two dimensions, it has no depth, it only develops on a flat surface, as if it were a drawing written in the sky. Its shape is visible and invisible depending on how the designers places it in the space. An element that manifests its presence only when it lights up, integrating discreetly into the urban context. Urban lanterns contribute to giving cities an identity, they are signs that remain imprinted in the culture of collective memory, becoming part of the narration of urban life.

First I am a woman, a human being who has a duty to help others and the area in which I live, as best I can, then I became a lighting designer. The combination of my education, training and profession have helped me to create two initiatives of which I am very proud. The first project is called Re-think, Re-cycle, Re-lighting and it is a social project that I created for the APIL association of which I belong. The other project is for the territory and precisely to safeguard the small villages overlooking Lake Maggiore and is the Light Festival Lago Maggiore.

Bianca Tresoldi is a lighting designer, for over thirty years she has been involved in architectural lighting design for urban and private space. She loves the aesthetic composition of places and signs conceived with awareness and armory in spaces which, by generating vibrations, are responsible for our perception of well-being. Visionary of a better word, she is convinced that the personal contribution of each single person is essential for chance. She was the creator of Light Festival Lago Maggiore and is the author of the socially useful initiative Ri-pensa, Ri-cicla, Ri-lighting by APIL (Associazione Professionisti Illuminazione) sidelined realities that are transformed by light environments capable of improving the quality of people’s lives.