EMERGING LIGHTS 

The 2026 edition cements the Emerging Lights programme as a firm fixture at LuzMadrid, reinforcing its commitment to serving as a platform for promoting new creators and strengthening a collaborative ecosystem with some of the city’s top design schools. As a creative, conceptual and technical medium, light forms the basis of a training process developed during the first semester by students from the Madrid School of Design (ESD), UDIT University of Design, Innovation and Technology, IED – European Institute of Design and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), who create site-specific installations for Central de Diseño which are part of the festival’s official programme. In Emerging Lights, LuzMadrid brings together education, cultural production and the city, providing students with a real-world framework for experimentation and exchange with other creators and forms of artistic expression.

EntreLUZ stems from a very simple yet powerful idea: working with light—something we normally see but never actually touch—from a physical, tactile perspective. The installation takes us on an immersive journey through layers of fabric that make light tangible. An image fragments as visitors moves forward and drawings and videos are projected onto the fabric, giving rise to an interplay of shadows, vibrations and movements which respond to both the space itself and the visitors’ bodies.

*INSTALLATION SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR LUZMADRID 2026

The undergraduate degree in Interior Design at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) provides training with a spatial, constructive, and functional focus, combining design, architecture, materials, and technology. The students who created the piece are: Irene Adanero Jiménez, Paula Baltes González, Nerea Katherine Campoverde Buri, Gabrielle del Campo Mujuru, Blanca Huerta Peláez, Candela Jiménez Muñoz, Paula Llorente Herrero, Alexandra Luisa Macwilliams Velarde, Álvaro Martín Corredor, Isabel Mejía Rodrigues, Lluc Ramos Vaamonde and Rocío Fernández de Córdoba Vélez. They were mentored by: M. Luz del Águila Cazorla, Fco. Javier Carabaño Rodriguez, Nacho Ruiz Ordovás, Carlos Sánchez Alonso and Antonio Vela Cossío.

Artistic creation and production: Students: Irene Adanero Jiménez, Paula Baltés González, Nerea Katherine Campoverde Buri, Gabrielle del Campo Mujuru, Rocío Fernández de Córdoba Vélez, Blanca Huerta Peláez, Candela Jiménez Muñoz, Paula Llorente Herrero, Alexandra Luisa Macwilliams Velarde, Álvaro Martín Corredor, Isabel Mejía Rodrigues, Lluc Ramos Vaamonde.

And the tutors: M. Luz del Águila Cazorla, Fco. Javier Carabaño Rodriguez, Nacho Ruiz Ordovás, Carlos Sánchez Alonso, Antonio Vela Cossío.