EMERGING LIGHTS – SYNAXCAPE
UDIT Universidad de Diseño Innovación y Tecnología
Spain
From 12 to 14 March
From 5pm to midnight
Central de Diseño / Matadero Madrid. DIMAD (interior)
FREE ADMISSION UNTIL CAPACITY IS REACHED
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). 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.
This interactive installation brings body, light and architecture into a radical exchange with each other. Viewers interact with a central geometrical sculpture which resembles a neural network and is activated with light and sound based on their movements. Synaxcape is an installation that redefines the relationship between individual, collective and system, while serving as a metaphor for the relationships of the Anthropocene, diversity, structural crisis and the climate emergency.
*INSTALLATION SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR LUZMADRID 2026
UDIT is a private university in Madrid which specialises in design, innovation and technology. Its educational model and the approach of its Interior Design degree combine creativity, critical thinking and technical training, with a focus on practical application and professional development. Synaxcape was developed for LuzMadrid 2026 by a team comprised of Ainhoa Pérez, Amelia González Ortiz, Sara Madrid Antón, Pedro Cerisola and Javier F. Gorostiza.
UDIT – University of Design, Innovation and Technology in collaboration with Estudio Cerisola + Robita Lab
Academic Development and Tutoring:
Javier F. Gorostiza (UDIT Lecturer and Researcher · Principal Investigator, ROBITA-LAB)
Pedro Cerisola (Estudio Cerisola · UDIT Lecturer)
Academic Participation:
Ainhoa Pérez
Amelia González Ortiz
Sara Madrid Antón
(Students of the Bachelor’s Degree in Product Design, UDIT)
Conceptualization:
Pedro Cerisola
Javier F. Gorostiza
Structural Design:
Estudio Cerisola
Lighting Design, Programming, and Electronic Systems:
Javier F. Gorostiza
Academic Coordination:
Javier Sanz (Director of the Bachelor’s Degree in Product Design, UDIT)
Ainhoa Pérez
Location
Central de Diseño, run by the Madrid Designers Association (DIMAD), is a space devoted to the dissemination, research and promotion of contemporary design. The building that houses it, Nave 17 of Matadero Madrid, was part of the industrial complex originally designed in the early 20th century by Luis Bellido, and it retains the Neo-Mudéjar industrial architecture that distinguishes the entire site, with an open-plan structure and exposed brick.
With the collaboration of
