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We're excited to bring you Yah Li Toh's fascinating keynote presentation, "Exploring Biophilic Design: a Balance for People and Nature." Which was recorded at the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, June 2023.

Yah Li takes us on an insightful journey through her biophilic design project in Singapore within the hotel space, sharing the triumphs and challenges she and her team faced. 

“In biophilic design, as lighting designers we need to bridge the gap in the different conditions considering the wellbeing of the guests and not having excessive light for the plants.”

“Usually grow lights are not well suited for the hotel setting.  They consume a lot of energy and have poor optical control.  We researched many brands to be able to understand this and to find something where we could control the beam, something that’s focussed. The best part is, that everyone told us they could produce grow lights!”— Yah Li Toh

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Yah Li's background in architectural lighting design and extensive experience has helped her receive commendations, like being named a top 40 under 40 lighting designer by the Lighting Design Awards 2019. Additionally, Yah Li is involved in the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) as the regional coordinator for IALD SEA.

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Be sure to also listen to our interview with Yah Li and get her thoughts on the GILE 2023 event and more. 

More by Yah Li on VLDC:

Yah Li was one of our early Thought Leaders and provided us a brilliant presentation in Season One, The Business of Lighting Design on Light Design Practice: A Survivors Guide. 👀

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Introducing Fanny Soulard: A One-on-One Conversation with a Senior Lighting Designer at Aurecon

In a recent post, we had the privilege of sharing Fanny Soulard's enlightening keynote presentation on light pollution from the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition in China in June 2023. Following the positive response to her thought-provoking talk, VLDC was fortunate enough to have an exclusive interview with Fanny Soulard. This one-on-one conversation provided an opportunity to delve deeper into her professional journey and learn more about her notable achievements.

“It’s very important when we are commissioning a project to not just stick with the concept. We should continually question and check whether we can improve always a little bit.” — Fanny Soulard

For those who may not be familiar, Fanny Soulard, a French native, is a senior lighting designer at Aurecon, based in Vietnam. With a passion for sustainable lighting solutions and a wealth of expertise in the field, Fanny has made significant contributions to the industry.

To gain a comprehensive understanding of Fanny's background and accomplishments, you can refer to the previous post, which contains her background as well as her keynote presentation on light pollution and the impact of excessive misdirected and obtrusive light. 

Stay tuned as we delve into Fanny Soulard's insights, experiences, and perspectives in this exclusive interview, allowing us to get to know her a little better. 

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Gerindra Chair Prabowo Subianto is showing ‘buyer’s remorse’.  By all accounts the three time presidential hopeful is casting about for a running mate who can add vigor to his so far lackluster campaign.  Polls show Prabowo – with near 100 percent name recognition – backsliding while Central Java Gov Ganjar Pranowo clearly leads in multiple credible surveys. National Awakening Party (PKB) Chair Muhaimin Iskandar is expecting the VP nomination but Prabowo is dragging his feet on setting up the inter-party secretariat that will help the coalition plan the 2024 presidential campaign.  PKB is the unofficial political vehicle for Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) – the world’s biggest Islamic organization. 

Alienating Iskandar puts at risk his sway with a vast constituency of moderate Muslim voters.  Also on the pod: the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) is finally in the news, largely due a government‑sanctioned Congress of Women Islamic Leaders.  And Michael Smith, Northeast Asia correspondent for the Australian Financial Review joins to discuss the escalating protests against China’s Covid restrictions, the outlook for President Xi Jinping and a deteriorating investment case for an economy many considered the factory for the world.

Known to be one of the most haunted locations in all of China, maybe even all of the world, so you know Davis is going to be gasping a lot. The Forbidden City in Beijing, China is the subject of our latest episode. This historic, scary, and downright forbidden location .

Listen as Davis tries his hardest to give us a break from this episode. Listen to Jake tell us the most we have gotten from any of these locations for Haunted China. And Lisa does a majority of the work in this location that is chalk full of some intense history.

You don't want miss this episode. There is just so much that the Forbidden City has to offer for a story. It's important not only to Chinese culture and history, but to human history. All that and so much more on TPPP 50: Forbidden City, Beijing. Your favorite comedic, educational, and paranormal podcast, possibly.

 Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover a lot more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com). 

This week, we discuss: 

1. China’s 1st EVA with Tianhe (and 2nd ever Chinese EVA)
2. A Plethora of launches in a Single Week
3. Guangzhou & Tianjin Add Satellite Internet to their Development Plans 

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Welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Aero/Space News Roundup! In this week's episode we bring you:

1) Chang’e-5 Lunar Return Mission
Tuesday morning (24/11 Beijing time) saw the launch of Chang’e-5 at Wenchang Launch Center in Hainan. The launch was a success, and represents China’s first lunar sample-return mission. It is also the first sample-return mission since the Soviet Luna 24 mission in 1976. After a number of maneuvers in its Earth-Moon trajectory, the spacecraft successfully entered lunar orbit.

2) China Satcom replacing older broadcast satellites
An article by Satellite World revealed that China Satcom would be replacing a number of older broadcast satellites in 2021-2023. All satellites would be purchased from CAST, and based on the DFH-4E platform. The satellites would launch on LM-3B, China’s current workhorse for GEO. The transaction was said to reach 3,918 billion RMB (approx 600 million USD).

Below is a list of the satellites:
Chinasat 6D (to replace 6A; C & Ku band payloads)
Chinasat 6E (to replace 6B; C & Ku band payloads)
Chinasat 9B (to replace 9A; Ku BSS band payloads)

In addition, the Chinasat 26 (Ka band) satellite will be a welcome addition to the currently operational Chinasat-16, the Shijian-20, and the future Chinasat-19.

3) The Trump Administration could blacklist 89 companies with “military ties”
According to Reuters, the Trump administration is preparing to blacklist 89 Chinese companies, including a large number of major aviation companies such as COMAC (building the C919) and the aerospace conglomerate AVIC. U.S. suppliers will ”need special licenses to sell a broad set of commercially available items to such companies” according to the piece by Reuters.
Are we heading towards a “post-Cox Report” situation for aviation as well?
If this blacklist is made official and effective before the Biden administration take-over, this could lead to a total disruption of the civil aviation industry in China. The blacklist bears a strong resemblance to the restrictions US space companies faced when selling to China, after the Cox Report in 1998. The consequences on both sides would be more massive for aviation:
- China is no small market to Boeing. It represents 20% of the entire global commercial aviation market, and where Boeing is a dominant player alongside Airbus.
- The disruption would be devastating for the Chinese civil aviation market.  While China’s local supply chain has grown tremendously, it still depends heavily on non-Chinese suppliers. Aircraft like the C919 are likely to come to a full stop.

4) CASIC Methalox Engine
Expace released photos of its Mingfeng methalox engine earlier this week. The engine completed a systems-level hot test, with the test verifying the integrity of the engine system, thrust chamber, combustor, turbo pump, valve, and final assembly.

Expace is more famous up to this point for having developed the KZ-1A fast-response solid rocket. With the KZ-1A, Expace has built a pretty reliable, fast-response rocket that can be deployed using a transporter erector launcher. 

5) World 5G Convention in Guangzhou
The World 5G Convention opened in Guangzhou last week. During the Convention, the Chief Designer of BeiDou 3rd Generation, Yang Changfeng, noted that all core components of BeiDou-3 were being manufactured domestically. Yang also noted that around 80% of phones in China are now equipped with BeiDou-3 chip sets. Yang linked BeiDou-3 with 5G by noting that many elements of 5G will rely on highly precise location data. 

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This show has been regularly discussing Beijing’s support for sustainable development initiatives, its provision of aid, technical expertise and finance to developing counties under the South-South Cooperation umbrella, and the numerous infrastructure projects that China is undertaking in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia as part of the Belt and Road Initiative.

A common goal in several of the episodes in this season of the podcast has been to nuance the understanding of China’s recent activities, better understand its motives and reflect on its future strategies and actions. Much of the recent focus in Western media reports on China has focused on the damage that Covid has done to Beijing’s reputation abroad. There have also been growing concerns on how Beijing will react to certain countries defaulting on the huge loans that it has provided for infrastructure construction. But not everyone shares such concerns. And indeed there are numerous voices that have highlighted Beijing’s support for multilateral institutions and its ability to finance and undertake major development projects that the West has long neglected. 

Guest: Eric Olander is the co-founder of the China Africa project, an independent multimedia organization that explores China’s engagement with Africa. He is a journalist with over three decades of experience reporting, producing and managing newsrooms for some of the world’s leading media organizations including CNN, and the BBC World Service. Eric speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and has a Master’s degree in International Public Affairs with a focus on Chinese foreign policy from the University of Hong Kong. He also hosts a very popular weekly China in Africa podcast.

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Welcome to another episode of the China Aerospace Weekly News Roundup! This week, we cover two interesting developments in EO and launch:

1) A big week in EO
It  was a big week in China’s EO and meteorology sector. First,  China launched the Gaofen-13 EO satellite at just after midnight on Monday 12 October. It is the second Gaofen satellite bound for geostationary orbit, an interesting choice and a must-have for any sufficiently large EO constellation. Gaofen-13 is the latest in China’s Gaofen constellation, a primarily civil constellation of EO satellites of which there are currently ~20 satellites (depending on whether one defines the Jilin-Gaofen series, operated by Charming Globe, as part of the Gaofen series). The launch was the first in a couple of months for Xichang, with the launch center having undergone a series of upgrades to increase its annual launch capacity from around 17 to 30.

Somewhat related to Gaofen, China’s Fengyun meteorological EO satellites celebrated their 50th anniversary this week. Chinese Premier (#2 most powerful politician) Li Keqiang wrote a statement on the importance of Fengyun, and Hu Chunhua (Vice Premier of CCP) attended an event for Fengyun. Premier Li’s statement was featured prominently on CASC’s homepage, and is seen as a high-level endorsement of the program more generally.


2) Developments on a deal between Guangzhou and the CAS
The Municipal Government of the southern city of Guangzhou and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) had signed an agreement in 2019 to jointly build a 99-square-kilometer Nansha Science City in Nansha (a rural district of Guangzhou). Several space institutes & companies will open facilities there, including CAS Spaceflight Technology Center (research) and the Zhongke Aerospace Exploration company (commercial launch company). On September 29 2020, the Zhongke Aerospace conference was held there, officially kicking off the construction of the project.

Zhongke Aerospace, aka CAS Space, is a CAS spin-off with main headquarters in Beijing. The company plans to develop solid & liquid rockets, aiming at 30 rockets per year by an undefined timeline. Liquid rockets seem reusable (see rocket family infographic on YT).

The move is interesting because the space industry of Guangdong has historically punched below its weight. Guangdong is a province of 100M people, the GDP is roughly as big as Russia or South Korea, and it is home to many of the world’s biggest tech companies--Huawei, Tencent, ZTE, Ping’an, DJI BYD, etc. The economy of Guangdong has historically been more “commercial”/export oriented, however, which has contributed to relatively limited space activity. With a major initiative such as the Nansha Science City, we may see the Guangdong space sector start to accelerate its development.


3) And another recent IPO company share price continued to “rocket”
Shaanxi Zhongtian, a CASC subsidiary that IPOed on 25 September, continues to go up the 10% daily limit every day, now (Monday 19 Oct) having reached 10 days in a row of +10%, i.e. 250%+ return since IPO (would be ~RMB 18.6 per share to RMB 48 per share). The company’s performance is an indication of probably three factors, namely: 1) lot of savings in China, 2) strong investor preference for state-owned companies that are seen as more stable, and 3) Few ways for average investors to invest into the space sector. The biggest winner here? Probably CASC, which has seen their stake in Zhongtian increase in value from ~RMB 1.5 billion to ~RMB 4 billion.

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In this episode of Tempor Footnotes, I'd like to welcome my friend Micah Malone. He is an artist, educator, and writer. He currently lives in Guangzhou, Southern China, with his wife and Cairo street dog, Dolly. We were able to discuss topics in education, technology, and our various experiences adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tempor Footnotes Podcast is a production of Studio WAC and Tempor Magazine. Our producer is Scott Cartwright, and Jenny Lynn Weitz is our art director. Simon Mathewson of Nul Tiel Records composed the music for this episode.  You can follow us on Twitter @tempormag and Instagram @tempormag. If you’d like to support the show, follow this link to make a donation. Thank you again for listening. 

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