Report Lighting Design Working Group

In this post, we will introduce you to Work Package 2 – Lighting Design, highlighting its role in the CANON II project and sharing what we have been working on over the past few months. Written by Isabel Nielen. What will work package 2 achieve? The task of the Lighting Design Working Group is to investigate lighting design as a new area in the […]

The role of the data group within CANON II

In this post, we will introduce you to Work Package 5, the data group, highlighting their role in the CANON II-project and sharing what they have been working on over the past few months. Written by Emma Reynders. First of all, what exactly is Work Package 5? Work Package 5 – also referred to as the […]

Anders Larsson 1959 – 2026

It is with great sadness and sorrow that we announce the sudden passing of lighting designer Anders Larsson. For many of us, Anders was more than a colleague – he was a friend, a driving force, and a natural focal point. Since […]

CANON II talk at Scandlight 2026 Stockholm

Canon II project team gave a talk at the international lighting design conference Scandlight in Sweden on june 9. Talking about the project research and the lessons learned so far.

Three inspiring days: Amsterdam, January 2026

A report by Yasmin Claes (BE) In January 2026, after our first start-up Canon II meeting in Brussels, the team met again in Amsterdam. It was a chance to dive deeper into our research, exchange ideas, and visit a few […]

PARSIFAL and Antroposphy

Among the case studies in the scenography section is a production of *Parsifal* at the Goetheanum in Dornach, near Basel. Rudolf Steiner’s vision of staging this opera there was realised almost 100 years after his death. Richard Wagner’s final work, […]

3D-Scan – virtual documentation of collection-objects

When it comes to documenting objects, the topic of 3D scanning is becoming increasingly interesting. Canon II is checking the feasibility of these option. Smartphone apps make this technology accessible to virtually everyone, even without the need for expensive specialist […]

Canon project first working meeting in Amsterdam

March 2026 post from Sweden by Anders Larson. At the beginning of the year, it became clear that STTF, the Swedish OISTAT, together with a number of theatre technical organisations and universities, had received approval for the Erasmus+ project Canon II […]

CUE TALK CANON II: from performance to archive—how knowledge is preserved

Report on the CANON II lecture at CUE by Isabel Nielen from the Netherlands. On Wednesday 14 January at CUE 2026, Bastiaan Schoof (NL) and Chris van Goethem (BE) gave a lecture on CANON II: preserving the heritage of lighting designers, […]

Theatre Construction Knowledge – Objects, Media and Discourse between the German Empire and the Cold War

Jan Lazardzig / Bri Newesely / Kerstin Wittmann-Englert / Franziska Ritter / Halvard Schommartz / Marie-Charlott Schube (eds.) 17 × 24 cm, 304 pages, 80 colour illustrations ISBN 978-3-98612-083-2 As public buildings, theatres are a prominent arena for ideological conflicts, […]

Allard Pierson – 100 years of theatre collection – 27, 28 February 2025

On February 28, 2025, Chris van Goethem and Bastiaan Schoof presented the Canon II project at the symposium “100 Years of Theatre Collection” at the Allard Pierson museum in Amsterdam. All speakers discussed the past and present of this collection, […]

Talk iLo, 18 October 2024

In Oktober 2024, iLo (Institute of Lightdesign) invited Chris van Goethem to talk about the Canon II project to the iLo audience. The talks are mostly attended by lightdesigners, light experts, scenographers, students and teachers. This time we specially invited […]