About
WEDO Lighting is a professional architectural lighting design practice. We believe everyone is an artist in their life. We craft lighting dialogues that integrate local identity and bring harmony to people and their surroundings. Our lighting design aims to balance functionality, emotion, and sustainability. With strong roots in theatre arts, our team weaves culture, nature, and human experience to form unique lighting environments. Through storytelling and circular design, we create lighting that flows seamlessly from day to night and blends local culture with a contemporary spirit.
We believe that lighting design is an exploratory process with "no standard answers." With a sense of "going with the flow," we construct a space that resonates with people both physiologically and psychologically, achieving a balance between needs and feelings.
The planning of the lighting environment should integrate the aesthetics of artificial lighting with the charm of the natural surroundings. We believe that the interpretation of the lighting environment should echo the surrounding natural landscape ecology and historical and cultural context, while reflecting the activity patterns of people within the space.
Nanhua Glimmer
A’design Award Gold
Muse Award Gold
Nanhua Glimmer reimagines an abandoned school campus in Pingtung as a luminous public park designed for community life and intergenerational connection. The lighting draws inspiration from regional landscapes and pineapple cultivation, a symbol of local identity, translating them into geometric forms. Mist and glimmer reinterpret local collective memory, recalling mountain ridges veiled in clouds. By night, subtle lighting and water mist create an ethereal atmosphere that balances stargazing, and community interaction. The project received both the Golden A’Design Award and Muse Design Award.
Glimmer Guesthouse
2025 Darc Award Shortlist
The former miner dormitory perched on the mountainside of Jinguashi bears the marks of Taiwan’s mining era. Its restoration project aimed to preserve old traces and create new scenery. The old building was transformed into a unique accommodation experience. Travellers are not simply staying in a guesthouse, but entering a story about light, time, and land. Instead of uniform brightness, light orchestrates the experience with theatrical layering. Warm tones reflect the timber roof structure to preserve the building’s unique atmosphere. The lighting design responds to the site’s heritage while ensuring sustainability. Between day and night, light and shadow create a captivating and fleeting “magical moment” that invites travellers to slow down and embrace the space.
Yancheng First Public Retail Market
2025 LIT Lighting Design Award
Taipei Design Award Silver
The Yancheng First Public Retail Market was built after World War II and has been an important part of daily life in southern Taiwan. It developed into a center of community exchange over seven decades. However, younger generations were discouraged by its outdated infrastructure and inadequate lighting. The goal of the revitalization project was to bring architectural heritage back to life and establish a vibrant marketplace that fosters local business and connects generations. The project received a Silver Award at the Taipei Design Awards and 2025 LIT Lighting Design Award.
Mineless
2024 Dazzen Award
This project turned abandoned mining ruins into a cultural space through lighting. The design was inspired by historical artefacts, using handmade luminaires made from reclaimed glass, metal, and industrial remains. Rather than fully illumination, the light emerges subtly from cracks and edges to create an atmosphere of “discovered light.” The goal was not to hide the site’s scars, but to honor its memory. The project maintained the site’s raw spirit while ensuring safety, atmosphere, and durability. It received a Dazzen Award.
Springpool Glass Factory
This project transforms an active glass manufacturing facility into a “semi-factory,” where production, education, and exhibition coexist. The lighting design bridges the raw industrial character with refined cultural display, contrasting the sensual flow of molten glass with the rational structure of machinery. Light becomes the connecting element between factory operations, visitor experience, and storytelling. The project turns an industrial site into a cultural landmark. Light makes an overlooked industry visible and meaningful. Light documents the material’s journey from broken shards to renewed transparency, while symbolizing the rebirth of material, craft, and culture.
Kuo's Astral Bookshop
2025 Top 100 Culture Bases
The restoration project transformed a century-old historic landmark into a modern bookshop. The lighting design honored its merchant history and family legacy by enriching the space’s cultural identity. Light is not only illumination but also a vessel to keep past memories alive while creating cozy reading experiences for visitors drawn to this cultural haven. The visual centerpiece is the custom Rice-Dòu Pendant. It takes inspiration from traditional Taiwanese standard rice-measuring tools that represented harvests and everyday life during the building’s merchant era. It marks a poetic transformation, where rice was once weighed to sustain the body, and now light measures the wealth of knowledge that nourishes the mind.
Floating
2016 Darc Award Shortlist
Light is the concept of "passing through," just like this temporary building, which is light's depiction of a quiet and floating scene. The installation creates imagery of both suspension and buoyancy, and lightness and weight to suggest a breezy afternoon filled with dancing light. The architects explored the weight limitations of the plaza and responded to the wind that constantly blew across it. WEDO presents a “canopy of light” that shifts appearances as time passes between the ground and the sky, from sunshine to nightfall.
Heito 1909
2023 LIT Lighting Design Award
London Design Award Silver
The Heito 1909 project turned an abandoned sugar factory into Taiwan’s first industrial heritage park. Covering 860,000 m2, the site had been closed to the public since 1909 and became neglected after the factory shut down in the 1990s. The lighting design aimed to reflect the site’s history, blend with its architecture, and enable light, space, and people to tell the story together. Today, the park serves as an open-air museum and gathering place for the city. The project received the LIT Lighting Design Award and the London Design Award (Silver).
House of Takao Ginza
2021 Taiwan Lighting Environment Award
Old spaces should naturally exude their charm, and lighting fixtures should rightfully provide aesthetic appeal and illumination day and night. Each object remains in its proper place, with only its internal components cleverly replaced to transform it into a modern light source, continuing its legacy for the next generation.
Our Team
We are dedicated to creating high-quality lighting environments that coexist peacefully with the natural landscape. In this era of depleted resources and environmental imbalance, we take on greater social responsibility through upcycled lighting, practicing sustainable design for a circular lifestyle.
Lead Lighting Designer
Chi-Yang Chiang began his career in lighting design and technology with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, where he mastered how theatrical lighting can shape emotion and spatial dynamics. Returning to everyday environments, he applies light as a medium to sculpt both space and atmosphere, from historic building renovations and neighbourhood illumination to urban lighting strategies.
Chi-Yang is an IALD and CLD member.
Photo credit: Wang Te-Fan
Photo credit: Chen You-Wei
Awards
Our work in lighting environment planning and lighting design has won numerous awards in Taiwan and abroad, including the Taiwan Lighting Environment Awards, the Italian A’design Award Gold Award, the American Muse Gold Award, the London Design Award Silver Award, the LIT Lighting Design Awards, the Taipei Design Award Silver Award, and the Japanese Good Design Award.
