- Africa Sabé Dausà is a lighting designer and architect based in Barcelona. She received a Master's in Lighting Design from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and has worked on various lighting installation art projects and competitions. - Currently, she works as a lighting designer at Santa & Cole Projects Department, where she has helped develop outdoor lighting projects and proposals. - Her goal is to continue learning and gaining experience in the field of lighting design in order to one day call herself a full Lighting Designer.

1. àfrica sabé dausà
Born in Barcelona the 22th of June 1987
Currently living at Carrer Artesania 6; 08470 Sant Celoni (Barcelona)
You can find me at:
“When people asks me who I am and how I work I never know what to answer,
I always have preferred to show my work and let it talk for me. I’m an architect,
a bit of an artist, and a team player, and I’d love to be able to call myself a
Lighting Designer in a near future. I am also very perfectionist, organized
and thirsty of new things. My dream is make things come true, small or big,
just make them true.”
May 30th, 2016

2. Formation:
- Master Lighting Design. Architectural lighting design. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona.
September 2015
- Architecture degree. Universitat de Girona. Girona. September 2013.
- Intensive course of Dialux. Grupo SEED Barcelona. April 2014 (20h)
- Course Touching wood: Wood structures. At Escola Politècnica Superior (UdG). Girona February 2013 (3
days)
- Workshop Lupercales, urban lighting and urban tactics. Barcelona February 2013 (one week)
- Course specialist in Adobe InDesign CS5. Seeway Barcelona. March-April 2012 (40h)
- Course of MiraMon standard (GIS). January 2011 (16h)
- Intensive course CAE (Certificate Advanced English) at LSI Cambridge. August - December 2010
- Summer course, tools and instruments in the landscape. Fundació UdG- FES Olot. Olot. July 2010 (4 days)
Professional experiences:
- Lighting designer at Santa & Cole Projects Department. From March 2015 – Currently working here.
- Lighting assistant at ARTEC3, one-month internship in the lighting design study during my master’s studies.
February-March 2015.
- Cofounder of ilallum SCP. Small company born at March 2014 where we offer services related to light and
architecture. Developing product and services and in charge of architetcural projects. - Currently with two
houses under construction.
- Collaboration with an Urban planning team in the redaction of: Pla d’Ordenació Urbanística Municipal
(POUM) de Susqueda (in charge of all Graphic documentation. Mostly plans). From 2013 to 2015
- Technical and legal counselor for a rural building and fields: Finca Can Pou de Pagès (Santa Maria de
Palautordera-Barcelona) as a freelance architect
- Architect assistant to Armand Garcia (Architect) Working as an employee and collaborating as a freelance
architect since July 2007 till today – Currently sharing projects.
- Collaboration with Taller d’arquitectura. In the rehabilitation project of a town building. Summer 2012
- Technical support for the program in the start-up of the building of Santa Caterina. Seat of the Government
of Catalonia in Girona. Girona. April-July 2010 (300h)
- Disseny 4 Sentits S. L., Girona. Interior design and architect assistant. Girona. January-December 2009
- Dot arquitectes. Architect assistant working on different projects and competitions and also helping in
administrative tasks. Sant Joan les Fonts and Girona. June 2006 – May 07
- Collaboration in the gathering and organizing of the opinions of neighbors and users in the remediation
project of the Frontissa Sant Eugènia Girona. July 2006
- CERSA MOLBLES S.L. (Group KIBUK). Part of the interior design team of the four furniture and hause
complements shops: Cornellà, Sant Feliu de Llobregat, el Prat de Llobregat and Castelldefels. Summer
2003
Projects and competitions:
- Lluèrnia 2015 – “Cosmos”. A Light art installation at this festival. Olot. November 2015
- LlumBCN 2015 – “Tempus Fugit”. Light Art installation made with all the students of the Lighting Design
masters course Directed by Toni Arola and Lola Solanilla. (February 2015)
- Lluèrnia 2014- Two light art installations for this festival, “La lluna en un cove” and “Encén el foc”. Olot.
November 2014
- Transformation and update of the shop Guacs in Sant Celoni. Interior design and corporative image project.
And coordination of the different participants in the remodelation. March – August 2014
- Girona Temps de Flors 2014: Art-floral installation “Explica’m un conte” Girona. May 2014
- Design and assembly of the 40th birthday exposition of the association “Gegants de Sant Esteve de
Palautordera”.Sant Esteve de Palautordera. October 2012
- Honour mention in the competition of Arch Medium “Repensar el Frente marítimo de Mallorca” November
2011
- Girona temps de flors 2011: Art-floral installation in the Bonastruc Ça Porta museum yard. Girona. May
2011
- Conceptual Project for the Bar of the Catalan govern delegation in Girona. Santa Caterina’s Building.
Girona. July 2010
- Preparació i muntatge de l’exposició dels treballs assignats a l’assignatura Urbanística III a la Demarcació de
Girona del Col·legi d’arquitectes de Catalunya. (Maig 2010)
- Girona Temps de Flors 2010 – SORGINT ... Inici del passeig arqueològic (maig 2010)
- Organització i coordinació del 1r concurs per a la participació dels estudiants d’arquitectura de l’EPS a
Girona temps de flors. (novembre 2009 - febrer 2010)
- Girona Temps de Flors 2009 – REFLEXIONS, Pati a la sala La Cova del Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Girona
- Girona Temps de flors 2008 – claustre del museu d’història de Girona (maig 2008)
- Muntatge de l’exposició de Toni Gironès “Vers un nou equilibri natural” en a la demarcació de Girona del
Col·legi d’arquitectes de Catalunya (primavera 2007)
Languages
- Native Catalan and Spanish
- Professional English.
- Understanding of French
Informatic tools
- Autocad professional
- Dialux
- Relux
- Litestar 10 (by Oxytech)
- InDesing
- Photoshop
- Illustrator (basics)
- Lightroom (basics)
- Adove Acrobat Professional
- MiraMon (GIS) (basics)
- Professional use of office and internet
Skills and qualities
- I’m very professional, responsible and committed.
- I have and try to learn and practice oral and presentation skills
- I do my best to be resourceful and intuitive
- Willing to learn and improve every day
- Drive license since May 2006

3. Let me tell you (better, show you) my sroty about ligh ... It all started with an installation
called “Reflexións” a Catalan word that means reflection and thought at the same time and that was the leitmotiv
and the result of playing with light, flowers and a vaulted space.
After this first experience I decided to learn about light. I joined the First Lupercales workshop in Barcelona.
After this hand on experience with light, fixtures, filters, candles, people, interaction, shades, darkness,... Light
became the story, it didn’t matter who where the main characters the light on it set the narrative. (Conte means
fairy tale)

4. Still in touch with the Lupercales people, I joined them in Chase the Dark 2015 in Barcelona. Making a lamp with
one sheet of paper 1 LED and 1 hour.
Take part in regional festivals it’s been a good training. In Lluèrnia 2015 we designed two actuatuins: “La Lluna en
un Cove” and “Encén el foc”.
From this concept to reality

5. Being clear to me that I want to work with light I decided to take part in the next lighting design masters studies
in Barcelona where I learned how to think with light and how to understand the spaces because of it. Being
an architect I always think with a pencil in my hand, sketching and writing notes in everything to me. Sketches
transform ideas into projects and projects became reality.
They also teach us the importance of mock ups. Light is a tricky material that needs to be confirmed in life as it will
easily surprise you. The more experience I had the more fascinated and hocked I was/am.

6. When we can not perform a Mock up modeling it’s also helpful, as a final project I revised the lighting on Plaça
Catalunya in Barcelona, nowadays the existing installation doesn’t get to sole the functional needs of the space.
So working with different layers of light I tried to design a lighting that encouraged the city citizens and visitors to
enjoy this amazing space and its history during the night. (Bellow: sketches of the concept and images of the model)

7. During the lighting design master studies part of our team gathered to design a little Gadget for the LAMP Lighting
awards 2015. Something small, wearable, and that a kind of light art installation could me made by the hole.
Is there a better way to say good by to an amazing
Master’s studies than with a Light Art workshop?
On this case we team up, and each team had a
dark public scene, 20 powerful lanterns (and 20
people holding each one) different light filters and
20 seconds to make a picture.
Off
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 1+2=3

8. In Lluèrnia 2016 we wanted to bring the stars down to the Earth making the people believe that the sky is not that
far. Something simple, elegant and poetic.
Working at Santa & Cole has been teaching me a lot about the lighting world from the products design. During
the past year I’ve been working (I still am) on this company projects’ department developing mostly outdoor
projects, and some interior design proposals, always speaking directly to the client. I’ve also been helping the sales
department, assessing them in the light effects that our products can achieve and guiding them through projects or
proposals, and also becoming part of the team in some fairs and presentations. Moreover I took part on briefings
of new products under development.
During my lighting designs studies I’ve learned a lot and working here has given me a bit of the “real life”
approach, leaving me hungry for more. This past year has made me conscious of the light fixtures in the public
realm during the day and discovering that my training, abilities and experience in architecture was always focused
on the daylight never considering what happens when the sun goes off. This realization makes me pay attention to
the world, to whats installed and designed, to the details, and more important to the space by itself, and how is it
lived and perceived.
I understand that light can transform everything, without light some things wouldn’t even exist because we
wouldn’t acknowledge their existence, so I want to get to know this powerful material, I’d love to work with it, learn
from it and grow as a professional and as a person with it. I’m very committed, responsible and a hard worker. I’m
always open to opportunities and new challenges.
I wish this document helps you to get to know me a little I tried to summarize my skills and my experience about
light. Apart from the projects you’ve seen in this pictures I’ve worked on the design, development and constructions
of several houses and some urban planning as a freelance architect or collaborating with other professionals.
If you’re interested in contact me you can find me at +34 610 029 610 (cell phone) or email me at africa.sabe@
gmail.com
Thanks for taking the time to getting to this line

9. àfrica sabé dausà
- June 9th, 2016 -