Get to know Klaasen Lighting Design - Interviewing Anggi Ardianti

Tell me a little about yourself and how long you’ve worked at KLD?

Hello, I’m Anggi. I’m 29 years old, a wife and a mother to one daughter. I graduated from Architecture Engineering, Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in 2015. I met KLD team firstly at my internship during college, around January-February 2014 in KLD Jakarta. Because of the short time given by campus authority for intern activity, KLD Jakarta extended my work remotely until June 2014. Seven years later, destiny brought me back to Klaasen. August 2021, I joined KLD Singapore, hopefully until I retire.

Where did you grow up and what was the best thing about growing up there? 

I grew up in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It’s called Scholar’s City and well-known as the cheapest city to live in. Since I lived there until my teenage era, their low-cost lifestyle is the best thing that I could get. In addition, communities in Yogyakarta are extremely diverse. You can find any creative community that you can join or exhibitions that you can watch or interesting heritage buildings that you can visit—for free!

 What drew you to working in the lighting design industry?

At Q3 year 2013, me and my college friends were busy researching about where we should do the intern activity. Most of them chose the starchitect consultant studio, but I hesitated. There should be anything more than the architecture design process, that I could learn out there somewhere. It’s not that I didn’t appreciate the architecture design process, but we did it in whole years since 2011. Then I found out about lighting design and it attracted me. One thought that popped out at that time, “No matter how interestingly an architecture product, it would fail without proper lighting design.”

When you started what did you hope to achieve? Have you achieved it?

I hope that my design will help the surroundings and satisfy everybody who uses it. I think that’s still a long road to achieving. But I will learn from the experts and try the best that I can.

What one topic you are passionate about in lighting design? Why?

One topic that I am passionate about in lighting design is solving the problem. Where we should enlighten the building or façade. Where we should put the controls. How the user will operate this room. How we can maximise their design. Something like that. Something that will solve the project’s problems.

If you could change one thing about the lighting design industry, what would it be?

The energy? Honestly, I don’t know much about how lighting design nowadays will affect sustainability, but I guess that’s an interesting topic for me. I would love to learn about the energy and sustainability aspect in lighting. Not to change it yet because I still don’t have enough knowledge for that.

What is something interesting you have learned in your career?

Something interesting for me are the people themselves. From years of my career in Architecture Design, Lighting Design, until Property Development last time, made me realise that we’re in the industry that builds an environment, so what kind of environment do we want to achieve? It’s not about grande designs or international awards, it’s a good thing; but again, it’s the living creatures that live there or use it. We should give them the best experiences and great environment to support their activities, inside and outside.

What is your favourite part of your job?

My favourite part, so far, working with the big names hahaha. I never imagined I would work with international brands that I could only read about on their websites, back in my college year. At this moment, I guess I’m on the right track to achieving my dream.

How has your appreciation of lighting design changed over the course of your career?

I still have my thoughts as I mentioned in the questions what drew you to work in lighting design. Although it’s still a long road for me. Definitely, there’s so much I have to learn and catch up on.

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