An important update, just before closing this issue, which concerns the world of AIDI, the historical association and the editor of LUCE, is the appointment of Gian Paolo Roscio, manager of Network Services at IREN Energia SpA, as AIDI President for the three-year period from 2018 to 2020. Elected at the shareholders’ meeting which was held some days ago in Milan, he succeeds former AIDI President architect Margherita Suss. Gian Paolo Roscio, 57 years old, from Turin, married, with two children, is the manager of Gruppo Iren since 1982, where he has held various positions in the management of the electric energy distribution network of Turin. Member of the Productivity and Quality Commission of Federelettrica. Since 2003 he has been managing services for the Town Council of Turin and other Public Administrations. He was the CEO of the Company Sasternet and member of the Board of Directors of AEM Net and AEM Torino Distribuzione. He is a member of the AIDI Governing Council since 2003 and of the AIDI Executive Board since 2009. The new AIDI Council includes some very important representatives of the entrepreneurial sector, utilities, associations and professions. The confirmed Council members are: Dante Cariboni( Cariboni Group), Roberto Barbieri( Osram), Clotilde Binfa( Performance In Lighting), Aldo Bigatti( Gewiss), Raffaele Bonardi( Citelum) and Paolo Di Lecce( Reverberi Enetec). The newly appointed Council members are: Massimiliano Guzzini( iGuzzini Illuminazione and President of ASSIL), Luca Pellizzari( A2A Illuminazione Pubblica), Michele Bassi( Neri), Ubaldo Schiavi( Cogei) and Alessandro Visentin( City Green Light). The new Council members include distinguished professors Laura Bellia( Università Federico II di Napoli) and Anna Pellegrino( Politecnico di Torino). From the Business Associations, Andrea Solzi( ASSIL) is reconfirmed. Confirmed lighting designers are: Gianni Drisaldi, Lorella Primavera and Margherita Suss( Studio GMS). Alessandra Reggiani, President of the AIDI Lazio and Molise section, is a newly appointed Council member. In the professional area, Council members Alberto Scalchi and Alessia Usuelli have been reconfirmed. The new President, Gian Paolo Roscio, contacted by LUCE at the meeting, stated,“ This is an important task which I will carry out with great enthusiasm, accompanied by the vision of one who believes in an Association that increasingly draws strength from its cultural identity and that provides services, contents and opportunities for the entire lighting sector, an ideal place where a proficient exchange of views can take place among the different categories in the complex and heterogeneous lighting system: that ranges from the Companies, to the utilities, o ESCOs, and to professionals, from the universities to the professors.” From this announcement we can envisage future internal and external operations to promote the cultural activity of the Association, increasing relations among associate members, providing greater opportunities to new production and association categories, and greater interdisciplinary development to enhance the technical and scientific debate on innovative topics such as human centric lighting, Smart City and the IoT. A greater amount of information and experience exchanged with research centres, national and international organisms, and a more intense collaboration with universities and professors – AIDI is proud to have, among its members, professors that are renowned on a national and international scale. Attention and a renewed dialogue with the world of lighting designers, who have a relevant role in the sector and with Made in Italy products, training and the young generation. Actions and aims that we think will stem from constant comparing and sharing activities in this Association, which is proud of its history and is aware of its role and activities around the world in the Italian Lighting System, on an international but mainly on a European scale, and on a national economic, social and cultural level. The Editorial staff and the Director of LUCE wish the new AIDI President, Gian Paolo Roscio, every success in his work. We wish Margherita Suss, the Association’ s President for the past three-year period, goodbye and we would like to thank her for the work carried out also as the editor of LUCE, the magazine founded by AIDI, only three years after AIDI was established in Milan in 1959. The magazines Domus and Casabella( 1928) were born three decades before, Interni in 1954 and Abitare in 1961, followed by LUCE in 1962, Lotus in 1965 and Ottagono the following year: all magazines that have all left a sign in the cultural life of Italy, and not only Italy.