The Spark Session

Our award-winning lighting experts help you refine your lighting plan in a bundled workshop—offering expert advice and fresh, sustainable ideas, infused with smart solutions to avoid unnecessary costs and delays, and bring your project to life with confidence.

The Spark Session is a compact lighting consultancy designed to support you at the pivotal early planning stages of your project—offering expert guidance without the need to commit to full-scale lighting planning.

Whether you're working on a boutique workspace, a flagship store, or a hospitality concept, this session delivers clarity, creative direction, and fresh impulses to elevate your lighting strategy from the start.

The Spark Session

What is it?

The Spark Session is a compact lighting consultancy designed to support you at the pivotal early planning stages of your project—offering expert guidance without the need to commit to full-scale lighting planning.

Whether you're working on a boutique workspace, a flagship store, or a hospitality concept, this session delivers clarity, creative direction, and fresh impulses to elevate your lighting strategy from the start.

Why The Spark Session

Lighting often gets left behind—yet it has a massive impact on a project’s perception, atmosphere, and budget.
The Spark Session helps you make strategic planning decisions at an early stage—so lighting becomes an integral part of your architectural concept, not an afterthought.

Is this for you?

  • You have a design vision—but need expert guidance on light effects, layering, and lighting integration

  • You want independent, product-neutral advice—not sales pitches

  • You’re stuck between budget constraints and design ambitions, unsure what’s truly worth the investment

  • You’re looking for support that accelerates your process, avoiding delays or costly rework

  • You’re ready to make smart, early-stage decisions that shape the project

  • You’re looking for technical and aesthetic guidance that ensures your design not only works—but shines.

  • You’re seeking a strategic partner—someone who looks beyond the fixture to enhance the entire spatial experience

Your take-aways:

  • Clarity on what’s needed—technically and atmospherically

  • Design impulses to elevate your lighting concept and support decision-making

  • Tailored guidance on lighting strategies, ceiling integration, material impact, and night-time image

  • Budget-awareness—how to strike the right balance between cost-effective and impactful lighting

  • Expert advice—independent, product-neutral, and architecture-lead


Lighting is never isolated, as everything we see is reflected light. It shapes how people experience a space.
The earlier you plan it, the more powerful your design becomes.

Independent

We’re not tied to any manufacturer or product line—our advice is unbiased and entirely project-driven. Whether you're working with existing fixtures, specific partners, or aiming for re-use and relamping, we help you elevate your vision.

Creative

We don’t just design with light—we rethink how it’s used. From subtle tricks to bold shifts, our “light hacks” explore how light interacts with surfaces, materials, and space to reshape perception. It's about revealing potential.

Responsible

We follow a cradle-to-cradle mindset—prioritising reuse, smart upgrades, and minimal waste. Whether you're relamping or refining, we help you build lighting strategies that are future-ready and resource-conscious.

Our expertise

With over a decade of experience, Studio De Schutter stands for independent thinking, technical expertise, and a strong design sensibility. Founded by Sabine De Schutter, the studio is known for immersive, sustainable lighting concepts that shape how spaces are experienced.

Our multidisciplinary team brings backgrounds in architectural lighting design (M.A.), product design, architecture, and interior architecture—combining precision with spatial awareness, honed through international projects and award-winning work.

Whether you need a second opinion, expert advice, or a complete lighting strategy, we offer clarity, creativity, and circular thinking.

Awards

2023 - POLIS Awards in the category “Ökologische Wirklichkeit” for Impact Hub - 3rd place
2020 - Best Emerging Practice, german lighting design awards
2020 - Best Light Art Installation “Your Point of View”, german lighting design awards
2017 - Winner: Heritage Lighting “MELO”, LIT Awards
2017 - Darc Awards, “MELO”, 3rd place
2016 - 40 under 40, Emerging lighting design talent, Lighting Design Awards

Client experiences

Featured
LXSY Architekten – Kim Leroux

“Working together with Studio De Schutter on designing offices and co-working spaces has really enabled us to create a more holistic design that is both innovative and has a strong focus on human centered design.Where the standard lighting solutions only solve some of the users needs, Studio De Schutter simply comes up with fabulous design hacks which are tailored exactly to the users needs.
We enjoy working with Sabine and her team, because its almost like a rapid prototyping design session where we are coming up with new and fun ideas around light and design.”

Architerior – Isabella Dräger

“Licht ist eine komplexe Aufgabe und eine weitere Ebene in der Raumgestaltung, die wir als Innenarchitekten im größeren Umfang nicht leisten können. Das ist uns bei der Entwicklung einer großen Privatvilla (Neubau) schnell klar geworden. Für uns war wichtig, dass neben der guten Ausleuchtung der Räume, das Lichtkonzept auch helfen soll, die Räume zu strukturieren, bestimmte Bereiche zu inszenieren und Atmosphäre zu schaffen.
Dank Sabine und ihrem Team sind wir hier in guten Händen.”

Private client, apartment in Berlin

“The decision to solve our lighting needs through Studio de Schutter was absolutely the right one. Sabine and her team managed the whole process from start to finish, saving me from costly mistakes I would have inadvertently made, and all within budget. Sabine’s was excellently reliable, and regular and informative in her communication. I can strongly recommend their services.”

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Tier 1

$100

Online Course Only

Popular

Tier 2

$200

Online Course +
Virtual Support

Tier 3

$300

Online Course +
Workshop

Our Light Booster-Packages

Small

For small projects:

  • unter 50m2

  • or up to 1 area

What’s included:
- prep + post work

  • 60min call

  • doc with next steps

  • sketch layout

  • templates: tips on luminaire selection

  • lighting sustainability guideline

  • tips for lighting


  • 490€     (excl. VAT)

Medium

For midrange projects:

  • from 50 and 1000m2

  • or up to 5 zones

890€ (excl. VAT)

We’re currently onboarding a select number of trial clients
—at a reduced rate (-30%). Limited availability!

Join the waiting list and get access to our toolkit + future offers.

What’s included?

  • a deep-dive call (60 min)

  • Marked-up documents with recommendations

  • Follow-up call (20–30 min) to align or fine-tune

  • Bonus: Check-lists and templates to avoid common lighting mistakes

  • Bonus: Extra sustainability tips and ideas to boost atmosphere

  • Bonus: -20% for returning clients

Large

For larger projects:

  • ranging from 1000m2.

  • or more than 5 zones

1190€ (excl. VAT)

Your take-aways:

  • Expert feedback that aligns with your architectural intent

  • Guidance on fixture typologies, light quality and integration and atmosphere

  • Clear action plan and next steps

  • A lighting concept you can take to any partner you trust

  • Advice that fits in any project constellation - even if certain parties are already fixed or there is existing lighting

Note: this is a consultation and does not replace a full-scale planning.

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How it works

  1. Book — Send us your questions so we can prepare.

  2. 1:1 Consultation Call — A focused video session to discuss improvements and answer questions with one of our consultants. We’ll mark the documents in the meeting.

  3. Checklist & Takeaways

    — A clear action plan on what to do next

    — A list with technical, creative, and sustainable suggestions

    — A checklist on how to avoid common lighting mistakes

    — A summary of the 1:1 call

  4. Follow-up Call: to clear any left-over uncertainty

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The Lighting Booster

Still unsure? Let’s schedule a free 15-minute intro call.

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