Golsana Heshmati is an architect, lighting designer, and educator who founded The SEED (Studio of Embodied Experience Design), a women-owned lighting design studio based in New York City. With a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and a Master’s in Architectural Lighting from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, she brings a multidisciplinary approach to her work. 

Before establishing The SEED, Heshmati held positions at firms such as HLB Lighting Design, Callison Architects, and AGF in San Francisco, as well as working with design studios in Barcelona. 

She is also a professor at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and the New York School of Interior Design. 

Recognized as one of the “40 Under 40” top lighting design talents in 2017, she continues to contribute to the field through her involvement with the Illuminating Engineering Society’s education committee and as a jury member for the International Association of Lighting Designers’ awards program. 

Please enjoy, get inspired and learn, listening to the conversation I had with Golsana Heshmati, Founder The SEED.

The Light Lounge was founded as an art project by Thomas Mnich in 2018, me interviewing and talking with the most brilliant and creative lighting designers in the world. To learn from them and to get inspired by the stories they share. Please let me know if you have any questions and feel free to contact me via ⁠LinkedIn⁠ or ⁠Instagram⁠.