Maria Erichsen Madland is a Norwegian lighting designer based in Stockholm. She is educated with a master’s degree in architectural lighting design from KTH School of Architecture and a bachelor in interior architecture.
Her passion for lighting design began in the crossings between design, photography, architecture, art, light and technology. Her focus is on the human interaction with spaces. 
Maria presented, obtaining an honorary mention, her thesis «Light on Darkness» - an investigation of darkness in relation to emotional affect and affordances in 2024, where she investigated how a re-introduction of darkness could be beneficial and impact emotional relations to a space and experience atmospheres.