Elevate your event with one of
the world’s leading voices in city nighttime design.
Leni Schwendinger is an internationally recognized speaker, strategist and advocate for holistic urban nighttime design. After-dark civic issues are increasingly more urgent, especially as cities grow hotter. Light up your audience with Leni’s pioneering methods and case studies for results.
Leni’s unique value and approach:
a magical experience of light
Through compelling keynotes, trainings, and multimedia storytelling, Leni Schwendinger delivers transformative logic that sparks action among municipalities, philanthropists, and business leaders worldwide.
She brings a bold, visionary approach to the global conversation on cities after dark. From stage lighting designer and projection artist to local leader, Leni has navigated the full spectrum of urban illumination and community engagement. Her lived experience and creative practice have shaped new vocabularies that illuminate both the physical and social fabric of cities.
Thought provoking approaches ⦿ Globally tested methods ⦿ Passionately delivered ⦿ Critically relevant ⦿
Your Audience is ready to Shape the Future of
their City. Leni’s Keynotes Equip them to:
Ignite nighttime and lighting challenges into opportunities for innovation, activation, and equity
Unlock health, safety, and economic benefits with nighttime design
Collaborate across planning, design, and policy sectors
Anchor decisions in real-world case studies
Strengthen community engagement with inclusive strategies
Define and elevate their city’s nighttime identity
Champion visionary, long-term urban change
Safeguard and energize public spaces with placemaking
Keynotes
Humanizing the Night:
A civic vision for safer, more vibrant cities
What happens in a city after dark is more than an issue of safety it’s a test of its culture, inclusivity, and vitality. Drawing on her global expertise in urban lighting, Leni Schwendinger invites civic leaders to imagine a future where every evening activates public life. This session challenges outdated assumptions, reframes risks as opportunities, and sparks a vision of cities that are safer, more welcoming, and brilliantly alive after dark. She provides a nighttime design toolbox to bring the vision forward.
Why book Leni?
Step into the world of nighttime design with its pathbreaking pioneer.
Internationally recognized urban lighting designer Leni Schwendinger has spent decades transforming the way we experience and shape cities after dark. From global stages to her unique, local, guided NightSeeing™ walks, her work sparks creative approaches and practical action.
Join Leni on a NightSeeing™ Walk through the West Village neighborhood in Manhattan
Fun, moving, exciting! Is how I would describe Leni's talk and light walk.
– Sandra, Nightseeing Los Angeles Attendee