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Leni Schwendinger
- Nov 15
- 1 min
Lighting for Pedestrians
On October 7, Leni presented her take on pedestrian lighting with walkability advocates from Poland. This is an opportunity to gain...
Leni Schwendinger
- Oct 18
- 1 min
Creative Placemaking After Dark
International Nighttime Design Initiative Guidance for towns and cities converting to LED street lights, buying back lights from...
Leni Schwendinger
- Oct 13
- 5 min
Inhabiting The Night – Preparing Cities For Extreme Heat
This summer, even more than last, people around the world suffered the consequences of a warming world. From an exceptionally early start...
Leni Schwendinger
- Jul 21
- 3 min
IES/LD+A Magazine "Imagine This"
The $1.2 trillion U.S. infrastructure bill promises to help deliver large-scale, well-funded projects for years to come. Five lighting...
Leni Schwendinger
- Jun 29
- 1 min
A Lantern, A Lighting Strategy: Illuminate Your Nighttime Masterplan
Lanterns are beloved by many cultures. They float on water and air, they are hand-made or manufactured of silk or paper. Some are...
Leni Schwendinger
- Apr 19
- 1 min
Envision Poetic Nights
In the Rue Morgue story, Mr. Poe further elucidates walking in the after-dark city. The narrator points out that “the infinity of mental...
Leni Schwendinger
- Mar 7
- 1 min
Colors of Night, Drawings of Light
I believe that the most effective urban lighting hybridizes the poetry of night with the technology of light. Let us be your guide...
Leni Schwendinger
- Jan 18
- 1 min
A Thought About Light at a Dark Time
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Goethe reminds us that, inevitably, light and shadow work together. Is his pronouncement emotional and...
Leni Schwendinger
- Apr 16, 2020
- 2 min
Urban Lighting Design: Contemporary Vision for Nocturnal Environments
Visit the re-energized Leni Schwendinger Light Projects website Feast your eyes, intellect and imagination on images and text about the...
Leni Schwendinger
- Aug 26, 2018
- 1 min
Best of Nighttime Design: Elaborated by Voice, Writing and Video
Celebrating one year of formation, since August 2017, key members of the Smart Everyday Nighttime Design research team have discussed and...
Leni Schwendinger
- Dec 20, 2017
- 2 min
City Lights, Nighttime Design: the future of night, a spirited video, an international collaboration
A research-based, prototype pilot, blossoms with citizen participation. Skim to last image for 6-minute video Urban design often neglects...
Leni Schwendinger
- Dec 7, 2017
- 1 min
Nighttime Design: Long Listen, Short Listen
The night has the power to invoke a myriad of emotions — from fear to romance, melancholy to excitement. Whatever your feelings, the fact...
Leni Schwendinger
- Apr 11, 2017
- 3 min
Inventing Nighttime Design
Nighttime design and its concomitant Shades of Night analysis were born out of the NightSeeing™ Program During the dark hours, a nexus of...
Leni Schwendinger
- Apr 7, 2017
- 1 min
El-space recognition from Fast Company
Link here for Design Trust for Public Space updates on Under the Elevated, Phase 2
Leni Schwendinger
- Mar 30, 2016
- 1 min
Envisioning the future of public space illumination – Looking back at looking forward, part on
In 2001, for their 20th anniversary issue Metropolis magazine’s back page featured several architects’ and designers’ quick visions for...
Leni Schwendinger
- Mar 16, 2016
- 1 min
El-Space: first, the after-dark site study
It was cold, it was dark…normal site study conditions. Arup staff and I braved the night with cameras, illuminance meters, laser...
Leni Schwendinger
- Jul 23, 2015
- 1 min
Leni’s eclectic nighttime design bibliography, part 2
Nightwalking, A Nocturnal History of London, by Matthew Beaumont. The book arrived bedside and surely it “…shines a light on the shadowy...
Leni Schwendinger
- Apr 19, 2015
- 1 min
Leni’s eclectic nighttime design bibliography
Do you read? Here, this list is for you: publications on urban design, historical light, stories of sleep, nocturnal narratives, the...
Leni Schwendinger
- Mar 22, 2015
- 2 min
Nighttime Design Has its Day
Here, the Arup description: “In the past, the attitude of ‘the more light the better’ has led to a general abundance of light, especially...