NightSeeing

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...

City Light Guide – NYC – Read Cities After Dark + Movie: Cleveland’s Slice of Nigh

City Light Guide, a free mobile app by Philips has just been released. Link to Android City Light Guide & Apple City Light Guide apps...

International NightSeeing, Planning Continues: Megacities

Lighting is an essential element of our 24/7 world The world is urbanizing at an unprecedented pace. Once dominant, rural and...

Islington After Dark (A London LightWalk)

Photo by Leni The NightSeeing program’s intention is to open people’s eyes to an existing nighttime milieu, as well as providing an...

Fête des Lumières; a NightSeeing™ LightWalk in Lyon, Part 2

Visual memories of December 2010 are clothed in a vapor of magenta pink. During the famous ‘Fête des Lumières‘ in December 2010, Philips...

LightWalk Times Square with Author Dietrich Neumann and his Architectural History Class

I was thrilled to receive a message from Dietrich Neumann, whose “Architecture of the Night” has inspired so many. He indicated that he...

As You Light It: Dwell Magazine Video and Leni Schwendinger

Dwell Magazine’s series, As You Light It <link here>, focuses on my idea of the City as home and the NightSeeing™ program. The video...

NightSeeing™ in Washington D.C. (with Landscape Architects)

In the evening Washington D.C. NW is a monochromatic blend of light. People are the action. The shifting interplay of nighttime dark and...

LightMapping NYC – Join the exploration of light and dark November 11-18

LightMapping NYC is intended to provide the New York City lighting design community with a forum to consider the current, past and future...

Public Lighting Walk With Leni… Video Shoot Preview

The urban nighttime environment is a dark canvas that humans have created – our previously daytime oriented “clocks” have been extended...