Nighttime design

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...

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...

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...

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...

El-space recognition from Fast Company

Link here for Design Trust for Public Space updates on Under the Elevated, Phase 2

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...

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’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’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...

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...