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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
Jul 21, 20223 min read


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
Jun 29, 20221 min read


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
Apr 19, 20221 min read


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
Mar 7, 20221 min read


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
Jan 18, 20221 min read


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
Apr 16, 20202 min read


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
Aug 26, 20181 min read


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 20, 20172 min read


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
Dec 7, 20171 min read


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 11, 20173 min read


El-space recognition from Fast Company
Link here for Design Trust for Public Space updates on Under the Elevated, Phase 2
Leni Schwendinger
Apr 7, 20171 min read


Envisioning the future of public space illumination – Looking back at looking forward, part one
In 2001, for their 20th anniversary issue Metropolis magazine’s back page featured several architects’ and designers’ quick visions for...
Leni Schwendinger
Mar 30, 20161 min read


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
Mar 16, 20161 min read


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
Jul 23, 20151 min read


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
Apr 19, 20151 min read


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...
Leni Schwendinger
Mar 22, 20152 min read


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...
Leni Schwendinger
Apr 25, 20133 min read


Jane’s Walk and a Naughty Dérive
Municipal Art Society’s “Jane’s Walk” West Village, May 5th 2012,was fun and invigorating. I was the “official” photographer and took my...
Leni Schwendinger
May 27, 20123 min read


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...
Leni Schwendinger
Mar 10, 20123 min read


A Slice of Light: Selections from Fusing Art + Design
A launch to the season of golden slanting sun and naturally tinting leaves, here is a seasonal selection of commentaries voted the best...
Leni Schwendinger
Oct 5, 20111 min read
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