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Hear from Leni Schwendinger, Creative Director at NightseeingTM to discover how light creates joy, safety and legibility after dark. Discover why planners need to place night time design at the centre of their night time economy strategy.  Leni led Cities Leadership Institute's 'Get the Night Right' Masterclasses in Sydney and the Hunter Region on the Night Time Economy.

NIght Shift | Night Place was created for the 2022 International Night Studies Network conference originating from Lisbon. Here, the question of after-dark design for night shift workers is posed. The 3rd International Conference on Night Studies echoes frontier research, artistic works and practices in urban night studies. Leni appears on the night-worker panel. Her talk “Night Shift | Night Place” connects Shades of Night and nightshifters with proven community engagement methodologies. Her conclusion: Night-shifters, indeed all people, deserve creative design for safety and inspiration. It is time to co-design the darkened hours during city revitalization projects. The session was curated by JC Macquarie, "The Vulnerable-Essential Paradox: Imagining Futures of Nightwork and Nightshift Cities."

On January 20, 2022, Artist and Lighting designer, Leni Schwendinger presented to the London Mayor's Office 24-hour Team. With a humor and verve, Leni spoke of utilizing festoon lighting in innovative ways to improve night streetscapes -- expecially during the Covid 19 pandemic.

Signify Design and Lighting Academy hosted the 2nd edition of the Burlington Sessions, a CoCreate aimed at bringing together lighting artists & designers that inspire us, push the limits and create a new language of lighting. This is a small group, by invitation only, of international recognized disruptors leading the way into the future of lighting. These sessions are very hands-on, Signify shared some of the solutions we are developing in a very early stage, our guests were able to experiment and explore, and share their ideas on what/ how would these concepts work for them and their customers. Leni Schwendinger is an award-winning authority on city lighting & creator of illuminated environments. This work is shared through her public speaking & envisioning engagements, including NightSeeing™. She directs International Nighttime Design Initiative, establishing an interdisciplinary profession. Leni is a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and a Design Trust for Public Space Fellow (NYC) Contact us: Find more about Signify Lighting Academy: https://www.signify.com/global/lighting-academy Follow us on Social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SignifyUni LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/signify-lighting-university/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SignifyLightingAcademy/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PhilipsLighting/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=19 #Signify #LightingAcademy #BurS2 #BurlingtonSessions #Lighting #SignifyDesign #LightingDesign #LightingArtists #PioneersofLight

Light for Life - July 27, 2020 A recording of Leni Schwendinger's unique presentation on behalf of Lighting Urban Communities International (LUCI) and hosted by IES (Illuminating Engineering Society). Light for Life was a global two-day online conference.

Join Leni, Architectural Digest and Delta Airlines in a discussion of cities after work hours. Visit the Light Projects studio in the Fashion Center district, Manhattan. Travel through Times Square and New York City, Broadway Pier in San Diego, Liberty Science Center in New Jersey and Coney Island in Brooklyn. "Light is a tool to transform cities at night. The work we do with light is meant to transform neighborhoods, districts, infrastructure and spaces. To me night is a beautiful canvas..." http://cs.condenastdigital.com/cs/promo/delta/travelbetter/ for an additional image gallery.

"Nighttime is an existing condition, and that condition engenders different behaviors, different situations, different perceptions at night" Leni Schwendinger discusses the role of lighting design to create a 24-hour city. Schwendinger aims to utilize lighting design to allow the nighttime to be a place of activity in the urban, where people in public feel safe and included. Leni's signature NightSeeing™ program is an eye-opening concept to understand the way lighting impacts our after-hours urban experience. By designing lighting to fit the needs of different neighborhoods rather than trying to curate a specific type of experience on top of an existing neighborhood, Schwendinger sees potential in the development of nightlife in urban areas that do not conflict with local communities. Leni Schwendinger is the founder of NightSeeing™, the International Nighttime Design Initiative, and has formerly worked at Arup, taught at Portland State University, and has been a fellow at the Design Trust for Public Space. Schwendinger’s past projects have included installations at Kingston Bridge, Glasgow, the Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York, and the Seattle Center’s McCaw Hall. She brought her first NightSeeing™ walk to Prague during reSITE's In/visible City conference. -- reSITE is an international platform connecting people and ideas to improve the urban environment. We work at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, politics, culture, and economics. We feature thought leaders whose work pushes the boundaries on how we build, design, regenerate and create life in cities, and frame them through many lenses, convening them in one place. We act as a catalyst for social action and innovative leadership. We encourage an exchange of ideas about making cities more livable, competitive, and resilient. We protect and promote public space, architecture, and sustainable development in cities. All to make our cities more livable, competitive, resilient, inclusive, mobile, and designed with humans in mind. Listen to our podcast Design and the City on the link below or wherever you get your podcasts. ▫️www.reSITE.org/podcast Learn More + Connect with Us! www.reSITE.org ▫️https://www.facebook.com/reSITEfestival/ ▫️https://www.instagram.com/resite_/ ▫️https://twitter.com/reSITE_ ▫️https://www.linkedin.com/company/resite-festival/

In our second installment of As You Light It we ventured to Manhattan to interview "lighting urbanist" Leni Schwendinger. From the terminals of Port Authority to the brights lights of Time Square and the muted majesty of Bryant Park at night, Schwendinger takes us on an odyssey that explores the unique effects of lighting in the city that doesn't sleep!