The Essential, Invisible Night: Illuminating Cities for Essential Workers
The architectural and urban design professions are day-biased, even as night is a full 50% of the world’s time. My years of work as an...
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Leni Schwendinger
May 22, 20231 min read
NYCxDESIGN & LightFair Present
Future Directions for Urban Space at Night, a panel conversation exploring ways that urban lighting activates public space after dark....
Leni Schwendinger
Aug 26, 20181 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
Dec 20, 20172 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 7, 20171 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
Apr 11, 20173 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 7, 20171 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
Mar 30, 20161 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 16, 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
Jul 23, 20151 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
Apr 19, 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
Mar 22, 20152 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...
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