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Honoring a Beloved LSC Artwork: Leni Schwendinger’s A Spatial Portrait
For a generation, an innovative public art piece welcomed guests to Liberty Science Center. Here we preserve the legacy of the monumental...
Luminous Color Implementation
Iridescent Waves Beautiful lighting promotes a feeling of safety, care, and identity. The Queens Parking Garage and Community Space east...
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...
 NYCxDESIGN & LightFair Present
Future Directions for Urban Space at Night, a panel conversation exploring ways that urban lighting activates public space after dark....
Facets of Light
City planners, developers and design professionals regard evening and nighttime hours as critical for master planning, cultural diversity...
Urban Nighttime Design: Bridging the Gap Between Community and Technology
Nighttime experts and aficionados envision that public street lighting and private lighting will create a connective tissue that adapts...
6th Street Viaduct: is it a bridge or a place?
Proposed archway illumination envisaged real time traffic data displayed through tints and nature’s rhythms Significantly, LSLP was...
Join Uptown Flash -- a braided light extravaganza
Leni Schwendinger's art installation in Harlem - materials: D.I.Y. string lights and community engagement
Pilots by Night - have you tested? -
Light is a magical lever for community engagement Pilots, or trial demonstrations, are key to successful projects. Elizabeth Barrett...
Lighting for Pedestrians
On October 7, Leni presented her take on pedestrian lighting with walkability advocates from Poland. This is an opportunity to gain...
Creative Placemaking After Dark
International Nighttime Design Initiative Guidance for towns and cities converting to LED street lights, buying back lights from...
Inhabiting The Night – Preparing Cities For Extreme Heat
This summer, even more than last, people around the world suffered the consequences of a warming world. From an exceptionally early start...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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