Leni has offered pioneering viewpoints to lighting designers and affiliates for more than two decades. She encourages the international community to broaden its perspectives and deepen its own insights with the goal of sharing a seat at the decision-making table. Humanizing the Night is her latest speech, crafted to open the minds of lighting and civic professionals to consider urban spaces as critical “luminous rooms” for city dwellers after dark. She makes the case for designers to join the emerging, twin disciplines of urban lighting and nighttime design.
Personal and professional, in this poetic, provocative, and practical keynote, urban lighting expert Leni Schwendinger shares how creative illumination, plus key decision-making, transforms cities after sunset into safer, vibrant, and more inclusive places: placemaking after dark.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Learn about the trend to consider nighttime as a “place”. Participants will be introduced to the critical need to design safer, more welcoming nighttime public spaces by addressing exterior lighting as an infrastructural system.
- Take home an expanded vocabulary to address clients in the civic ecosystem of planners, transportation agencies, downtown organizations, business districts, public health leaders, developers, arts organizations, and residents.
- Learn community participation approaches in lighting decisions applicable to creative lighting masterplans.
- Advanced understanding: Examples of policies and pilots that have transformed cities worldwide to strengthen the urban lighting community’s nighttime design expertise
