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2022
Responsible Outdoor Lighting at Night (ROLAN 2022): London, UK and online. Seahorses and Kestrels, Quiet Walks and Basketball: Pier 26, a Case Study.
Rural Studio: Newbern, AL. Under Light: Thoughts on Contemporary Lighting and Uneasy Spaces.
University of Auburn School of Architecture: Auburn, AL. Under Light: Thoughts on Contemporary Lighting and Uneasy Spaces.
2021
LUCI Asia: Urban Lighting Workshop: Seoul and Online. Emotionally Durable Design.
2019
Queen Mary University of London School of Geography: Dixon Place, NY, NY; What's Light Got to Do With It?
2018
Light Symposium KTH: Light and Architecture: Stockholm Sweden; What Keeps Me Up at Night?
2017
TX Society of Architects Design Conference: Austin, TX. Other Worlds: Chasing the Light & Other Mysteries.
The Oyster Seminar: Stockholm, Sweden; Human Nature.
The New York City Department of Design and Construction: New York, NY; Why Light?
2016
Concordia University: Montreal, Canada; An Entirely Different Kingdom: Light, Night, and the City.
ASLA: Ecologically Sensitive Lighting Design & Improving Ecology in the City
Universidade Nova de Lisboa: Lisbon, Portugal; The Emotional Value of Light: Identity and Culture.
The New York Botanical Garden: New York, NY; Lighting with Intention.
2015
New School Grad Institute for Design: What’s light got to do with it? Dignity, Mood & Magical Thinking.
The Rural Studio and Auburn University: Newburn and Auburn, AL; What's Light Got to Do With It?
ASLA: Chicago; Combining Forces: Collaborative Efforts btwn Landscape Architects & Lighting Designers.
Int’l Assoc. of Lighting Designers, Enlighten Americas 2015: Baltimore, MD; Planning from the Ground Up.
ASLA TX: Planning from Ground Up: An Alternative Approach to Contemporary Lighting Master Planning.
Parsons | The New School: How Light Connects the Civic, the Poetic & the Psyche in the Urban Landscape.
University of Virginia School of Architecture: Charlottesville, VA; Inside-Out.
Parsons The New School for Design: New York, NY; Aftertaste 2015: Inside Imagination.
2014
Imagining Light: Bogota, Colombia; Planning from Ground Up: An Alternative Approach to Traditional Master Planning.
University of Virginia; Candles & Liquid Light: Reflections on Lost Technologies and the Poetry of Place.
Newel Galleries: NY, NY; Candles & Liquid Light: Reflections on Lost Technologies & the Poetry of Home.
2013
The Van Alen Institute: Columbia University; Let There be Night, Panel Discussion.
PechaKucha Evening: The Garrison, Garrison, NY.
University of Virginia School of Architecture: Charlottesville, VA; More Than Meets the Eye.
McGill University: Montreal, Canada; A Little Tact and Skill.
2012
Museum of the City of New York: New York, NY; The Practice of Everyday Light.
Canadian Center for Architecture, 2nd Int’l Congress, Keynote: Finding Atmosphere/Making Ambiance
NY Decoration & Design Building, Fall Market: NY, NY; How to Change a Light Bulb: a New Poetics of Home.
2011
Goethe-Institut New York at Cabinet Magazine: Brooklyn, NY; Bulbs, Tubes, Beams, and Cobraheads.
Professional Lighting Design Convention: Madrid, Spain; Grounding practice: Speculations on Affect & Env.
Institute for Urban Design: Urban Design Week 2011, New York, NY; How can the city be better illuminated?
lluminating Engineering Society Annual Convention: Mexico City, Mexico; In-Site.
2010
Light Symposium 2010: Stockholm Sweden; Why Light.
The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign: School of Architecture; Under Light.
2009
Orensanz Summer Museum: Conversations at the Island; Matter/Light.
Modern House Day Symposium: Modernism Moves Forward; Under Light.
Asia Society: Mumbai, India; Under Light: the Psychology, Aesthetics and Sustainability of Luminous Space.
AEC World Expo, 361˚ Conference, Mumbai, India; Lighting & Urban Initiatives.
2008
Fête des Lumières of Lyon; The Emotional City.
The Architectural League of New York; New York Designs 2008: Threshold.
The Feltman Lecture Series: Cooper Union; City Night: Altered States.
2007
The Battery Bosque; Recapturing Nature’s Abundance.
The Architectural League of New York; Visual Processes and Architectural Environments.
2006
Canadian Center for Architecture; Urban Fear: What’s Light Got to Do with It.
Museum of the City of New York; Urban Fear.
Columbia University; Waterfront: Edge or Surface?
2004
European Lighting Design Association; Revitalization of Industrial Sites & Lighting Design + Sustainability.
2003
International Facilities Managers Association; Lighting and Conservation.
1999
Parsons the New School for Design; Lighting the Landscape.
1998
National Pedestrian Conference; Lighting for Aesthetics and Safety-Achieving a Walkable Community.
1997
Institute of Traffic Engineers Conference; Transportation and Sustainable Communities.
New Jersey Transportation Conference; TransAction.