2026

NEWSLETTER

NIGHT EDITOR
For essays that don’t quite fit into my design work or my research approach, there is Night Editor, a newsletter on the night, but with an optimistic tone about preserving the night, the beauty of cities after dark and the slow, ongoing question of what we owe the places we illuminate by night.

For the past few years, my work has often involved difficult conversations about preserving the night. Night Editor grew out of that frustration: I wanted a place to write and read about the night, in language that isn’t only scientific, and isn’t only personal, but tries to hold both spaces at once.

The newsletter publishes occasional essays, book and article reviews, and features spotlighting people and organisations working to protect the night. All circling the same questions: how do our cities and their users behave once the sun sets, and what does the shift into the bright, artificially lit night cost nature? We rarely think to ask, and what would it mean to design with darkness in mind, not just against it?

You can read it and subscribe here:

LiTG PANEL DISCUSSION ON

LIGHT, NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT

An insightful March 8th, where I had the opportunity to be part of a panel discussion on Lighting, Nature, and Environment in Frankfurt for the Light+Building trade fair.

Moderated by Lighting Designer Paula Longato, I was greatful to be also with Dr. Annette Knop-Benesch, and Dipl.-Ing. Rudi Seibt. We explored how to address assumptions and challenging opinions around safety and artificial light at night to the general public and clients, how to bridge the existing gaps between practice and research and the social skills needed to establish collaborations outside the lighting design arena to reconcile preserving the night with people and nature.

The audience brought thoughtful questions on how to effectively communicate to clients on ecology, and the means to measure light pollution. The curiosity and interest of the audience was the sweet spot of the conversation. The second best part ended up being the humble reminder that we were there, starting the conversation on environmental awareness on the first day of L&B.

For me, it was humbling to see the interest from those who envision a future with less light pollution.

Thanks to LiTG, Deutsche Gesellschaft für LichtTechnik und LichtGestaltung e. V. for being part of such an interesting conversation.

Thanks to Chinatsu Kajiya for the photo.

2025

AWARD

LiTG Young Talent Award in Light, Technology and Design
LiTG Nachwuchspreis: Licht, Technik und Gestaltung, Kategorie 2: Dissertationen

On Nov 21, 2025, at the DIN, Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V., in Berlin, I presented the research, to which I dedicated 6 years, maybe more, to the members and committee of the LiTG.

I had the opportunity to share the hardship and deep commitment to transdisciplinary collaboration, a framework to which I stand to bridge the intersection at which lighting design meets ecology. This award is a win for the team of light pollution researchers and lighting designers involved in the project that walked along with me to understand, communicate, and collaborate to translate and transfer ecological awareness. Through this project, we addressed:

• Transdisciplinary collaborations and communication frameworks to translate and transfer ecological knowledge into the lighting practice
• Addressed the challenges of measuring light pollution in the river Spree in Berlin
• Developed recommendations and environmentally friendly lighting solutions when light is needed close to waterbodies.

So thrilled to witness that my dissertation on “The Environmental Impact of Artificial Lighting in Urban Settings: Gaps, Challenges and Sustainable Lighting Design” has been awarded the LiTG Nachwuchspreis Licht, Technik, und Gestaltung (LiTG Young Talent Award in Light, Technology and Design), in Category II: Dissertations, by the LiTG, Deutsche Gesellschaft für LichtTechnik und LichtGestaltung e. V.

Through this project, we shared the need for a lighting practice that integrates biodiversity thresholds and recognises light as a potential pollutant. We urgently need respectful, careful approaches to designing with light. Read more about it in the links below.

LiTG

Forschung Verbund Berlin e.V. Press Release, IGB

Freie Universität Berlin

Hochschule Wismar