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Lighting Matters®

Avraham Mor & Lisa Reed

The Triangle of Responsibility: Rebecca Keehner on Who Really Owns Lighting Design

July 09, 2026 5:00am 33 min

8% of award-winning projects had a lighting designer. Only 2% got credit. Why is this profession still invisible?   Recorded live at Illuminate@NeoCon 2026 in Chicago, this episode features Rebecca Keehner, Senior Interi...

Episode 35: Zero Out of a Hundred: Jen Park on Why Lighting Never Gets Credit

June 02, 2026 5:00am 55 min

Of 100 award-winning architecture projects, how many listed a lighting designer in the credits? The answer should embarrass the entire industry.Jen Park, principal at Chicago's Park Fowler, joins hosts Avi Mor of Morligh...

Episode 34: The Unregulated Profession: Why Lighting Design Needs Licensing Now

May 19, 2026 6:00am 58 min

Why does the profession that shapes how humans experience every built space they occupy still have no regulatory recognition — anywhere in the world?Dawn Brown, CLD, Design IALD, Lighting Designer at Ontario Aesthetic Li...

Episode 33: Profit Leaking Out the Floor: Inside Lighting's Broken Spec Process

May 01, 2026 5:00am 1:01

Lighting's go-to-market model is one of the most complex in any product category. Does anyone outside the industry actually understand that—and does it matter if they don't?Amy Bonder came to Luminii from the Fortune 500...

Episode 32: Ron Unterreiner on Cash Flow, Minority Contractors, and the 90-Day Problem

April 14, 2026 12:00pm 1:02

What if the fastest way to bring a project in under budget was just to pay people on time?Ron Unterreiner—retired design-build executive, founder of the People networking initiative and WBEDC, and advisor to the Rise CDF...

Episode 31: From Frustration to Strategy: Lighting Perception, Neocon, and What Comes Next

March 31, 2026 6:00am 23 min

Structural engineers are licensed. Architects are licensed. Why isn't lighting?Hosts Avi Mor of Morlights and Lisa Reed of Reed Burkett Lighting Design go unscripted. It starts with a hotel ballroom running 20 footcandle...

Episode 30: Ten Designers, Three Questions, One Profession

March 17, 2026 10:00am 33 min

Ten experienced lighting designers walk into a conference. Can they agree on what they actually do for a living?"What do you do?" For lighting designers, it's a deceptively hard question to answer well. At the IALD Enlig...

Episode 29: David Woody on Lighting in Storytelling

February 03, 2026 8:27am 59 min

How does lighting affect how we tell stories? Avraham Mor of Morlights and Lisa Reed of Reed Burkett Lighting Design interview David Woody of the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry? They look at how storytelling is a...

Episode 28: Live at ArchLight: Taking the Stage and Taking a Stance

January 21, 2026 8:24am 43 min

Can you quantify why lighting matters—or does defining it ruin everything?  Avi Mor of Mor Lighting and Lisa Reed of Reed Burkett Lighting Design record live from ArchLight Summit 2025, exploring a fundamental question: ...

Episode 27: ASID Chair David Euscher: Making the Case for Lighting Specialists

December 02, 2025 3:00am 38 min

What's the connection between lighting control systems, circadian rhythm, and designing for neurodivergent building occupants?  David Euscher, national board chair for the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) an...

Episode 26: From Tax Credits to Design Excellence: Historic Preservation Lighting

November 18, 2025 3:00am 47 min

What if value engineering meant distilling to essentials instead of cutting corners?  Joel Fuoss, Principal at Trivers in St. Louis, joins hosts Lisa Reed of Reed Burkett Lighting Design and Avi Mor of Mor Lights to disc...

Episode 25: Luci on Creating Memories with Light

October 09, 2025 3:00am 51 min

Why does museum lighting deliver 10x ROI compared to other exhibit elements?  AJ Goehle, CEO of Luci, and Kevin Snow, lighting and set designer, discuss the critical role of theatrical lighting in museum exhibit design. ...

Episode 24: Voices from IES25

September 23, 2025 8:21am 1:15

Hosts Avi Mor and Lisa Reed take the Lighting Matters podcast on location to the IES conference in Anaheim, conducting rapid-fire interviews with five leading lighting professionals. The episode explores how lighting des...

Episode 23: The Hidden Cost of Bad Lighting: An Architect's Perspective

September 09, 2025 3:00am 1:09

Why are expensive light fixtures often the wrong choice for better spaces?  Margaret Cavenagh, Managing Director at Perkins & Will Chicago, discusses her evolution from residential lighting basics to managing complex arc...

Episode 22: Studio K's Karen Herold: Why Bad Lighting Kills Good Design

August 20, 2025 2:06pm 43 min

 "If someone would say we have $1 million for finishes but no lighting designer, or $600,000 with a lighting designer - I choose that second one every day of the week." - Karen Herold  Interior designer Karen Herold of S...

Episode 21: From Overlooked to Essential: The Four Visual Professionals in Architecture

August 05, 2025 10:04am 47 min

"No amount of photometric studies is gonna tell you how it's actually gonna perform until you actually see it at 10 o'clock at night." - Rob Reuland  Avi Mor of Mor Lights and Lisa Reed of Reed Burket Lighting Design ref...

Episode 20: Landscape Architecture Meets Lighting Design

June 25, 2025 1:53pm 59 min

 "No amount of photometric studies is gonna tell you how it's actually gonna perform until you actually see it at 10 o'clock at night." - Rob Reuland  What happens when someone starts taking out trash at 17 and becomes a...

Episode 19: The Tsunami of Maintenance: How Lighting Designers Are Preparing Clients

May 28, 2025 12:21pm 1:13

"A 50,000-hour fixture, if it's on 24/7, like in many municipal buildings or hospitals…it won't even last six years." - Anne Kustner-Haser  Anne Kustner Haser, President of AKLD Lighting Design joins hosts Lisa Reed and ...

Episode 18: What Happens When Architects Ignore Lighting Design?

May 06, 2025 3:00am 49 min

Why are architects who collaborate with lighting designers winning more ambitious clients?  Architect Michael Byrd of Core10 Architecture in St. Louis shares his journey from skeptic to advocate for professional lighting...

Episode 17: Fixture in Hand: The Focus Lighting Method

April 29, 2025 11:00pm 1:08

Why are 90% of lighting designers making a critical mistake by not designing the control systems for their projects?  Tune in as Avi Mor and Lisa Reed speak with Brett Andersen and Kenny Schutz of Focus Lighting. What se...

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