World Urban Forum’s first talk on The Night

Good Nights: Rethinking Urban Safety, Wellbeing, and Community Through Culture After Dark

Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 16:30-18:00, Multifunction Hall Room 7
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This event is the first session in WUF history with a focus on urban nighttime. Co-presented by VibeLab, European Forum for Urban Security (Efus) and the Efus Women in Cities Initiative (WICI), the Global Parliament of Mayors, and UN-Habitat Safer Cities. 

Moderated by Juma Asiago from UN-Habitat Nairobi, and Diana Raiselis from VibeLab, Berlin, will be joined by:

• Barbara Holtmann, Director, Fixed Africa/Women in Cities Initiative (Efus), South Africa 
• Emilija Gaidyte, Night Economy Commission Member, City of Vilnius, Lithuania
• Lewamm Ghebremariam, Board Member/Awareness & Diversity Department Lead, Berlin, Clubcommission, Germany
• Mathieu Grondin, Co-Founder, MTL 24-24, Canada
• Moritz Kuebart, Speaker, Deputy Mayor’s Office, City of Mannheim, Germany
• rafi, Co-Founder, TS Raver, Germany

Find out more about the speakers here

Through a series of lightning talks, followed by panel discussion and exchange between panellists and members of the Global Parliament of Mayors, this session will seek to establish a shared definition and understanding of “safer nights,” and then showcase examples of good practices from cities worldwide. In addition to this contributors will be asked to propose potential indicators that can provide deeper insight into urban safety and security beyond traditional crime metrics. As UN-Habitat’s Urban Safety Monitor continues to evolve, these proposed metrics will feed directly into Lab activities of generating and validating new indicators for urban safety and wellbeing