[Commlist] One day symposium on "Light, Night and Urban Sustainability"

“Light, Night and Urban Sustainability” is a one-day symposium for April 
9^th in Montreal.

More information may be found here 
https://theurbannight.com/light-night-and-urban-systainability-a-symposium/

If you are in the area, please attend – admission is free and the event 
is open to the public.

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Light, Night and Urban Sustainability:
A Symposium
McGill University, April 9, 2019
Description:
This symposium tackles the question of how the night-time of cities 
might be made environmentally sustainable, accessible, safe and 
culturally effervescent.  A key (but not exclusive) focus of the 
symposium is the role of lighting in the night-time experience of cities.
The night-time of cities has emerged in the last 15 years as a key 
concern of public policy across multiple sectors.  New instruments of 
municipal governance (like night mayors), studies of night-time 
economies, activism to achieve the safety of women in the urban night, 
the extension of cultural activities into late night (nuits blanches, 
etc.), night-time transportation initiatives (the Nochebus in Mexico 
City), and movements for the preservation of  music venues are all 
symptoms of the new attention which cities and city-dwellers are paying 
to their nights.
How might we sustain an experience of the night which is unmarred by 
endless conflicts over noise and illumination, safe for all genders and 
sexualities, accessible by public transportation and culturally diverse 
and effervescent?  With experts from a variety of fields, the symposium 
will take up these issues.
This event is made possible by a grant from the the McGill 
Sustainability Systems Initiative under its Adapting Urban Environments 
program. It is open to the public and free of charge.  For more 
information, contact the organizer, Will Straw, at (william.straw /at/ mcgill.ca)
Program
Daytime session: Thomson House, 3650 McTavish St., Montreal, 2nd floor
9:00 – 9:10
Welcome and introduction
Will Straw, James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies
9:10 – 10:00
Facets of Night
Leni Schwendinger, Creative Director, International Nighttime Design 
Initiative, New York; Visiting Research Fellow, London School of Economics
10:00 – 10:45
The impact of artificial light at night on biodiversity and human health 
in urban areas/Impact de la lumière artificiel de nuit sur la 
biodiversité et la santé humaine en milieu urbain
Johanne Roby, Professor, Groupe de recherche sur la pollution lumineuse, 
Cégep de Sherbrooke
Moderator:  Anouk Bélanger, Professor, Département de communication 
sociale et publique, Université du Québec à Montréal
10:45 coffee break
11:00 – 11:45
Projected Pacification: The Representation of Montreal’s History in Cité 
Mémoire
Josianne Poirier, Ph.D, Art History, Université de Montréal
Moderator: Dr. Beatriz Polivanov, Professor, Department of Cultural 
Studies and Media, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil (Visiting 
Scholar, McGill University)
12:00 – 1:00 lunch
1:00 – 2:00
Living the night in a context of violence against women
Adelina Lobo-Guerrero, Night mayoress of San Luis Potosí, México 
(Alcaldesa de la noche en San Luis Potosí)
Moderator: Itzayana Gutiérrez Arillo, doctoral student (Communications), 
McGill University
2:00 – 2:45
The Night Bus System in Mexico City
Jorge Cáñez, Former coordinator, Nochebus system in Mexico City,
Moderator: Robert Catherall, PhD student, Department of Geography & 
Planning, University of Toronto.
2:45 coffee break
3:00 – 4 :00
Nighttime, the magic hour
Fady Atallah, Creative Director: Urban Spaces, Moment Factory
4 :00 – 4 :45
Architectural Project(ion)s for the Urban Night: Explorations in the 
Design Studio
Ipek Tureli, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Canada Research Chair 
in Architectures of Spatial Justice, McGill University
Evening session
Room 114, MacDonald-Harrington Building,  School of Architecture, 815 
Sherbrooke St. W.
5:00 – 6:30  Exhibition of student projects/reception/vernissage
“Architectural Project(ions) for the Urban Night.”
6:45 Panel
Diverse, dynamic, sustainable: Remaking Montreal’s Night Cultures (panel)

Host: Anthony Galati, cultural programmer
Moderator: Danji Buck-Moore, musician, engineer, DJ, scholar and organizer
Participants:
Marie Davidson is a Montreal-based artist & musician. Internationally, 
she plays an integral role as one of Montreal’s most in-demand exports, 
both as a solo performer, and in her collaborative efforts as one-half 
of Essaie pas and SLEAZY. Her most recent album, last year’s Working 
Class Woman, was lauded by Pitchfork, Resident Advisor, The New York 
Times, et al as one of 2018’s best electronic albums.
Mouna Andraos, is co-founder of Daily tous les jours (Dtlj), design 
studio that creates large scale interactive installations driven by 
collective experiences. Dtlj uses technology and storytelling to explore 
collaboration, the future of cities and the power of humans. They are 
best known for its work in public spaces, where passing crowds are 
invited to play a critical role in the transformation of their 
environment and their relationships.  Their interventions are 
opportunities to enable change, stimulate engagement that sparks 
conversation amongst strangers, and create strong bonds between citizens 
and their environment.  Dtlj’s work has won numerous international 
recognitions including Best in Show at the IxDA Interaction Awards, the 
Grand Prize at the UNESCO Shenzhen Design Awards, the Knight Cities 
Challenge for Civic Innovation, the Fast Company Innovation by Design 
Award, and an Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Award. They are 
also very active in the design and digital arts communities, giving 
lectures and workshops worldwide, notably at SXSW, EYEO, INST-INT, New 
Cities Summit, TEDx, Ars Electronica.
Ellise Barbara is a Montreal-based avant-garde singer-songwriter, song 
selector (TS Ellise), speaker, pinup, and community organizer (Taking 
What We Need), whose musical output combines elements of soul, jazz, 
psychedelia, and underground. A lover of the odd, dark, and overlooked 
elements in pop music, they find inspiration in unexpected sources, like 
off-the-radar acts Su Tissue, Kashif, Francis Bebey, and obscure New 
Wave duo Rexy, in addition to mainstream luminaries like Mary J. Blige. 
Rising from artist-run spaces such as LaBrique and Drones Club, Elle 
Barbara has seen their work soar to enduring acclaim in Japan and 
Europe, in a short career whose highlights include duets with Laetitia 
Sadier & R. Stevie Moore. Since going on a hiatus, Barbara’s efforts 
have been partly centered around trans community organizing. Their band 
the Black Space, whose lineup is solely made of musicians of Sub-Saharan 
African descent aims to re-center blackness and reject racialized and 
anti-black tropes within music and art spaces.
This event is co-sponsored by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research 
on Montreal/ Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études 
montréalaises (CIRM/CRIEM) and the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of 
Architecture (McGill University).  It is made possible by a generous 
grant from the McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative under its 
Adapting Urban Environments program.  Additional support was provided by 
the James McGill Professor in Urban Media Studies (Will Straw).
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