Latitude is participating to the workshop Mobile A2K: Culture and Safety in Africa which takes place in Vico Morcote (Switzerland) 10-14 March 2012.

The  five-day workshop gathers international scholars and experts in order to produce a methodology guide to analyze and evaluate the impact of cultural events and public art on urban safety in Africa. The workshop specifically focuses on the cities of Douala, Luanda and Johannesburg and it involves scholars and experts in architecture, design, urban studies, philosophy, sociology and African culture from Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, Cameroon, South Africa and Angola.

The research addresses the questions: “How cultural events and public art affect urban safety in African cities?” and “Can we assess these changes as positive according to a group of factors?”.

Luanda, which has assisted in the last seven years to a post-war cultural strategy, will be the case study where Latitude will be working on.