In the context of the on going research Mobile A2K: Culture and Safety in Africa, Latitude just came back from a series of archival researches in Lisbon to find material on the urban growth of Luanda, especially during the Portuguese colonialism (before 1975).

Latitude, responsible for one of the three case studies, Luanda, and for the mapping process of the research, is looking for both documents that allow to understand the role that public art, in its broad sense, has played in the city and ways of representing the city itself. The research seeks to analyse and compare cultural events and public art in Douala, Johannesburg and Luanda in order to examine their experiences in the field of cultural events, the production of public art and their consequences on urban safety.

Being safety the other key issue of the research, Latitude is especially looking at spatial devices, patterns and design that since the early growth of Luanda can talk about that in positive or negative terms.