/night-time-design/ en /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/events/policing-night-talk%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E On March 17, 2026, the Night-time Design for/with Marginalized Communities project hosted Dr. Matthieu Caron to present his book Montreal After Dark, a study of how struggles over nightlife reshaped Montreal in the second half of the twentieth century. Moving from the city’s mid-century reputation for cabarets and open vice to the reform campaigns that followed, the talk traces how darkness became a political problem—and a political opportunity. Focusing in particular on the ambitions of Mayor Jean Drapeau, it explores how efforts to regulate sex, alcohol, and public space expanded municipal Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:00:00 -0400 660 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/events/night-watches-us-screening%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E On February 10, 2026, the Night-time Design for/with Marginalized Communities project collaborated with the Moving Image Research Lab to host a screening of the documentary Night Watches Us followed by a discussion with the director Stefan Verna. The film offered a poignant cinematic exploration of the tragic death of Nicholas Gibbs, a 24‑year‑old Black Montrealer who was killed by police while experiencing a mental health crisis and psychosis. Drawing on community accounts and intimate conversations with Gibbs’s loved ones—including his mother, his youngest son, and his nephew— Night Watches Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:27:10 -0500 659 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/events/study-day-festive-city-inclusive%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Like Lyon, Montreal has, over recent decades, established itself as an event-driven and festive city — hosting numerous celebrations and festivals. Yet festivity, like everything else, is political: for whom are these glittering times and spaces created? What processes of spatial and social exclusion are activated during these urban events? How might we make the festive city inclusive? These questions framed the 2025 edition of the Entretiens Jacques-Cartier, an annual interdisciplinary forum established in 1987 that brings together academics, business leaders, policymakers, and cultural Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:26:43 -0500 656 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/dans-la-rue%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Organization Dans la Rue Location Mobile unit with 4 stops Extant Yes Who is it designed for? Dans La Rue is a charitable organization that takes a multifaceted approach to providing support to young people who are homeless or are at risk of homelessness. Made up of a multi-disciplinary team of professionals and volunteers, Dans la Rue provides a number of services which includes mobile outreach, overnight emergency shelter, a day center, family services, workshops, and even permanent supportive housing for 15 young people and two families. The organization’s mobile support service, also known Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:05:54 -0400 Cara Chellew & Alexandre Néron 628 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/getting-out-getting-lost-formal-analysis-lost-translation-2003%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Introduction The notion of ‘getting lost’ is the occurrence of an individual losing their spatial reference, which consists of two elements: the feeling of disorientation and a spatial environment. The feeling of getting lost constitutes part of the human experience of day-to-day life. In A Field Guide of Getting Lost, Solnit thinks the meaning of getting lost extends into the realm of emotions, identity, and existential discovery. [1] This sudden sense of uncertainty, disconnection, and alienation shapes our individual consciousness and perception of the physical environment and mental state Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:00:54 -0400 Yiran Ma 636 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/cityscape-trash-nocturnal-tokyo-tokyo-godfathers-2003-satoshi-kon%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Introduction Tokyo Godfathers is a film about waste, human resolution, and the night. Directed by Satoshi Kon and released in 2004, it is a Christmas film and Kon's least-known work, sitting behind the more widespread influences of Perfect Blue (1997) , Millenium Actress (2001) , and Paprika (2006). As an illustrator and filmmaker, Kon sits within a lexicon of artists who have historically straddled both roles in the Japanese animation industry, where animated works are often adaptations of graphic novels. The industry experienced a boom in the post-war period when successful adaptations of Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:07:42 -0400 Mary Ma 632 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/staging-utopia-queer-performance-tangerine%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Toyland, toyland / Little girl and boy land While you dwell within it / You are ever happy there Childhood's joy land / Mystic merry toyland Once you pass its borders / You can ne'er return again - Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough, Toyland, (Chicago : M. Witmark and Sons, 1903), 3. Introduction Sean Baker’s Tangerine (2015) set in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, is a film about thresholds. The narrative, which follows a day– and night–in the life of two black transgender sex workers named Sin-Dee Rella (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor), ushers the viewer along the wide Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:07:03 -0400 John Vaccaro 630 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/beauty-and-terror-cidade-de-deus%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Ajwad Kabir 642 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/hong-kong-through-lens-chungking-express%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Claudia Ng 641 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/banlieue-screen-impact-urban-design-la-haine%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Marie-Ève Tourigny 639