The NIGHTS is the most important conference in Europe regarding urban leisure activities, especially at night. The NIGHTS-conference invites all people involved in leisure, nightlife, and festival culture, independently if they represent the industry, science, politics, culture or administration, to take part.

BCK presents: NIGHTS Conference

Nights Conference: Opening

Dieses Panel markiert den Beginn der NIGHTS2022 Konferenz in Zürich, die nun zwar mit einer pandemie-bedingten 2-jährigen Verspätung, doch dafür mit umso mehr politischer und kultureller Prominenz stattfindet. Diese Einleitung ist somit der perfekte Start für die interdisziplinäre Debatte rund um die Themen der Kultur der Nacht und der Freizeitaktivitäten im generellen.

Nights Conference: Alcohol Conference, Part I

In two parts, this panel deals with alcohol consumption, a substance that is still the most popular party drug. In the first part, this panel asks for reasons and about what it is that makes alcohol special. Various approaches to understanding the relationship of alcohol with party culture are examined. In its second part, the panel will address specific offers and campaigns. - Part I -

Nights Conference: How to deal with Mediterraneanisation

Complete avoidance of (usage) conflicts is illusory since life in a city always includes a certain amount of friction. In the current conception of the DACH environmental law, the responsibility lies almost exclusively with the noise source - this procedure leads to short-term problems for places that originate noise. In the medium term, the only viable contextual solution is the most comprehensive possible segregation of uses - destroying the attractiveness of the cities. The panel attempts to give an overview of various regulatory concepts - from Barcelona to Bern to Vilnius.

Nights Conference: Safety@Night

The panel &quot;Safety@night&quot; highlights technologies developed to make movement at night and in the dark safer. Demands and challenges of these technologies are presented alongside qualitative differences of various solutions.

Nights Conference: Alcohol Conference, Part II

In two parts, this panel addresses alcohol, which is still the most popular party drug. After the &quot;Why alcohol&quot; in the first part, Part II is dedicated to the best practices regarding alcohol prevention measures and the challenges which will be examined here. - Part II -

Nights Conference: Closing - Hand over to Public Day

Nights Conference: Verhältnisprävention im Wandel?

Structural prevention is considered an efficient mechanism to prevent misuse of intoxicating substances. It is important to distinguish between regulation by the state and the issuing of guidelines which, for example, have been defined by the nightlife creator and advocates themselves as part of a seal of approval. This panel wants to highlight lessons and limits of structural preventive measures in a highly structured everyday life. The goal is to find a way that aims for promotion of health while also meeting the needs of a hedonistic society.

Nights Conference: Leisure Activities 2022

The Covid pandemic had a major impact on recreational behavior, not just among young people. Everyday activities were interrupted, having fun was factually forbidden by law. What effects did this exceptional situation have on everyday leisure activities? Is &quot;outside&quot; the new &quot;inside&quot;? Is dancing in crowded spaces an expression of protest and a new &quot;Fuck the System&quot; attitude? The &quot;Leisure Activities 2022&quot; panel deals with current studies and trends of recreational activities in 2022 and their significance for club and music culture, as well as the effects of these trends on prevention and harm reduction measures.

Nights Conference: Raver:innen der Gegenwart - Musik, Fashion, Kultur, Konsum

The &quot;disco&quot; became the &quot;club&quot;, the &quot;party&quot; became the &quot;rave&quot;. These terms no longer apply to just any dance event, but have become scene-specific terms for selected nightly events. The development of contemporary night culture, the selected music genres, clothing, scene language, and substance use are examined in this panel. What distinguishes &quot;Ravers&quot;, &quot;Trapkids&quot; or &quot;Goapeople&quot;? How, which, and why do these different groups use substances? Why do they attend parties and, above all, how can harm-reduction organizations enter a discursive relationship with them?

Nights Conference: Sportevents, Violence and Drugs

Attention-grabbing news about the possible widespread practice of consuming illegal, psychoactive substances in Swiss football and ice hockey stadiums raises questions about the extent of this consumption, its risk potential, and possible mitigative approaches to prevention and harm reduction. The panel &quot;Doped viewers&quot; seeks to shed light on these questions.

This panel marks the start of the NIGHTS2022 conference in Zurich. While burdened with a pandemic-mediated, 2-year delay, the conference now presents especially high-class political and cultural voices. This opening is the perfect start for the interdisciplinary debates around topics of night culture, as well as leisure activities in a broader sense.

Nights Conference: Opening

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