It has been eight years since Elsa Marie D'Silva launched Safecity, a-first-of-its-kind crowd map of personal stories of sexual violence in public spaces. Since then, the former aviation professional, has been at the forefront of creating awareness about safer spaces for women, through her non-profit, Red Dot Foundation. "From the crowd map, we learnt that sexual violence doesn't occur in isolation; it's the result of a combination of factors. In the stories we collected [12,000 at present], we identified why certain locations became comfort zones for perpetrators."

At a two-day Urban Thinkers Campus seminar, that's part of the UN Habitat's World Urban Campaign, Red Dot is inviting persons from government, business, civil society and the youth, to help design solutions to create public spaces that are safe from the gender and climate resiliency perspective. Climate and gender go hand in hand, says D'Silva. "The reason more women die in floods, is because they are either stuck in their homes, or caring for their children, or just don't know how to swim, because swimming is not considered a skill women should have," she says.