The Bentway’s growing Safe in Public Space initiative broadens the definition of public safety, addressing new public health challenges and deep systemic inequities to build a new shared social contract for public space.

Ebti Nabag
Ebti Nabag examines how ideas of safety manifest and are communicated in public space through borders and boundaries, signs and symbols, public space architectures, and delineations.
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A Settler’s Land Acknowledgement - Public Space is Colonized Space
A Settler's Land Acknowledgement is an exercise in destabilizing the colonial notion of the “public" by exploring the extent to which words and claims matter.