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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Stewards: Design as a Tool for Safer Public Spaces with Cara Chellew and Rayna Sydney Syed
In this Stewards piece we connected with Cara Chellew and Rayna Syed to investigate how design can shape experiences in public space, and why practitioners must challenge planning and design norms.
Stewards: Facilitating Healing in Public Space with Taboo Health
In this week’s Steward’s piece, we connect with Taboo Health founder, Maria Cheung, and collaborators, Chieng Luphuyong and Fran Quintero Rawlings, to understand the roles of art, co-creation, and continued learning in creating physically, mentally, and culturally safe spaces.
Stewards: Symbols & Systems of Representation with Monument Lab’s Paul Farber and Ken Lum
This week we reconnect with Monument Lab co-founders Paul Farber and Ken Lum to explore the need to engage Othered voices in reimagining symbols and systems of representation in public space.
Stewards: Honouring Community Partnership Through Design with Krista Nightengale & Matthew Clarke
In this Stewards piece we discuss the value of community partnerships as a driving force behind reimagining safety in public space, with Krista Nightengale (Managing Director of the Better Block Foundation), and Matthew Clarke (Executive Director of Design Trust for Public Space).
Stewards: Expressions of Place-keeping with Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook
In our inaugural Stewards piece, we take a deep dive into unpacking and unlearning colonial relationships to the land, as well as their implications for public safety, with Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook (Senior Lead of Indigenous Engagement at Evergreen and Future Cities Canada).