Deadline: 24-Oct-21
The Bentway is pleased to launch Public Space Fellowship Program to help address these gaps and ensure that burgeoning talent, lived experience, and a diversity of expertise help shape a more inclusive and accessible city for all.
Tasks
- Research and development
- Identify emerging experiments and best practices that have transformed streetscapes in cities across the globe
- Connect with urban space practitioners, creatives, community agencies and advocates to inform and expand learnings, and to facilitate new networks for information exchange
- Synthesize research, insights, and/or recommendations in the form of publicfacing publications and/or presentations
- Guide the development of The Bentway’s Street Summit (April 2022)
- In collaboration with The Bentway programming team, shape and lead a 1-day public program, consisting of panel discussions, workshops, experiments, and keynotes
- Make a research contribution to the Summit, in whatever format is appropriate and of interest to the Fellow
- Assist with outreach and engagement efforts
- Assist with communications strategy
- Inform The Bentway’s ongoing under-Gardiner work
- Inform planning and design studies for future under-Gardiner public realm projects and experiences, including new possibilities for active transportation, way finding, public art integration, and equitable access
Funding Information
$16,000 ($800/week over 20-week fellowship period)
Benefits
- Hands-on Experience: The Public Space fellowship offers unique opportunities for direct engagement in public space and with public space practitioners through site work and over digital platforms. Fellows will benefit from exposure to the day-to-day realities of public space operations and programming.
- Cross-Sector Learning: Fellows will have the opportunity to work closely with creative partners, peer organizations, community stakeholders and multiple City divisions during the duration of the fellowship. They will gain a firsthand look at how public and private entities and individuals actively work to shape the public realm.
- Capacity-Building: Fellows will be invited to attend education and engagement opportunities aimed at sharing individual perspectives, building connections, and furthering collective knowledge of the unique health and safety and equity issues faced by a diversity of communities. These opportunities may take the form of roundtable discussions, working groups, information sessions, and more.
- Professional Development: The Public Space Fellowship will lead to new learnings and relationships that will help the fellow further their career objectives. The Bentway will assist fellows in their future endeavors by facilitating new connections, sharing information about professional opportunities and new developments in the field, as well as offering continued mentorship.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must reside in the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area and have demonstrated experience and interest working in and around public space in areas such as: urban planning and design, architecture, landscape, active transportation, public art, health and well-being, public policy, cultural equity, creative place-making, safety, accessibility, and community engagement, supportive housing, social services, sustainability, and environmental studies.
- They recognize and value a wide range of experiences and expertise, both traditional and applied. Applicants are not required to have professional degrees.
- They encourage applications from individuals who are undertaking relevant community initiatives to engage in city-building processes of critical importance in maintaining or regaining the strength and resilience of cities.
For more information, visit https://www.thebentway.ca/2021/09/16/public-space-fellowship-2022/
