Design Collection

Equity Connects

How might design support greater social and spatial equity in Toronto? To do so, I argue that normative public space design must be interrogated through an intersectional framework. In turn, producing community designed social spaces that address situational socio-spatial injustice.

Equity Intersectionality Social Space Public Space North St. James Town

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Equity Connects
Equity Connects

Environmental Design

Equity Connects

This thesis presents my framework alongside a multi-faceted social space proposal as an interrogation of public space, and the contribution of normative assumptions of public space to issues of social and spatial inequity. The social space proposal... More

Work by

Janai Redman

Environmental Design

“Have you thought about what public space really is, means and embodies; or the benefits and harms stitched into it? Promises of the public realm often differ from the social and spatial realities of...” [More]