Faculty of Design
Environmental Design - Interior Design Specialization
Issey Vivienne Calica
The Coalescent
Interior Design
2026
An Urban Eco-Social Intervention in the Jane and Finch Intersection
“Underserved neighbourhoods are often lacking in safe public gathering spaces, opportunities for cultural exchange, access to quality green space, and meaningful connections to nature. Combined with the increasing prioritization of mobility over habitability in cities, intersections that once held the potential to act as informal social nodes have become dominated by vehicles and left underoccupied by people. This thesis proposes an urban eco-social intervention at the Jane and Finch intersection that redirects traffic flow underground, allowing the surface to re-emerge as a civic landscape of gathering, exchange, and ecological restoration. Through a rotating public market, café, and community-focused programming, the site becomes a place where diverse cultures can converge through food, commerce, and everyday interaction. A vast landscape and waterscape, anchored by meadow spaces, planted terrain, and collected water systems, reintroduce nature into the urban fabric, healing social and ecological fractures while fostering belonging, environmental literacy, and collective urban life.”
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