Abstract
The efficacy of strategies to improve perceived safety in public spaces will depend on a strong understanding of how women and girls use public spaces and how they perceive and experience personal safety in public. To address these outcomes public policy and planning strategies need to optimise perceptions of personal safety; increase accessibility and activation of public spaces and promote feelings of belonging and inclusivity for safe use at any time. Changing Places is a transdisciplinary design collaboration led by the Future Arts, Science and Technology Lab working with the NSW State Government in Australia. It aims to generate improved understanding of women and girls perceived or real lack of safety in urban and rural public spaces through play, using the transformative power of art to change people’s experience and use of public spaces. Changing Places is an iterative process that involves different custodians of place, together with procured digital media artists and technologists, and women and girl authors in the creation and deployment of a range of digital media interactive experiences. Each of these are calibrated to the local place-based characteristics whilst remaining true to the experiences and feelings of safety of women and girls.
Presenters
Paul EgglestoneDirector FASTLab, Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
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Presentation Type
Theme
Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design
KEYWORDS
SAFETY, PUBLICSPACE, POLICY, PLANNING, DESIGN
