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Co-designing Active Neighbourhoods
from Jiya Benni Portfolio
by Jiya Benni
1. CO-DESIGNING ACTIVE NEIGHBOURHOODS
Year: 2018 - 2020 Organisation: The Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT) Type of project: Participatory planning
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Funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada, this was a collaborative project between The Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT) in Toronto, Montreal Ecology Urban Centre in Montreal and Sustainable Calgary in Calgary. I worked closely with the different partners for multiple things, couple of which are listed below:
NeighbourPLAN - This was a neighbourhood design project that put residents at the centre. As part of this, design workshops were held with community members and professional experts from fields such as architecture and urban design. I co-facilitated two of these workshops.
Co-design toolkit - This toolkit consists of various tools such as Asset Mapping, Emotional Mapping, Empathy Walk, Infrastructure Audit etc which can be used in workshops by communities to understand the state of active transportation in their neighbourhoods. Each tool includes a facilitation guide and some sample materials.
An intersection that was co-designed at a NeighbourPLAN workshop in Peterborough.
Facilitating a NeighbourPLAN workshop in Peterborough.
Facilitation Guides that have been developed for the co-design toolkit.
