![]() Over the last week of install, we have received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback from community that the artworks enliven the spaces and increase feelings of safety. These artworks celebrate Pride and aim to improve feelings of safety for the local community. ![]() ReVITALise has been commissioned by Transport for NSW as part of the Festival of Place and Safer Cities Program, which supports trials of place-based approaches to improving women, girls and gender diverse peoples’ safety in public spaces.Ĭultural Capital has worked with local LGBTQIA+ artists, Kieran Butler, HOSSEI, Andrew Christie and Alexandra Jonscher to create temporary rainbow lighting installations inside three pedestrian tunnels in the Inner West. We are thrilled to celebrate Sydney WorldPride with the launch of the ReVITALise Sydney WorldPride Rainbow Tunnels Project! □□□ Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Transport for NSW, Claire Wastell, Ben Connolly, Drew Pinazza, Brooke Wharton, Transport Asset Holding Entity of NSW (TAHE), Benedicte Colin, Rob Sharp, Sydney WorldPride, Kate Wickett, Inner West Council, Darcy Byrne, Sydney Trains, Peter Gainsford, Cultural Capital, Kieran Butler, Alexandra Jonscher, Belinda Padovan-Court, Trudi Mares, Kiersten Fishburn, Greater Cities Commission, Chris Hanger, Tara McCarthy MBA GAICD FIML, Peter Harvey, Peter Dunphy, Bernard Carlon, David Featherston, John Hardwick, Amanda Tarbotton, Ella Dunne, Ashlie Hunter, Gisella Velasco, Rosemary Donley, iustina diaconu Newtown pedestrian tunnel (via Bedford & Trafalgar St) Ashfield Station tunnel (via Brown St & Dengate Ave) Petersham pedestrian tunnel (via Trafalgar & Terminus St) Timed for World Pride, the 'reVITALise' program is part of Transport for NSW's safer cities program, which trials place-based approaches to improving safety for women, girls and gender diverse people in public spaces. ![]() Three pedestrian tunnels in the inner west have been given a brilliant revamp by local LGBTIQA+ artists > Where: Level 2, 400 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000 We look forward to hosting you for this important and spirited discussion. Kate Meyrick, urbanist and place maker, thought leader on city scale precincts. (Moderator). Mark McClelland, founder of Cultural Capital, awarded artist and designer, cultural placemaking thought leader Craig Kerslake Wiradjuri Nation, Wiradjuri architect and Director of Nguluway DesignInc. ![]() Dr Elizabeth Farrelly, writer on architecture and ideas, and one of Sydney’s leading advocates for public space and aesthetics Alison Page, a descendant of the Walbanga and Wadi Wadi people of the Yuin nation and an award-winning creative at the forefront of contemporary Australian Aboriginal design and storytelling Mark will then be joined in a panel discussion moderated by Kate Meyrick of Urbis/Future State to explore the subject from several perspectives. Presenting a theory of place honed over a decade of Cultural Capital’s practice, Mark McClelland will share his thoughts on how the work he calls cultural placemaking leads to cities in which our human spirits flourish and we experience a sense of belonging that contributes to both personal and community identity. Please join us at this year’s Vivid Sydney Ideas for Cultural Capital’s discussion ‘(Human) Nature and the City’.
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