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Project for Public Spaces is currently accepting resumes for project assistants and interns.

If you would like to be considered for these positions, please forward a resume and cover letter to the attention of Shin-pei Tsay.
In your cover letter, please state why you have an interest in Project
for Public Spaces and how your particular experience and interests
could contribute to our mission.

You may contact Shin-pei at:

Project for Public Spaces, Inc.
700 Broadway, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Phone (212) 620-5660
Fax (212) 620-3821Email Shin-pei Tsay

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  • William Frankling

    CBC Radio interview
    I just heard Mr.Kent’s interview on CBC’s The Current.
    He has some very exciting and timely ideas for us in Canada.Much of our urban design problems have come from allowing the professional planners to have a free hand in the building of our municiplities.Unfortuntely,in many of our thinking and practices, we are still back in the 60′s trends of unrestricted growth.The areas where one sees any hope at all , is amoung an educated public who demand better.It is a shame that we have to destroy something,like a working public space,or a natural area before we decide it was valuable and we want it back.
    But ,there is hope!Groups like yours are providing a wonderful resource for the foot soldiers in the trenches.We need to form coalitions, like the green movement did, to fight against the massively-funded forces on the other side.An informed,educated public is our best weapon.
    Many thanks for your efforts to promote intellegent,public debate and participation.

    Sincerely,
    William Frankling

  • Elyse Pomeranz

    Gratitude
    I am deeply grateful to have stumbled upon the CBC radio interview with Fred Kent. It is such a relief to hear someone advocating for human experience….sometimes I feel like I’m in the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes…surely absolutely everyone has the experience of these “Icon” buildings and the vacuums that surround them….
    I lived for several years on a Gulf Island in British Columbia and there was one place where we got groceries, had little cafes, the post office, gas and little shops…upon returning to the city I had to spend a day to accomplish what I could accomplish in less than an hour of chores, with the added benefit of meeting just about everybody that I needed to talk to about everything.
    There is a wonderful woman here in Toronto called Jutta Mason who has brought to an urban park many of the elements that Fred Kent has described. She has built outdoor wood fire oven, brought in a Farmer’s market, there have been Theatre Festivals, a real Yurt set up to go inside, and there is a community cob wall being built. The park is the Dufferin Grove Park.
    I am currently teaching Art in a Waldorf school and I’ve begun to prepare a project that I call the Ittiffarg revolution….It is to bring art into public spaces as a gift, a free offering. As it is the opposite of graffitti or graffitti backwards one key element in ittifarg is that of relationship with and permission for the gift of the art….the art itself would have an element of surprise, something one wouldn’t be expecting to find where it is….It could be changed by those who find it, it might actually disintegrate with the elements, there might be something that you can take away with you from the installation…..endless possibilities….
    So I have a question…Do you think that the spaces you are developing in Mississauga might be interested in some ittiffarg?