{"id":10137,"date":"2022-11-04T13:25:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T17:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=10137"},"modified":"2022-11-04T13:25:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T17:25:41","slug":"the-future-fix-digital-placemaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2022\/11\/04\/the-future-fix-digital-placemaking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Fix: Digital Placemaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Spacing<\/em>\u00a0and Evergreen proudly present\u00a0<strong>The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada<\/strong>, a special podcast series.<\/p>\n<h3>THIS EPISODE: Digital Placemaking<\/h3>\n<p>Data and technology allow placemakers to experiment with new ways of measuring, designing, and most importantly engaging with the people they are designing public space for. Ideally, digital placemaking empowers everyone to shape the spaces they use, love, and rely on.<\/p>\n<p>Farhaan Ladhani is co-founder and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpublicsquare.org\/\">Digital Public Square<\/a>, an organization who&#8217;s ethos is &#8220;healthy communities enabled by good technology.&#8221; Farhaan explains how digital placemaking can help create ideal public spaces for a wide variety of people:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThinking about the way in which these tools can be used to foster engagement in the community can be really useful for all sorts of things, from consultation, through to participation on decision making, through to the provision of information.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Listen to the episode to hear more about digital engagement tools<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1376534974&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=true&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Spacing Radio\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spacing Radio<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"The Future Fix: Digital Placemaking\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\/the-future-fix-digital-placemaking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Future Fix: Digital Placemaking<\/a><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9159\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue-300x141.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue-600x283.png 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/FCC_Logo_Horiz_Blue.png 792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Future Fix is a partnership between\u00a0<em>Spacing<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evergreen.ca\/blog\/entry\/evergreen-cityworks-building-sustainable-cities-for-the-urban-century\/\">Evergreen<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the Community Solutions Network: a program of\u00a0<span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/futurecitiescanada.ca\/\">Future Cities Canada<\/a><\/span>. 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Ideally, digital placemaking empowers everyone to shape the spaces they<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2022\/11\/04\/the-future-fix-digital-placemaking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;The Future Fix: Digital Placemaking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8312,"featured_media":10138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[411,431,408,422,554,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-communication","category-community","category-neighbourhoods","category-podcast","category-urban-design"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Future Fix: Digital Placemaking - Spacing National<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2022\/11\/04\/the-future-fix-digital-placemaking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Future Fix: Digital Placemaking - Spacing National\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing\u00a0and Evergreen proudly present\u00a0The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. 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