{"id":1120,"date":"2006-09-07T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T20:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:41:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:41:27","slug":"artful-street-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/09\/07\/artful-street-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"Artful Street Furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a city where street furniture is designed by psychiatric survivors and artists. It&#8217;s a far cry from a city with fully harmonized street furniture covered in advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something to help spark your imagination.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"248\" height=\"179\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/84\/234491380_82242806d3_m.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/92\/234491772_a4f3faeb04_m.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tree and dog sculptures-cum-bike stands were designed by a group of psychiatric survivors who meet at Parkdale Activity and Recreation Centre (PARC) on Tuesdays.<\/p>\n<p>The stand is out in front of PARC. There are, apparently, two more sculptures to be installed this month that incorporate solar panels. But, PARC administrators are trying to figure out how to theft-proof them since someone has taken some marble off of this one.<\/p>\n<p>PARC, along with tangenTs (of <a href=\"http:\/\/6stjoseph.ca\/\">6 St. Joseph House<\/a>), will be hosting a juried exhibit of &#8220;outsider art&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladstonehotel.com\/parc.htm\">September 30th at the Gladstone Hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PARC artists  create from a place of &#8220;human renewal&#8221;, reflecting their experience <strong>that urban  renewal often excludes those who do not have possessor rights in today&#8217;s  society<\/strong>. Ultimately, bricks and mortar need renewal but so do people&#8230;where can  they go when the places they frequent become out of their reach?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bold emphasis is mine. I wonder if the City would be willing to intentionally seek out the input of psychiatric survivors and outsider artists for its recently-launched Coordinated Street Furniture Program. It has initiated a number of studies and public consultations, available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/involved\/projects\/streetfurniture\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The street furniture program has good intentions to beautify Toronto&#8217;s streets, but, as the folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/publicspace.ca\/\">Toronto PublicSpace Committee<\/a> say; <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153&#8230;the project has turned into the <a href=\"http:\/\/publicspace.ca\/sidewalksale.htm\">biggest public space sell-off<\/a> we&#8217;ve seen so far\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As it stands now, citizens of Toronto are more likely to see advertising on their street furniture rather than whimsical and inspiring art.<\/p>\n<p>(See this <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/\/?p=757\">previous post<\/a> on the Spacing wire for cool pics of inventive bike racks in Ohio and Whitehorse.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo<\/em>s<em> courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/bikingtoronto.blogspot.com\/\">BikingToronto<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a city where street furniture is designed by psychiatric survivors and artists. 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The tree and dog sculptures-cum-bike stands were designed by a group of psychiatric survivors who meet at Parkdale Activity and<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/09\/07\/artful-street-furniture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Artful Street Furniture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4021,"featured_media":0,"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":[7,21758,4],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-community","category-culture","tag-people"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Artful Street Furniture  - Spacing Toronto<\/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\/toronto\/2006\/09\/07\/artful-street-furniture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Artful Street Furniture  - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Imagine a city where street furniture is designed by psychiatric survivors and artists. 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