Inviting youth to a global movement of design activism

On Friday, September 17, 2021, Urban Minds hosted a Park(ing) Day event outside 105 Bond St, inviting students and visitors to take a “Brake at Bond”. 

Park(ing) Day is a global, public, participatory art project where people across the world temporarily repurpose street parking spaces and convert them to tiny parks and places for art, play, and activism.

“Brake at Bond” is a fuel station designed by Urban Minds in collaboration with Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Urban and Regional Planning that welcomes students back to campus and is open to the public. “Brake at Bond” features an interactive art installation in the form of a “Welcoming Tree”, a bike tune-up station, and a mini farmers’ market run by the University’s Urban Farm. Fresh, spray-free produce harvested the day of is sold at affordable rates to students and visitors!

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In the media

Our 2021 Park(ing) Day event was featured in the Toronto Star. In the article, our co-founder, Ryan Lo, discusses the many possibilities of rethinking how we can use space dedicated to cars in more human-oriented, sustainable ways. 

Our co-founder, Angela Ng, talks about our Park(ing) Day 2021
collaboration with Toronto Metropolitan University's students in an interview with Bluedot Living. ​

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Brake at Bond is made possible through the support of: