Listing Bankstown Arts Centre as her favourite public space, Ms Mansour says that for those that are generally silenced or sidelined or told their voices aren’t important, they have a space here.
“To me, it was the space where I was able to create the community that I was yearning for,” she said.
Created by the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, the series shows how international research and experience during the 2020 pandemic, demonstrate how valuable public space is for our physical and mental wellbeing.
Executive director, Place, Design and Public Spaces, Caroline Butler-Bowdon said: “A public space is so much more than the space it occupies; it is what people, stories and connections bring to it that give it life and meaning.”
With Summer Night Walks featuring broadcaster Tim Ross and his own favourite space, Kelly’s Bush Park, a remnant of bushland on the foreshores of the Parramatta River, the series includes author Julia Baird in Manly’s Cabbage Tree Bay and triple Paralympic gold medallist, Kurt Fearnley, at Newcastle’s Fernleigh Track.
For more, go to dpie.nsw.gov.au and search summer night walks.
