Port Stephens will soon be the home to four interactive outdoor digital display boxes, designed to enhance the feeling of safety for women and girls in public spaces.
Port Stephens will soon be the home to four interactive outdoor digital display boxes, designed to enhance the feeling of safety for women and girls in public spaces.
The display boxes, or ‘Henges’, will be temporarily installed in Yaccaba Street Nelson Bay, Port Stephens, brightening the street with interactive art, sound and light.
Port Stephens was chosen as a location for the project because of our community’s commitment to ensuring “great places” as evidenced through place activation and our place plans.
The project is a collaboration between Name.Narrate.Navigate, Urbis, SAPHI Engineering, Design Anthology Peclet Technology led by FASTLAB at the University of Newcastle supported by NSW Government Smart City Innovation Challenge.
This data will be used to improve public spaces at night time through interactive art, light and sound installations which will be located in Yacaaba Street, Nelson Bay. The expected install date is September 2024, with artwork to be in place for a period of 6 months.
The project will gather data via the digital display boxes to improve public spaces, increase the feeling of public safety, and promote areas for women and girls to walk, play, relax, eat and exercise at all times.
As part of the project, Port Stephens Council is inviting female artists living in Port Stephens and the Hunter Region to submit an Expression of Interest to feature their artwork on the display boxes.
Expression of Interest’s can be submitted here.
Applications for the EOI’s close on the 25 April with the installation of the Henges expected later this year.
