Our Current Focus
SSIDI is concentrating on three connected areas that shape the everyday pedestrian experience.
Where do people walk? Are pedestrian spaces available, accessible and usable? What happens when those spaces are blocked, damaged, poorly designed or absent? SSIDI seeks to understand and draw attention to the everyday spaces on which pedestrians depend.
Safety is not simply about telling pedestrians to be careful. The environment itself matters. SSIDI looks at the conditions pedestrians encounter and helps build understanding around practical ways those conditions can be improved.
Many unsafe conditions persist partly because they have become familiar. Through communication, education and engagement, SSIDI seeks to make the pedestrian experience more visible and encourage shared responsibility for improvement.
How We Work
We begin with the pedestrian experience itself. We do not begin by assuming the answer.
Shared Responsibility
SSIDI seeks constructive engagement with communities, professionals, businesses, relevant public institutions and others whose role or expertise can support pedestrian spaces, safety or awareness. Proposed relationships are never presented as established partnerships.