JONATHAN SILVER
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The Forward Movement is an advocacy and awareness campaign working to help Ontario adopt an updated accessible icon. 
  • L'heure de pointe Toronto, Signalisation et accessibilité, les efforts de Jonathan Silver, December 2018
  • Signal Toronto, Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee passes resolution for Toronto to adopt the Dynamic Symbol, December 2017
  • Global Toronto, Activists Call for Government and Businesses to use Dynamic Symbol, August 2017
  • CBC Toronto, 'A forward moving perspective': Why one group is trying to update accessibility signs, August 2017
  • Global News Toronto, Changing perceptions of disability, May 2017
  • Toronto Guardian, Defeating Ableism Through Symbolism, May 26 2017
  • CBC Toronto, Accessibility activists want to ditch iconic symbol, April 2017
  • ​CBC Sudbury, Accessibility icon needs to be updated, Sudbury advocate says, October 2016
  • CTV News, 'Handicapped' sign: Is it time to roll out a new, more empowering one? | Video, September 2016
  • Metro News, Toronto activist pitches revamped wheelchair logo, September 2016​

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The Living Architecture Tour is a map that reveals our city's hidden green roofs and green walls. 
  • Metro News, Take a tour of Toronto's 'vegetative infrastructure' hotspots, July 2015
  • Torontoist, #LivingArchTOur Guides You to the City’s Green Roof, July 2015
  • CBC, What architects looked at when they walked around Hamilton,  May 2015

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Blindfolded Tours help participants experience the city using their non-visual senses. Listening, smelling and touching, participants discover new ways of understanding their city. Book a tour here! My tours were featured at the Toronto Offsite Design Festival (2016, 2017), where they were acclaimed by the Globe and Mail, CBC, Now Toronto, BlogTO and chosen as "expert picks" by critics from Azure and the Globe and Mail.

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The Landfill Bin Project, an urban intervention stickering campaign, redesigns waste bins to incentive recycling.
  • Torontoist, A not-so-subtle reminder, January 2015
  • CBC Toronto, Audio Piece, January 2015

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Jon's Pops was a food business serving up lightly sweetened, all-natural ice pops with real flavours and an emphasis on local sugar.
  • Toronto Star, I Ate This: gourmet freezies from Jon's Pops (video), July 2016
  • Toronto Life, Eight local products made with GTA-sourced ingredients, December 2015

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I got a chance to express my frustration with the telecommunication giants in Canada in the CBC's WhyFi?, a short documentary about the strange and unique names people give their wireless networks.
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