Name: Civic Hacknight #458: Pixels to Parks: Open Space Sandbox (VIRTUAL)
Start: 2024-08-27T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-08-27T21:00:00-04:00

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**Topic:** Pixels to Parks: Open Space Sandbox Leveraging Gaming for Community Design

How can we transform our favourite video games into community engagement tools? We're thrilled to show how we're leveraging these immersive experiences to inspire and develop our park design software.

**Speaker:** Hayley Oleksiak
Driven by a passion for smart, sustainable development, Hayley Oleksiak is a Senior Analyst at James Lima Planning + Development, creating urban solutions from site-specific to regional scales. Inspired by her childhood love of SimCity, she founded [Open Space Sandbox](https://www.openspacesandbox.com/) to develop gamified citizen engagement tools that empower communities to design equitable and vibrant open spaces.

**Agenda:**

* 7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
* 7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
* 7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups

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**About Us:**

* Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!

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