The built environment sector faces significant challenges in designing urban spaces that include and benefit marginalised communities, particularly for LGBT+ young people. Too often, these spaces feel actively ostracising, unsafe, and undignified.

Gender-based and sexuality-based crimes have skyrocketed, and most responses to LGBT+ violence in the public realm often rely on outdated, binary - and sometimes harmful - ideas about who young people and gender diverse people are and how they use the city.

In October 2024, Publica CIC and Mosaic Trust explored feelings of safety and belonging in a series of workshops with young LGBT + persons who attend a weekly youth club at Mosaic Trust’s centre in Camden.

Engaging in street tagging, collective mapping, model making, and manifesto writing, the young LGBT+ persons examined what and where feels safe, accessible, and inclusive in the area. Together, they laid out a vision for Camden where all young persons can be their true, unfiltered selves.

The built environment sector faces significant challenges in designing urban spaces that include and benefit marginalised communities, particularly for LGBT+ young people. Too often, these spaces feel actively ostracising, unsafe, and undignified.

Gender-based and sexuality-based crimes have skyrocketed, and most responses to LGBT+ violence in the public realm often rely on outdated, binary - and sometimes harmful - ideas about who young people and gender diverse people are and how they use the city.

In October 2024, Publica CIC and Mosaic Trust explored feelings of safety and belonging in a series of workshops with young LGBT + persons who attend a weekly youth club at Mosaic Trust’s centre in Camden.

Engaging in street tagging, collective mapping, model making, and manifesto writing, the young LGBT+ persons examined what and where feels safe, accessible, and inclusive in the area. Together, they laid out a vision for Camden where all young persons can be their true, unfiltered selves.

Publica CIC’s collaboration with Mosaic Trust focuses on platforming and empowering the voices of queer youth in the built environment - at a local and London scale. Working across three objectives - access, advocate, implement - we want to directly address the lack of collaboration with young people in city making processes, and the lack of diversity in the built environment sector.