Our decisions about what we make space for reflects what we value and how we try to live our values. It is intimately connected to our identity and easy to understand on an individual level. Widening our lens a bit, how do decisions about how our public space is used reflect our values as a community? And how many of us are involved in making the decisions about the use of the space we share to reflect our values?

Eleanor Breeze is an artist living and working in Cambridge. In 2018, she formed an art collective named Motion Sickness with Denise Kehoe and Arabella Hilfiker, and in 2019 they opened a project space in Cambridge. She is now Community Director and Co-Founder of Together Culture. This toast was delivered as part of Together Culture’s Dinner of Ideas series, with the theme: ‘How Does a Vibrant Creative Scene Make Everyone’s Life Sweeter?’