Kirsten Wilkins

Urban Designer. Part Wolf. Maker of safe spaces. TedX. My opinions are my own. 🇿🇦#type3fun

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

Cape Town development is both cement and lament. Either way, reach out so we can help you navigate this complex ecosystem.

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

This makes me sick to my stomach @Our_DA
How is someone who admits to beating women eligible for office? How.

[Eyewitness News @ewnupdates]

Democratic Alliance (DA) Ward 108 candidate Rudi Stevens has defended his bid for public office after a 2021 video showing him assaulting his then-wife resurfaced, saying he has changed and wants to help communities affected by gender-based violence (GBV). https://t.co/u8VsZg7K2L

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

I haven’t heard any campaign effort put behind, or real discussion around keeping women and children safe.
That is what I will be voting for.
Renewable energy and economic development are great, love that for people who are alive.
Speak up. Show me the plans.
#Elections

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

@RoryPetzer Or people with challenges can be given some grace 🙏
You don’t know what people are struggling with.
Happy Invisible Disability Week.

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

@SABSApproved 😡 #deafawarenessmonth

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

Worst than home affairs.
SABS. It’s taken me more than an hour to get through antiquated logins and search functions to BUY a R1200 digital document of standards that ensures equitable access for people with disabilities… that should be FREE.
@GovernmentZA

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

Something for political parties to remember in the next month.
A City is never experienced the way it is measured.
Average commute time.
Number of kilometers of infrastructure built.
Average rental price.
People don’t vote for metrics. They vote for improved daily dignity.

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

@NewStreetsSA With love. Please close all underpasses. Mugging hotspots by design. No woman would use it if there was an alternative. Not accessible to persons with disabilities.
A ‘solution’ to avoid investment in safe streets.

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

Cape Town Affordability.
I don’t know.
R1mill for a 35sqm apartment at Conradie (Paarl Rock).
To cover a bond on this unit and let it out it would need to be priced at 12k/mth.

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

So much to discuss on planning law today.
Also @KevBloom give me a follow so I can message you please ✊

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

Hahahahah. No. 🤮
Recruiter charging me to apply for a job. No thank you, grifting, scamming opportunist employed by Development Bank SA.

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

Signed up to LinkedIn Premium to boost my job search. Yay 😀
Also discovered an ex-colleague (who I don’t follow) that regularly checks my profile. Weird 😳

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

This is one of the most profound statements I have come across regarding culture, education and job creation.
A sobering view on how designers swoop in.
@sunestassen
@VosJames @geordinhl

https://t.co/CLwit6p1Jl

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

@CityofCT @geordinhl Yes and clicking on any meeting link gives me this

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

Hey @CityofCT all your website links to your meetings calendar/council and committee meetings are broken.
It’s very problematic to access information that should be transparent to the public.
Please resolve ASAP
😳😳😳😳😳
@geordinhl

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

Foreshore freeway.
Why now.
Methinks development rights for the gateway precinct are stalling and pre-sales are not meeting expectations.
People who need to be attracted to the CBD cannot afford to stay there and must commute.
Q: Is affordability more affordable than a freeway?

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

I’m just a girl standing in front of a government asking why build more roads?
https://t.co/VhGXqFgSNS

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

This.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real footage from 126 years ago.

What you are watching is the trottoir roulant, the moving sidewalk, built for the great World's Fair in Paris in 1900.

More than a century ago, three years before the Wright brothers would make the first airplane flight, the city built an electric street that carried you across itself while you simply stood there...

It ran in a loop of around three and a half kilometres, raised on a viaduct above the fairgrounds, with nine stations where you could step on and off.

And it had a clever design: two moving platforms side by side, one going at walking pace and one faster, so you could step onto the slow one first, then onto the quick one, and ride the whole circuit in about twenty-six minutes without taking a single step.

Nearly fifty million people came to that fair, and for most of them it was the first time they had ever moved through a place without taking a step.

The very first moving walkway had appeared seven years earlier, at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, built by the same designers. But the Paris version was longer, faster, and far more sophisticated, and it was here that the world truly fell in love with the idea.

It astonished people. The thought that the ground itself could carry you felt like magic, like something out of a dream of the future. They even called it the Rue de l'Avenir: the Street of the Future.

Thomas Edison sent a crew to film it, which is why we can still watch it today...

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

Cape Town seems pretty calm. That said, I have made two trips out to Stellenbosch via the N2 last night and today.
I saw one patrol vehicle.
One. 😳

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

@tarathinks It’s a distant cousin of the congestion charge. I support the idea as a mobilty intervention but where that money goes could change everyone’s perspective.
If it was ringfenced to use for something meaningful to you, what would that be?

Investigative journalism piece loading..

[Kirsten Wilkins @contestedspaces]

No surprises @UCT_news protests disrupt lectures. Students being intimidated. Burning of tires. Such a shitshow. Every year.
I understand, but also there is no active management of the situation. Access to campus also choked by no parking disc management system in place.
Le sigh.