This is partially why I led with the notion that although place is important, it's really your impact as services and networks across a variety of spaces that could be construed as public as well.

In terms of what the film centre does in that particular community, we certainly have quite a number of open-type policy initiatives where the community itself is welcome to come to our space. We run a number of different programs through our film and television department that welcome some of the students who go to schools in that community. That is just par for the course of being a good neighbour and a good cultural centre in a neighbourhood.

More important is the type of community-based work we do. For example, through our digital media department, the technology start-up products that we create can be deployed in other sectors and in other communities, and we can actually distribute such deployment in channels that are embedded in communities.

A good example of this is the work that we are doing with the Toronto Public Library system and its various community partners, like the Parkdale economic community development initiative, which is working on a number of different community service-based activities, including the development of a land trust, community gardens, etc. We are pairing that type of domain subject-matter work embedded in the Parkdale community with virtual reality experience productions that would highlight and provide more enhancement and understanding of the impact of such services in that community through the use of virtual reality and augmented reality. These types of experiences then get distributed through the Toronto Public Library system, including the public library.

On May 8, a Jane's Walk is happening that is being run by the Toronto Public Library system. Community residents can take a tour of the Parkdale neighbourhood. We are using AR-based technology created by our startup Albedo Informatics to showcase and highlight how the community has changed over the years using augmented reality on mobile devices. That is the first-ever AR-enhanced Jane's Walk in that particular neighbourhood.

It's this kind of intervention that I think creates the notion of these types of distributed network hubs.

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