MAPPING A SAFER NSW FOR WOMEN AND GENDER DIVERSE PEOPLE
Your Street.
Your Park.
Your Journey.
Your Way.
YourGround is a collaboration between Monash University XYX Lab and CrowdSpot. This project has been funded by Transport for NSW through the Safer Cities program, in partnership with the NSW Women's Safety Commissioner and the NSW Department of Communities & Justice.
YourGround respects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and cultures. This research takes place on the lands of First Nations people and we wish to acknowledge them as Traditional Owners. We would also like to pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.
Welcome
Women and gender diverse people should feel safe, welcome and valued in all public places across New South Wales. Help make public places better by sharing your experience.
YourGround NSW was designed by CrowdSpot in collaboration with Monash University’s XYX Lab. It’s a crowdmapping website that enables women and gender diverse people to identify and share places that make them feel uneasy, scared, unwelcome; or happy, safe and included. With this project, we hope to empower women and gender diverse people to call out safe and unsafe experiences and geographically identify spaces where they have good as well as concerning experiences. The map unearths real stories of women and gender diverse people and makes them visible to advocate for change.
The previous YourGround project from 2021 in Victoria received more than 6,000 submissions identifying key safe and unsafe locations across the state.