Johnathan Behnke, a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture student, designed a creative concept to memorialize his friend Isaak Kornelsen through public space. Behnke designed a memorial parklet in honour of Kornelsen who died in an accident while cycling to work in Edmonton on August 27, 2012.
The news article featured in Spacing Edmonton on-line magazine can be viewed here [1].
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[1] http://spacing.ca/edmonton/2013/04/04/remembering-isaak-one-students-vision-for-a-temporary-public-space-memorial/