Bellamy?s advocacy includes writing?and being written about?in local newspapers including the Winnipeg Free Press.
Brent Bellamy is an architect and creative director at Number TEN Architectural Group in Winnipeg. He has become a leading advocate for sustainable city-building and human-focused design through public speaking, teaching, mentoring, writing, and engaging with conventional and social media.
Since 2010, Bellamy has contributed a regular column called ?On Architecture? to the Winnipeg Free Press, in which he explores the connections between design and economic growth, environmental sustainability, civic competitiveness and quality of life.
Its popularity led the newspaper to produce a multimedia series and book, City Beautiful: How Architecture Shaped Winnipeg?s DNA, with Bellamy as architectural advisor, narrator and content provider. Bellamy also uses social media to amplify his advocacy, and his opinion is often sought on radio, television and in print.
In 2014, Bellamy became a key organizer of Winnipeg?s first mayoral candidates? debate on architecture and design issues. In 2018, during Winnipeg?s public debate on reopening Portage and Main to pedestrians, he emerged as the leader of the Vote Open side, participating in media interviews, public forums and door-to-door campaigning.
His sustained advocacy work sees him regularly participating in public forums and as an interview subject on radio, television and in print.
Bellamy?s political engagement has broug...