Philly has free, publicly accessible essential resources, like drinking water and bathrooms, located throughout the city. Importantly, can you find them when you need them?

That’s the mission of the website PHLASK, an online database intended to provide answers and spark conversations on this very topic, said Billy Hanafee, a project contributor.

“When and where are resources made freely available, and when and where aren’t [they] freely available?” he said. “Why is that the case? And as soon as we ask why that is or isn’t the case, we can have an important conversation and ask, ‘Should we try to do more about this? Is this a problem that needs to be fixed?’ ”

PHLASK was born out of a social practice art project called Philadelphia Assembled .

“It assembled a variety of different c

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