CityStudio Vancouver

The CityStudio Spring Cohort is please to present their Open House + Dialogue

CityStudio invites you to an Open House and Dialogue:
UNDER ONE ROOF

How do the Greenest City Goals hit the ground?
When? Saturday, March 31st, 2012 from 11am-4pm. [Open Dialogue from 1pm-3pm].
Where? Salt Building (85 West 1st Avenue), in Olympic Village.
Cost? Free!

Join us for a grand exhibition and showcase of this work and participate in a dialogue with students, faculty, city staff, and community leaders on how to make Vancouver the Greenest City in the world.
Be sure not to miss the one chance to see what happens when students are granted the opportunity to get creative with a momentous city-wide initiative.
Over 200 students from Vancouver’s six post-secondary institutions have been working on projects related to Vancouver’s Greenest City 2020 Goals.

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Last Fall our inaugural cohort worked on creating projects that contributed towards Vancouver’s Greenest City Goals. These are the final outcomes, read & enjoy!

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Vancouver has set a visionary goal to be the Greenest City in the world by 2020.  Achievement of this goal requires all hands on deck.  In 2010, the City of Vancouver invited ideas from citizens and CityStudio was among the winners.

CityStudio Vancouver is an energetic hub and center for sustainability education. CityStudio aims to be the world’s most innovative inter-institutional campus-city collaboration for learning and implementation of urban sustainability strategies.

The City is the Classroom where students work on long-term, real world projects.

The goal of CityStudio Vancouver is to directly involve students, professors and universities in the implementation of Vancouver’s Greenest City 2020 goals.

Together, we can focus hundreds of students with immense energy, talent, resources and optimism on Greenest City solutions.

The Need: Complex Local Problems in a Globalized World

Cities around the world will spend trillions of dollars in the next decade in response to the complex demands of population, energy, resource depletion and climate change.  Virtually no city is on target to meet these challenges although many are setting ambitious green goals.  Vancouver is among them, striving to become a global sustainability leader by 2020.  That’s only 8 years away – we need to engage citizens now.

 A Semester in the City

The program and course-work focus on identifying opportunities in the green economy and provide support and training to emerging sustainability leaders. Student cohorts target Vancouver’s Greenest City goals such as zero waste, climate leadership, access to nature and food security.  Through dialogue, community engagement, asset mapping, inter-organizational collaboration and demonstration projects, students focus their knowledge and energy on implementing greenest city goals through coursework.

Each year at CityStudio is divided into three phases: problem framing, implementation, and evaluation.  The fall cohort designs solutions to greenest city goals and the spring cohort selects from among those solutions and implements.  In the summer we evaluate the initiatives and set focus for the coming year.  Cohorts build on the work of previous students to scale up successful solutions.

What makes this approach unique?

The City is the classroom where students and instructors work on long-term, real world projects.

British Columbia has one of the best post secondary education systems in the world.  CityStudio directs this huge, untapped creative power towards urban sustainability. CityStudio…

• Directly involves students and faculty in designing solutions to Vancouver’s Greenest City 2020 goals.

• Builds networks of students, faculty, city staff and community members to implement Greenest City projects.

• Mentors students who will graduate ready to effectively lead sustainability projects.  No assembly required.

• Connects emerging green entrepreneurs with seasoned business leaders in order to expand the green economy.

View the December 6th, 2011 Media Release Here Final Release for C3 Event-Dec6-10pm

View the Fall 2011 CityStudio Student Project Publication Here CityStudioPublication.

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