HUBBUB 25

HUBBUB is CityStudio Vancouver’s celebration of co-creation and collaboration between City Staff, faculty and post-secondary students. At HUBBUB 25 , you’ll discover innovative student ideas, prototypes, and and research projects designed to make Vancouver more sustainable, equitable, and joyful. Projects respond to multiple City of Vancouver priorities including rainwater management, climate communication, green infrastructure , data and AI innovation, and community stewardship.

Live In-Person Showcase – December 03, 2025
CityStudio Vancouver, 1800 Spyglass Place

Join us at our CityStudio headquarters to explore this Fall’s collection of creative and co-designed student projects. Browse project displays, meet the brilliant student teams, and engage with City staff, partners, and community collaborators.

After visiting the projects and learning about the ideas and solutions students have developed, don’t forget to vote for your favourite projects in the People’s Choice Awards! You can also cast your vote remotely, after reviewing the project profile pages below.

Voting closes at 12:00PM PST on December 03. Winners will be announced at our live in-person event.
Don’t miss our Wall of Awesome — a space to recognize and celebrate our extraordinary academic and City who helped make Fall 2025 possible.

We can’t wait to welcome you to HUBBUB 25 at CityStudio Vancouver!

A big shout out to our Event Sponsors Digitech and Honest to Pete Roasters !

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City Staff

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Student Projects

After visiting the projects and learning about the ideas and solutions students have developed, don’t forget to vote for your favourite projects in the People’s Choice Awards!

Course Collaborations

Students participating in Term-Long or Course Collaborations work as individuals or teams on a hands-on, applied project over the course of a term. These collaborations usually take place with third and fourth year students. Some projects are more complex and may require a multi-disciplinary, multi-year exploration, or might benefit from in depth research. CityStudio Research Collaborations usually involve graduate students or those in directed studies.

Vancouver Rainscape

Vancouver Rainscape explores how heavy rainfall changes the soundscape across different urban spaces....

Designing for Collaboration

Designing for Collaboration is a communication design project focused on helping CityStudio clearly...

CityParser: Your AI Guide to Vancouver’s Official Development Plan

Urban planning and zoning documents are often too long, technical, and difficult for...

Growing Better Cities: How Stewardship Improves Vancouver’s Rain Garden Performance

Our project analyzes whether stewardship improves the performance of Vancouver’s rain gardens by...

Greener Together

Community stewardship measurably improves Vancouver’s green rainwater infrastructure by boosting vegetation health and...

Stewardship’s Value on GRI

Community stewardship significantly improves the performance of Vancouver’s GRI sites. Using condition assessments...

FleetForesight

This project explores how predictive analytics can transform routine maintenance records into practical...

Green Rainwater Infrastructure & Property Value: A Comparative Street Analysis

Our project analyzes how Green Rainwater Infrastructure influences property values across Vancouver. By...

Water Perseveres

The history of the lower mainland watershed from a critical decolonial perspective.

The Journey of Water: From Rain to Salmon with Rainy Raindrop

"Rainy Raindrop goes on a water cycle adventure around a city! Students create...

The Stewardship Effect: Cleaner, Greener, More Consistent Rain Gardens

Using City of Vancouver’s bio retention assessment data, our project demonstrates that stewarded...

NURTURING Our Waterways:A Decolonial Approach to Urban Rainwater Management and Ecological Stewardship

The unit focuses specifically on the plan and implementation of the Rainway City...

Fleet Management Software Market Analysis

This project analyzed the fleet management software market to identify key trends, capabilities,...

How Does Community Stewardship Impact the Performance of Rain Gardens in Vancouver?

The team analyzed condition score (overall site condition) and subcomponent scores

Evergreen: Simplifying Climate Conversations for Everyone

In a time when misinformation can shape how communities understand and respond to...

One Tap Away Chatbot: Technology to Provide Resources Against Gender-Based Violence

Imagine ChatGPT with specialized knowledge in gender-based violence support services in Metro Vancouver....

Engagement Collaborations

New to our showcase is our Engagement Collaborations – an innovative type of collaboration at CityStudio Vancouver. These projects come together with a lighter touch approach, meaning we have the opportunity to engage with more, sometimes more than a hundred students, for a project that invites students to reflect on and understand experiential learning from the first two years of their post-secondary education.

Our Expert Judges

Every HUBBUB we welcome three expert judges (one City staff + one faculty + one CityStudio alum) to explore the showcase and select 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place projects to be celebrated at the end of the showcase. This semester we are proud and grateful to have the following judges

People's Choice

Our Champions

At CityStudio Vancouver, no one exemplifies the work we aim to do more than our champions. We truly admire these folks for their commitment to change in the City and to mentoring students. In this anniversary edition, we’re celebrating three Champions who have championed CityStudio Vancouver through the years since its inception, saying YES. These individuals are not only committed to collaborative city-building and community-engaged learning but have provided us with invaluable insights and feedback, dedicating countless hours, and imagining new possibilities to expand our collective impact. These Champions have been an integral part of helping to make Vancouver more sustainable, equitable, and joyful.

HUBBUB 25 Wall of Awesome

Each semester CityStudio Vancouver brings together City of Vancouver staff with faculty from partnering post secondary institutions . Without the collaborative efforts of the following individuals, we would not be able to get students working on projects with the potential to shake things up at City Hall! Thank you for all your openness and innovative work! Below you’ll find the City Staff and Faculty Champions from Fall 2025

Awesome City Of Vancouver Staff

Mark Alger

Evan Dacey

Tyler Fahmi

Chris Higgins

Nadine Maurus

Julie McManus

JR Santos

Rob Veer

Madeleine Wilson

Awesome Vancouver Faculty

BCIT
Motasem Alidab

Michal Aibin

Linda Butterfield

Eric Liu

Youri van Vliet

SFU
Heba Maghraby

Milena Droumeva

Jeannie Kerr

Ozge Nilay Yalchin

Gillian Russell