Our Projects

CityStudio aims to create social innovators and change makers who will contribute on the ground in Vancouver and around the world. Projects are co-created, designed and implemented by teams of students, city staff and community members.

  • Plan Your Vote

    Vancouver + Globally

    Plan Your Vote

    Online application that helps votes plan their vote before going to the ballot box.

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    Drain Forest

    Vancouver

    Drain Forest

    Drain Forest: a structure to decrease leaf clogging of Vancouver drains.

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    Tell-a-Friend 3

    Metro Vancouver

    Tell-a-Friend 3

    Feasibility report for a Tell-a-Friend initiative being integrated into an existing community or immigration support program.

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    Smarter Parking

    Metro Vancouver

    Smarter Parking

    Using artificial intelligence to help Vancouver utilize its existing parking resources more efficiently.

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    Tell-a-Friend 2

    Metro Vancouver

    Tell-a-Friend 2

    An integrated marketing campaign recruiting volunteers for the Tell-a-Friend initiative.

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    EcoPouch

    Anywhere

    EcoPouch

    An environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional food storage products.

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    Rentability

    Vancouver

    Rentability

    An app supporting renters through the rental journey to build resiliency.

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    Street Seats

    Vancouver

    Street Seats

    An affordable parklet template for local businesses to foster community connections.

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    Macrame Salon

    Metro Vancouver

    Macrame Salon

    A social enterprise beauty salon designed to empower immigrant beauticians.

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    Raincity

    Vancouver

    Raincity

    Educating homeowners about disconnecting their downspout.

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    The Living Pallet

    Terminal Avenue Skytrain Station

    The Living Pallet

    Transforming the underbelly of Skytrain stations using vertical pallet gardens.

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    Cozy Crates

    Anywhere

    Cozy Crates

    To create community agency in placemaking by providing a toolkit for creating free cozy spaces.

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    Zoned Out

    Vancouver

    Zoned Out

    A guide to enhance current housing strategies by incorporating students’ needs.

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    Textile Recycling

    Vancouver

    Textile Recycling

    Understanding the current opportunities and challenges faced by clothing providers in Vancouver.

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    ThinkDisaster

    Vancouver

    ThinkDisaster

    A service that provides local businesses with personalized continuity plans to recover from a disaster faster.

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    The Coop

    Vancouver

    The Coop

    A platform that optimizes the way parents explore, compare and arrange care for their children.

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    GigCity

    Vancouver

    GigCity

    Empowering creative freelancers to find work and build relationships using an online job platform.

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    Wellbe

    Vancouver

    Wellbe

    Strengthening workplace communication and interactions that foster wellbeing.

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    Honey, Leaf + Bumble

    False Creek Flats

    Honey, Leaf + Bumble

    A bee awareness centre in Vancouver which provides workshops, tours, a restaurant, and retail space for public education on bees.

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    Branching Out

    Branching Out

    Citizen science program enlisting the help of grade three students to collect data on forest health indicators.

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    Rewild Vancouver

    Vancouver

    Rewild Vancouver

    A wilderness recovery strategy that aims to educate and empower Vancouver’s residents to help the built environment work more closely with the natural environment.

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    OURS Consignment Hub

    Mount Pleasant

    OURS Consignment Hub

    An inclusive consignment and upcycling community to help educate and divert textile waste from landfills.

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    Rise Up!

    Vancouver

    Rise Up!

    Increasing Indigenous votership and political involvement in Vancouver.

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    Birds, Barks & Boats

    Kitsilano Shoreline

    Birds, Barks & Boats

    Spatial analysis of marine bird communities and recreational disturbances along the Kitsilano shoreline.

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    I Heart Dunbar

    Dunbar

    I Heart Dunbar

    An exercise in bolstering disaster preparedness through neighbourhood pride and connectedness.

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    Patio Jams

    Cambie Bridge

    Patio Jams

    An interactive music space for people to connect and feel uplifted.

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    Connect Fort

    Cambie Bridge

    Connect Fort

    A large scale blanket fort that is a space for all ages to meet, connect and play.

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    City Gone Wild

    Cambie Bridge

    City Gone Wild

    An educational installation to show the potential of underutilized urban spaces to enhance biodiversity.

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    ChalkTalks

    Cambie Bridge

    ChalkTalks

    Bringing art and engagement to an underutilized space in the form of public chalkboards.

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    Buddy Up!

    Across Vancouver

    Buddy Up!

    A community board designed to share skills and interests for a more collective Vancouver.

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    YIMBY

    Commercial Drive

    YIMBY

    Welcoming and including homeless citizens in neighbourhoods outside of the Downtown Eastside.

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    Umbrella Taxi

    Imagination Zone

    Umbrella Taxi

    Modelling friendly citizen behaviour and engaging Vancouverites in whimsical conversation.

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    TeaTalk

    Imagination Zone

    TeaTalk

    TeaTalk is a mobile tea-serving cart that offers space for conversation and social connection.

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    Street Art

    Mount Pleasant

    Street Art

    Fostering connections and reimagining public space through collaborative community art.

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    Ask Lauren

    The Lauren

    Ask Lauren

    Community concierge pilot project creating vertical communities in apartment buildings.

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    placeLAB

    Creekside Park, Science World Plaza

    placeLAB

    An innovative experiment in placemaking.

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    History of Northeast False Creek

    Northeast False Creek

    History of Northeast False Creek

    Historical plaques designed to ensure that meaningful stories from the past figure prominently in the way this area is envisaged for the future.

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    Urban Campfire

    Vancouver

    Urban Campfire

    Urban Campfire is a bid to hold communal campfires in public spaces throughout the city.

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    Campfire

    Locarno Beach

    Campfire

    Introducing shared public firepits on Vancouver beaches.

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    Colouring Cambie

    Cambie Bridge

    Colouring Cambie

    Colouring Cambie aims to create temporary chalk-painted pedestrian walkways that are interactive and engaging.

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    Deck the Dark

    MacLean Park (Strathcona)

    Deck the Dark

    Improving community safety and encouraging interactive play by illuminating Vancouver’s parks during the dark winter evenings.

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    Orphaned Spaces

    Grandview-Woodland

    Orphaned Spaces

    Research and mapping of unused public land in the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood.

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    The Long Table

    1800 Spyglass Place

    The Long Table

    A project series connecting high-level, policy-based goals with real people by connecting around a Long Table.

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    The Stoop

    East Vancouver

    The Stoop

    Furniture design and research for Vancouver's deconstruction wood waste to meet the 2015 landfill ban.

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    Ugly Apples

    ​SFU Campus

    Ugly Apples

    Ugly Apples is a local, handmade and accessible solution to the problem of food waste.

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    ​Choy-On-The-Go

    ​Downtown East Side (DTES)

    ​Choy-On-The-Go

    Choy-On-The-Go provides fresh affordable produce to Chinese seniors in the DTES.

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    IllumiLane

    Imagination Zone

    IllumiLane

    An interactive light up bike and walk way that integrates art into active transportation.

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  • Vancouver
    A Snapshot of Inclusivity
    Looking at Public Space through the Lenses of Our Citizens.
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    Kitsilano
    Discover Kitsilano Walking Tour
    A walking tour showcasing neighborhood resilience to new-comers.
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    Designing for Difference
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    How Does the Public Understand ‘Best Before’ Dates?
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    Cultivate Inclusivity
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    Neighbourhood Clubhouse
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    Climate Influx
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    Sunset Solutions – Tree Planting, Care & Retention
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    Victoria-Fraserview Green Engagement Initiative
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    False Creek Water Quality
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    Food waste: Educate to mitigate
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    Shared Boundaries
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    Omniate
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    Fence³ (F³)
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    De-Reconstruction
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    Capra Tilapia
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    StudyHubble (Study, Connect, Socialize)
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    Restoration Plan for Everett Crowley Park
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    The Success of Pacific Herring Net Deployment in False Creek
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    Jericho Beach Gold Rush – Pursuit of the elusive forage fish
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    Expanding Leisure
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    Climate Emergency Dialogues
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    How We Move: Feedback from Vancouverites
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    7 Symbols of Granville
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    Guaranteed Opportunities? Toward an anti-colonial approach to policy analysis for poverty reduction
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    The New Commons
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    Boardwalk and the Beast: A Case Study in Assessing Park Health
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    Metro Vancouver
    Soundscape for a Renewable City
    A sound installation depicting sounds of a renewable city.
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    Vancouver
    Engaging With Vancouver Millennials
    Determining how the City of Vancouver can best engage with millennials in the city-wide planning process.
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    Vancouver + Globally
    Plan Your Vote
    Online application that helps votes plan their vote before going to the ballot box.
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    Vancouver
    Vancouver Underwater
    City-wide Plan advertising campaign.
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    Charlson Bay Park
    Charleson Bay Island
    Restoring shoreline and promoting indigenous environmental education.
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    Vancouver
    Drain Forest
    Drain Forest: a structure to decrease leaf clogging of Vancouver drains.
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    Metro Vancouver
    Tell-a-Friend 3
    Feasibility report for a Tell-a-Friend initiative being integrated into an existing community or immigration support program.
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    Metro Vancouver
    Smarter Parking
    Using artificial intelligence to help Vancouver utilize its existing parking resources more efficiently.
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    Northeast False Creek
    Building for Biodiversity
    Enhancing Northeast False Creek’s intertidal biodiversity through shoreline design.
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    Metro Vancouver
    I Wish Vancouver
    A platform where youth can express what city issues matter to them.
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    Metro Vancouver
    LAP – WHAT? HOW? WHY? ENJOY!
    A non-digital marketing strategy to increase awareness and engagement of the Leisure Access Program.
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    CycLLIST
    Reducing bike theft one cyclist at a time.
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    Metro Vancouver
    Tell-a-Friend 2
    An integrated marketing campaign recruiting volunteers for the Tell-a-Friend initiative.
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    Vancouver
    Be Smart with Sharps
    Research and recommendations for a safe sharp disposal education campaign.
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    Vancouver
    Salvaged Materials Market
    Fostering a market for salvaged materials in Vancouver.
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    Anywhere
    EcoPouch
    An environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional food storage products.
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    Marpole
    Orphaned Spaces: Marpole
    Research and mapping of unused public spaces in the Marpole neighbourhood.
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    Across Canada
    Reconciliation Calls
    Calling non-indigenous students to Truth and Reconciliation action.
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    Vancouver
    Rentability
    An app supporting renters through the rental journey to build resiliency.
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    Vancouver
    Street Seats
    An affordable parklet template for local businesses to foster community connections.
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    Metro Vancouver
    Macrame Salon
    A social enterprise beauty salon designed to empower immigrant beauticians.
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    Burnaby Mountain
    Ugilicious: No Waste, Great Taste
    Raising awareness of food waste by using unsold produce to create nutritious meals.
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    Marine Gateway
    A Home for Everyone: The Densifiers
    Using mental mapping to create positive notions of high density living.
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    Downtown Vancouver
    Public Spaces Documentary
    A documentary project exploring Vancouver’s downtown public spaces
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    Vancouver
    Raincity
    Educating homeowners about disconnecting their downspout.
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    Metro Vancouver
    Don’t Stop The Raindrop
    Encouraging homeowners to participate in green infrastructure by disconnecting their downspouts.
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    Vancouver
    Revisit the Couve
    A social media campaign to combat negative attitudes towards transit in Vancouver.
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    Anywhere
    EcoSmart App
    A CO2e diet calculator and community meal sharing app.
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    Terminal Avenue Skytrain Station
    The Living Pallet
    Transforming the underbelly of Skytrain stations using vertical pallet gardens.
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    Anywhere
    Cozy Crates
    To create community agency in placemaking by providing a toolkit for creating free cozy spaces.
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    Vancouver
    Zoned Out
    A guide to enhance current housing strategies by incorporating students’ needs.
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    Downtown Vancouver
    Charge and Connect
    Keeping young people connected to the world with free mobile charging stations.
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    Vancouver
    Game of Shores
    The board game that teaches youth about Vancouver's shoreline health.
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    Vancouver
    Ten Different Things
    Ten local artists provoke, prototype and test new visions of art and civic life in Vancouver.
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    Vancouver
    Textile Recycling
    Understanding the current opportunities and challenges faced by clothing providers in Vancouver.
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    Vancouver
    Triple E’s
    Exploring the role of students in a Zero Waste Ambassador program.
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    Vancouver
    Choose to Reuse (Cool Cup Project)
    Barriers and opportunities to reducing single-use cold cups in restaurants.
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    Vancouver City Hall
    Vancouver Student Manifesto
    A student-focused manifesto designed to impact the Vancouver City Plan.
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    Vancouver Bike Routes
    Seniors Safely Cycling
    Assessing bike routes for an assisted-cycling program.
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    Vancouver & Beyond
    529 Garage Short Films
    Short films in support of the 529 Garage bike recovery service.
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    Skytrain Stations
    BlueBox
    Unboxing the stigma around mental health.
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    Vancouver
    Student Food Network
    Partnering with food establishments to provide $5 student meals.
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    Vancouver & Beyond
    The Night is Young
    A toolkit for designing art-centric, nighttime events for youth.
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    Metro Vancouver
    Tell-a-Friend
    Research to support development of the Tell-a-Friend initiative.
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    Vancouver
    Zero Paper Cups
    A video promoting the use of reusable cups.
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    Harvest Community Foods
    Bike ‘n Business
    Helping to create bike-friendly businesses.
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    Vancouver
    Informing Voters to Vote
    Materials to encourage citizen participation in the 2018 municipal election.
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    Downtown Eastside
    Mitigating Vancouver’s Urban Heat Island Effect
    Designing physical interventions to keep things cool in the DTES.
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    Vancouver
    Living Walls
    Conceptualizing the implementation of ‘Living Walls’ in Vancouver.
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    Vancouver
    Environmental Education at Community Centres
    Understanding environmental education and programming offered at each community centre.
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    False Creek Shoreline
    Rock’n Shorelines, Happy Seaweed
    Assessing rockweed in False Creek to help restore natural urban ecosystems.
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    Vancouver
    Communicating Ecological Footprint
    Communicating ecological footprint information to diverse audiences.
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    Vancouver Bike Routes
    Improving Urban Cycling
    Collecting user feedback on safety and comfort of Vancouver's bike routes.
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    Vancouver
    ThinkDisaster
    A service that provides local businesses with personalized continuity plans to recover from a disaster faster.
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    Vancouver
    The Coop
    A platform that optimizes the way parents explore, compare and arrange care for their children.
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    Vancouver
    GigCity
    Empowering creative freelancers to find work and build relationships using an online job platform.
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    Vancouver
    Wellbe
    Strengthening workplace communication and interactions that foster wellbeing.
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    False Creek Flats
    Honey, Leaf + Bumble
    A bee awareness centre in Vancouver which provides workshops, tours, a restaurant, and retail space for public education on bees.
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    Vancouver
    Rewild Vancouver
    A wilderness recovery strategy that aims to educate and empower Vancouver’s residents to help the built environment work more closely with the natural environment.
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    Vancouver
    Vancouver Voting Van
    A modern take on increasing political knowledge and participation amongst low-income households.
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    Tower Beach Trail
    Guided Mindfulness Walk
    Increasing awareness about the benefits of natural settings for mental well-being.
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    Mount Pleasant
    OURS Consignment Hub
    An inclusive consignment and upcycling community to help educate and divert textile waste from landfills.
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    Vancouver
    Paths to Sustainability in the Iranian Community
    An investigation of the challenges and possibilities for including the Iranian community in the city's sustainability efforts.
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    Vancouver
    Rise Up!
    Increasing Indigenous votership and political involvement in Vancouver.
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    Community Centres
    Rewilding Vancouver
    Understanding and promoting environmental education programming through community centres.
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    Dunbar
    Road to Resilience
    Engaging the Dunbar community in emergency preparedness.
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    Granville Entertainment District
    The Open Washroom Project
    Providing a framework for solving public urination in Downtown Vancouver.
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    Grandview-Woodland
    Grandview-Woodlands Block Level Resiliency Toolkit
    A people-based approach to resiliency and emergency preparedness.
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    Downtown Eastside (DTES)
    312 Main Community Asset Mapping
    Building the foundation to a resilient neighbourhood.
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    Vancouver
    Put Waste in its Place
    An initiative to reduce single-use items by encouraging restaurant patrons to bring reusable containers.
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    Vancouver Bike Routes
    Motivation for Movement
    An investigation into barriers and facilitators to youth cycling in Vancouver.
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    Kitsilano Shoreline
    Birds, Barks & Boats
    Spatial analysis of marine bird communities and recreational disturbances along the Kitsilano shoreline.
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    Vancouver
    Mugshots for Sustainability
    A social media campaign raising awareness of the negative impacts of single-use cups.
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    Vancouver
    Do You Really Need That Steak?
    Determining which form of advertising provokes greater engagement around the consumption of red meat.
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    Dunbar
    I Heart Dunbar
    An exercise in bolstering disaster preparedness through neighbourhood pride and connectedness.
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    Cambie Bridge
    Patio Jams
    An interactive music space for people to connect and feel uplifted.
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    Cambie Bridge
    Connect Fort
    A large scale blanket fort that is a space for all ages to meet, connect and play.
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    Cambie Bridge
    City Gone Wild
    An educational installation to show the potential of underutilized urban spaces to enhance biodiversity.
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    Cambie Bridge
    ChalkTalks
    Bringing art and engagement to an underutilized space in the form of public chalkboards.
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    Across Vancouver
    Buddy Up!
    A community board designed to share skills and interests for a more collective Vancouver.
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    McAuley Park
    Keys to the Streets
    Bringing free, playable pianos to public spaces in Vancouver.
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    Commercial Drive
    YIMBY
    Welcoming and including homeless citizens in neighbourhoods outside of the Downtown Eastside.
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    Grandview-Woodland
    East Van Skill Share Fair
    Connecting individuals and building a more self-reliant community.
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    Imagination Zone
    Umbrella Taxi
    Modelling friendly citizen behaviour and engaging Vancouverites in whimsical conversation.
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    Imagination Zone
    Food Recovery Project
    Revealing Vancouver’s food recovery resources.
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    Imagination Zone
    StareChairs
    Urban furniture activated with public art.
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    Imagination Zone
    TeaTalk
    TeaTalk is a mobile tea-serving cart that offers space for conversation and social connection.
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    Mount Pleasant
    Street Art
    Fostering connections and reimagining public space through collaborative community art.
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    Grandview-Woodland
    Britannia Food Share
    Redirecting surplus food from local businesses to a youth meal program.
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    Everett Crowley Park
    Outdoor Learning Project 2
    Designing and building the infrastructure that supports outdoor learning in Everett Crowley Park.
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    Everett Crowley Park
    Outdoor Learning Project 1
    Encouraging and facilitating outdoor learning inspired by the Park Board's Rewilding Vancouver strategy.
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    Stanley Park
    Learning in the Leaves
    Pilot project bringing outdoor classrooms to the city.
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    The Lauren
    Ask Lauren
    Community concierge pilot project creating vertical communities in apartment buildings.
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    Creekside Park, Science World Plaza
    placeLAB
    An innovative experiment in placemaking.
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    Northeast False Creek
    History of Northeast False Creek
    Historical plaques designed to ensure that meaningful stories from the past figure prominently in the way this area is envisaged for the future.
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    Vancouver
    Urban Campfire
    Urban Campfire is a bid to hold communal campfires in public spaces throughout the city.
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    Kitsilano
    Local Foodsteps
    Signs in your community pointing you to local, sustainable food assets.
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    Locarno Beach
    Campfire
    Introducing shared public firepits on Vancouver beaches.
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    Cambie Bridge
    Colouring Cambie
    Colouring Cambie aims to create temporary chalk-painted pedestrian walkways that are interactive and engaging.
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    Vancouver Transit
    Harassment on Transit
    Exploring social sustainability and geographies of social inclusion in the city.
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    MacLean Park (Strathcona)
    Deck the Dark
    Improving community safety and encouraging interactive play by illuminating Vancouver’s parks during the dark winter evenings.
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    Jim Deva Plaza
    Living at Bute
    Possibilities for public space in Vancouver's West End.
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    North False Creek
    iGo: Bike Network Wayfinding
    Repairing gaps in Vancouver’s bicycle network to improve accessibility for cyclists in the city.
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    Woodwards & Science World
    BikeLab: Bike Repair Stations
    Bringing bike repair stations to the streets of Vancouver.
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    McAuley Park
    Reimagine Your Park
    Engaging and activating orphaned greenspaces in Vancouver.
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    Vancouver
    Van BirdCity
    Research into a bird program for Vancouver.
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    Grandview-Woodland
    Orphaned Spaces
    Research and mapping of unused public land in the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood.
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    1800 Spyglass Place
    The Long Table
    A project series connecting high-level, policy-based goals with real people by connecting around a Long Table.
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    Downtown Vancouver
    Compost Collective
    Food waste diversion pilot projects in Vancouver’s multi-family buildings.
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    East Vancouver
    The Stoop
    Furniture design and research for Vancouver's deconstruction wood waste to meet the 2015 landfill ban.
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    ​SFU Campus
    Ugly Apples
    Ugly Apples is a local, handmade and accessible solution to the problem of food waste.
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    ​Downtown East Side (DTES)
    ​Choy-On-The-Go
    Choy-On-The-Go provides fresh affordable produce to Chinese seniors in the DTES.
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    ​Renfrew Community Park
    Sam the Salmon’s Ravine Quest
    A fun, place-based, experiential learning resource in the form of a quest.
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    Arbutus Corridor​
    BIOPOLIS: The Card Game
    An exciting card game centered around biodiversity and fun!
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    Imagination Zone
    IllumiLane
    An interactive light up bike and walk way that integrates art into active transportation.
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