Our Projects | CityStudio Vancouver

Service Industry & COVID-19

The essence of the project is collecting and analyzing data on differences in employment across various sectors of the BC service industry, such as tourism, hotel, accommodation, and retail.

Our group has created an innovative place-making strategy that provides permanent recognition of the tireless advocacy efforts of Filipina activists in Vancouver and Canada, broadly. Our strategy involves placing photos and art of Filipina activists on picnic tables and benches in Collingwood Park, which is a park frequented by the Filipino community.

Online Training Platform

Online Training Platform: We are a group of CIT students from British Columbia Institute of Technology. Our project aims to implement an online Learning Management System for the City of Vancouver’s engineering department so that employees can train at their own pace while achieving greater learning retention with the assistance of mobile learning.

Life in False Creek: Herring Spawning 2022

We built, deployed, and monitored herring nets while sampling water conditions in False Creek. Through analysis, we estimate that shortly after a spawning event there was a total of 135,000 eggs on all the nets in the Creek!! Expansion of efforts like net deployment and habitat restoration are necessary as it would provide degraded herring population more suitable substrate for egg development.

Green Revitalization in Vancouver’s Chinatown

This project aims to highlight the sensitive balance between urban greening and green gentrification in vulnerable cultural neighbourhoods and to showcase how interventions can be chosen based on cultural and community suitability.

Restoring Musqueam Watershed

An exploration of landscape design strategies through a portion of the Musqueam Watershed, where three creeks flow. The project aims to improve stormwater management in order to address downstream flood risk, water pollution and climate change while enhancing habitat. A series of proposed blue-green infrastructure strategies speculate on how to restore natural hydrologic processes to enhance the resilience of the watershed.

Community Organization Networks and GRI Engagement

The City of Vancouver's Green Infrastructure branch is looking for innovative and exciting ways to engage with communities across the city to create dialogue about green rainwater infrastructure. This project explores first steps to building relationships with non-profits and neighbourhood houses that will result in increased engagement and mutual benefits.

Informobility

How would you vote on HUBBUB if you didn’t have sufficient access to your phone or the internet? Likewise, if a bus stop is changed, many are left out of mainstream information and navigational tools. Our solution is placed naturally where a confused transit user will be and assists them in wayfinding to the correct location no matter their level of access to consumer technology.

HoodHub

A reimagined neighborhood corner store that facilitates much more than simply groceries. Other than being a space for farmer sourced and zero waste groceries, it hosts a kitchen during off season to enable accessible food options. It is also a place for the community to hang-out in, have meetings, collective gardening, attend classes and events and much more!

Filipinx Engagement

This project explores the barriers & tools for engaging the Filipinx community on Green Rainwater Infrastructure in Vancouver.

Equitable Green Interventions for False Creek South

South False Creek put Vancouver on the map for its innovative green planning, mixed- income housing and careful design principles. The neighbourhood is undergoing a new plan—the process needs to incorporate climate emergency goals, affordable housing and equity. Our plan includes inclusionary zoning, green development levies and small-scale interventions that allow for development while mitigating the effects of green gentrification.

Why Did the Bee Cross the Road?

A design guide that will assist in the scalable optimization of bioretention bulges in the City of Vancouver, by using green rainwater infrastructure strategies. This guide will also promote the use of specific vegetation to improve connectivity amongst these bulges as part of a pollinator pathway. By enhancing these pollinator corridors, this guide supports local biodiversity.

Vanopoly

Creating a board game to educate youth on planning and development, as well as encouraging them to have more civic awareness

Stanley Park Railway Revitalization

Over the past few years, the long loved Stanley Park Train has fallen into a state of disrepair. The Stanley Park Railway Revitalization project, assigned to SFU’s Sustainable Energy Engineering team, looks to reinvent the Stanley Park Train for the next generation. Their electric drivetrain design powers the train in a fifth of the current operating costs, and eliminates all the ride’s tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions.

Street food for Bees

Green rainwater infrastructure sites are small areas of planted municipal land that help urban sprawls deal with excess rainwater. We aim to enhance the green space services they provide by ensuring they have enough plants that are highly beneficial to pollinators. This will be done by developing a statistical tool which can assess the plant distribution in a site.

B.C. Housing: Endemic

An inquiry into BC Housing and Rental markets since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Comparing pre and post Covid-19 market indicators, we highlight particular age group vulnerabilities accentuated by the pandemic. A contribution to the ongoing discussion of housing shortage in across BC, particularly in Vancouver. We also touch upon Senior Housing, and the role of financialization in Social Care.

Navigate Broadway

The temporary bus stops created to accommodate the construction of the Broadway Subway have seriously impacted transit users’ wayfinding abilities, particularly for disabled and elderly individuals. To address this, Navigate Broadway provides a system of simple strategies for increasing accessibility, safety, and comfort through improved information dissemination.

Green Rainwater Infrastructure in the Sunset Community

Our project is to understand residents' attitudes towards the green rainwater infrastructure (GRI) project in the Sunset Community through surveys and interviews. It further seeks to establish a relationship between biophilic elements of the project and wellbeing, including feelings of belongingness and connectedness to nature. We hope that results will highlight the importance of GRI practices for the future of Vancouver.

Wheel Change Makers

A youth-led biking community that reduces barriers to bike resources and information through a school BikeHub program while also increasing connectivity of schools to protected bike lanes. This initiative will engage with and create a welcoming biking community through incentives and workshops, with the goal of increasing youth and adult bike ridership as a primary transportation method within the city.

Urine Trouble

Need to pee in public? Urine trouble. A methodology for accessible and inclusive washrooms in the Commercial-Broadway area. The methodology centres the expansion of Vancouver's public washroom network and advances recommendations for future washrooms, including higher standards of maintenance, harm-reduction principles, hygiene products/disposal, enhanced safety mechanisms, adequate floor space, and a web app.

The Laneway Menu

The Laneway Menu invites communities to create better laneways in Vancouver by streamlining the activation processes in an accessible, step-by-step toolkit. By offering adaptable development templates to address the local needs of any activation, this toolkit hopes to eliminate information barriers to encourage equity amongst Vancouver neighbourhoods, and inspire a sense of civil agency within our City.

The Accessibility Toolkit

We developed a framework/toolkit to integrate accessibility and inclusion into the internal culture and functions of the City of Vancouver. The framework/toolkit is intended to serve as a reflection tool that encourages different departments to evaluate and improve upon their current policies and approaches to accessibility.

School Active Travel Program (Remastered)

This project was based on changing The City of Vancouver’s page for the School Active Travel Program to an alternative webpage that would further encourage and promote active travel to school for the students, parents, and/or schools. The way we built this alternative website was designed to attract more attention and engagement from students that visit the website, allowing participating students to better understand the program offerings.

Pop-IN Assessment

Pop-IN Assessment is a site assessment tool created with the intent to render more inclusive public spaces, specifically that of the pop-up plazas implemented by Viva Vancouver. We hope this evaluation tool that we have created will push city planners and officials alike to consider more inclusive designs for future public spaces.

Pedestrian Road Safety

Our project was an Integrated marketing communications campaign that aims to communicate the responsibility young pedestrians have for their own safety. Our main goal is to make teenagers feel responsible for their own safety

I Wish I Took the Bus

We created a campaign to promote the implementation of new priority bus lanes, congruent with Vancouver’s climate emergency plan. This campaign is centred around all the benefits that this initiative could provide, namely, a more efficient and convenient transit system, as well as the incentive to shift toward sustainable modes of transportation.

GI Grow

GI Grow addresses the question of integrating closed-loop recycling options into green infrastructure by suggesting recycled materials that can be incorporated during construction. GI Grow discusses ecological and economic benefits of the proposed materials, promotes community engagement, and has created a bioswale model and physical prototype of a recycled tree watering bag to demonstrate parts of the closed-loop supply chain.

Clean Cooking with Electricity

Burning gas for cooking is not only a threat to climate action but also to human health, as these appliances are sources of indoor air pollution. Clean Cooking with Electricity encompasses a public census, marketing campaign, and infographic recommendations to provide an evaluation based on equity, diversity, and inclusion to encourage Vancouverites to make the switch to induction stoves.

Better Benches

Better Benches is an initiative to increase transit user’s knowledge of the local, Indigenous land. Bus stops will be recreated by Indigenous artists that feature a QR code that users can scan to increase place making and user engagement. Once scanned, users will be directed to a website filled with educational resources.

Beat the Heat

A series of recommendations that addresses preparing for and responding to extreme heat events. This project aims to help protect seniors from heat-related illness and death by improving health communication from the government to the public, raising awareness on extreme heat events, and inspiring community mobilization.

As Green As The Trees

Working with the Vancouver Parks Board, we were tasked with finding a solution for their lack of electrical charging infrastructure for current battery powered landscaping equipment at their parks and service centres. Our aim is to design a framework, universal to all locations, that will allow for the implementation of the electric charging infrastructure.

529 Garage: A comprehensive marketing strategy

529 Garage facilitates a community watch service for bike owners. 529 Garage is striving to double its current monthly registration numbers in Vancouver. To achieve this goal, we have recommended a comprehensive, multi-channel marketing strategy to help bolster brand awareness. Our plan focuses on an engaging app, a stronger social media presence, and deeper community and bike shop engagement.

Stop, Look and Listen! & Wear Yellow

Stop Look and Listen & Wear Yellow is a two part collaboration with BCIT D3, CityStudio Vancouver and the VPD that focuses on teaching young schoolchildren how to walk safely as a pedestrian. Through storytelling and visuals, schoolchildren will learn how to tread carefully on their way to school, home and anywhere else.

Landfill Parts Warehouse RFID Business Case

The RFiD Project for City of Vancouver was designed to implement new technology to automate inventory tracking processes. RFiD tags were chosen as the assessed technological option to apply for a streamlined process at Landfill.

Business Operations Management

A software recommendation to track and measure park operations, maintenance and assets

Vancouver

artogo

An interactive and self-guided iOS app that delivers the first ever digital art gallery experience providing NFT art, cultural storytelling, and a location-based travel guide to small but mighty local business patronage. We work to connect local businesses in search of engagement with local artists in need of amplification and community members yearning for a virtual adventure in their own neighbourhoods.

Vancouver

Bike Buddy

An app that helps cyclists navigate, plan and discover bike routes around Vancouver. The app will use GPS to locate and guide the cyclist. The cyclist can also search for routes that meet certain criteria (ie. off-street pathways only, comfortable for all ages, flat incline). Furthermore, the app will send feedback and data back to the City of Vancouver for analysis.

Vancouver

Bridging the Gap

Research that aims to provide recommendations for overcoming barriers to widespread green infrastructure implementation across the City of Vancouver and help strengthen the presence and incorporation of equity into practice.

Vancouver

Broadway Plan Youth Engagement Strategy

Despite living in an era when opinions are fluidly shared in the digital world, it is challenging for the City of Vancouver to receive feedback from Vancouver’s youth. For eight weeks, Langara College Applied Planning students conducted youth engagement to support the City of Vancouver and encourage youth participation in the Broadway Plan.

Climate Action Equity in Canada

Climate action cannot happen without social justice and equity, but what does equitable climate action mean for Vancouver, and how are other Canadian cities doing it already? Case studies of best practices across the country are featured to provide a method for future analysis of social equity projects and plans.

Vancouver

Columbia Market Gardens

A commemorative and pedagogical landscape design that integrates Alberta Street's proposed stormwater management infrastructure into a space that acknowledges Oakridge's history and community and provides fun and educational experiences for people across age ranges, cultures and mobilities.

Corner Growth

Affordable meal kits for Downtown Eastside residents that are easily prepared and distributed through a proposed network of smaller Downtown Eastside’s Washington Community Market (WCM) storefronts, in collaboration with the Community Impact Real Estate Society. Our project put forward a series of recommendations for operational and structural changes to the WCM based on its needs and interests.

Vancouver

Dialogue Diary

A resource that invites engagement among marginalized groups around key topics to build a sense of belonging and self-efficacy, while alleviating stress for community members. Our project aims to promote active participation within the Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood, create an opportunity for personal reflection, and host a safe, equitable and inclusive space for dialogue and reflection.

Vancouver

Erasing Erasure

An EDI Driven program that brings to light the untold Indigenous histories of Gastown through historical awareness, recognition and inclusivity. We recognize that the stories we tell shape the way we interact with and imagine our public spaces. Thus, our program aims to work with the Indigenous community and City of Vancouver to promote Indigenous history and culture, through interactive programs. When we share true stories we create spaces of inclusivity.

Vancouver

Growing Green in Grandview-Woodland

A series of proposed core interventions to increase canopy cover on private and public land, to maximize ecosystem services in areas with constrained planting possibilities, and to combat the negative consequences of climate change. By implementing creative, green solutions to the challenges facing the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood, our project seeks active community involvement through green inspiration, education and stewardship.

Vancouver

Monitoring the St. George Rainway Co-Benefits

Assessing the co-benefits of the St. George Rainway green rainwater infrastructure project. Our plan focuses on monitoring the mitigation of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect and the rainway's impact on biodiversity. We propose using fixed and mobile temperature sensors to monitor UHI. For biodiversity, we suggest the use of rapid biodiversity assessments, quadrats, and citizen science to monitor changes.

Vancouver

Penguin Rewards

This cute, fluffy Penguin helps you get healthier and wealthier while keeping our planet in mind! How? For every step or roll (or waddle) you take, the Penguin Rewards App gives you digital coins that you can redeem for offers or discounts while visiting your favourite local grocers, cafes and restaurants, or while discovering new ones!

PyCity

A python app that automatically collects data from various cities’ open data portals for benchmarking. The City of Vancouver’s financial department manually collects data to benchmark and compare Vancouver’s metrics to other cities like New York City, Toronto, Seattle and Calgary. The process of data collection is labour intensive and time-consuming. Our simple app automated this task by leveraging open data portals and their APIs to extract relevant data.

Queen Elizabeth Park: A Park for Our Community

Do you want to see design interventions such as a viewing platform, food forest, and more cool features implemented within a park? To accommodate for the growing needs of citizens within the area, we strive to enhance Queen Elizabeth Park into a community-based park, focusing on accessibility, broadening amenities, improving connectivity, and engaging the public.

Vancouver

Rain Down the Wrong Path

A marketing campaign that simultaneously highlights combined sewage overflow systems and rainwater runoff pollution issues in Vancouver. The campaign visuals compare rainwater to a presumably innocent adolescent that is actually causing harm in local waterways. The conceptual frame positions green rainwater infrastructure as the “right” path that guides it towards natural soil.

Vancouver

Reimagining Roadways: Promising Practices for Open Streets

Reimagining how streets are used for transportation. Recommendations for how to best implement an Open Streets program based on best practices and guiding principles research, and encourage lasting positive public health outcomes in an equitable and affordable way.

Vancouver

Resaturated

A proposed blueway corridor through a portion of the Norquay Village community, where Still Creek once flowed. The project aims to simultaneously improve water management and the community's engagement with water. A series of connected blue-green interventions link public spaces and are activated by rain water to provide opportunities for education and stewardship.

Vancouver

Sense in Cents

To support events that build a sense of community, promote diversity, enhance the local economy and celebrate what it means to be a Vancouverite, our donation strategy aims to generate income for the City of Vancouver’s Film and Special Events Department so that it can continue to provide all events with operational support.

St George Rainway: From Grey to Green

Using social media and a school workshop to educate the public on the history of Vancouver’s streams and engage them in our iNaturalist citizen science project. Our proposal engages diverse demographics within the community with the St George Rainway green rainwater infrastructure (GRI) project. We hope this can serve as a template for future GRI engagement.

Vancouver

The Punjabi Market Community Zine

A zine showcasing stories of joy, resiliency, and everyday life in the Punjabi Market neighbourhood, featuring traditional community-grown sustainability practices and highlighting the history and heritage of the market. A project by the community, for the community.

Vancouver Plan: Youth Outreach Design

Our youth outreach design complements the Vancouver Plan by facilitating civic literacy and engagement. The event invites Vancouver youth to transcend barriers to political participation, including age-based exclusion and other compounding inequalities. The scalable, adaptable activities introduce the deliberative process through repurposed elements of City Hall structure, such that participants become equipped to contribute towards an inclusive, equitable future.

Vancouver

Accounting for Nature

A primer that directs the user on how to value the tangible and intangible services of our local nature, giving Vancouver’s natural assets a competitive advantage against traditional aging grey infrastructure. An approach that emphasizes the climate risks specific to Vancouver, and centers equity and climate resiliency.

Vancouver

Colour, Kits, and Connection

Improving community emergency preparedness with community-based kit drives and spreading emergency preparedness awareness on social media. Our project proposes to raise funds and supplies, and to encourage community collaboration with local artists. We recommend partnering with BC Housing and community centers to target populations in need.

Vancouver

COVID-19 in Vancouver: Who’s Hurting?

A research project on the opportunities of expanding the Curb Side Patio Permit model to non-profits

Vancouver

Sending Smiles

A Volunteer Opportunity for Youth to Help Alleviate Loneliness among Older Adults

Vancouver

Roofs of Resilience

A public outreach campaign to generate social impetus to drive the adoption of green roofs in Vancouver by creatively and effectively imparting knowledge to Vancouver's residents.

Vancouver

Digital Literacy and Older Adults’ Experiences with Technology

This project aims to address the digital divide through the perspectives of older adults.

Determining the Walkability of Neighbourhoods for Older Adults during the Pandemic

This project aims to use a custom neighborhood environment walkability scale alongside Walk Score to determine if a neighborhood is walkable for older adults during the pandemic.

Vancouver

BanVanWaste

BanVanWaste is a workshop-seminar that promotes a Zero Waste lifestyle by educating, empowering, and harnessing the power of youth. Inspiring young people to take action and get involved.

Vancouver

Walkable Communities

This project helped the City of Vancouver gain an understanding of what a “walkable community” means from the perspective of Millennials ages 20-34, and identified key aspects of such communities that should be incorporated into its ‘Vancouver Plan’. By 2030, The City of Vancouver hopes 90% of people are living within an easy walk and roll of their daily needs.

Metro Vancouver

VanCityNeeds

A glowing, visually stimulating installation which uses a QR code decal to connect participants with an online survey. Our aim is to engage youth between the ages of 18 and 25, and to find out what they need in order for the city to feel complete, connected, and culturally vibrant.

Vancouver

VanCanPlan Scavenger Hunt

We “VanCanPlan”-ed an interactive scavenger hunt and engagement tool that fosters community connections amongst youth while gaining insight on youth opinions. Scavenger hunt locations introduce participants to local businesses or organizations within their community. Participants then fill in a short survey about resiliency and emergency preparedness to unlock clues to the next location and are entered in a prize draw.

Vancouver

Stories of Victoria-Fraserview

A visual storytelling project that aims to amplify Victoria-Fraserview residents’ lived experiences through mural and street art. Our group of UBC graduate students are working alongside Wendy Mendes (CoV), Zahra Esmail (SVNH), and other city planners, community programmers, and artists to make it happen.

Vancouver

Shield Your Community

To develop an integrated marketing campaign for 529 Garage that builds brand awareness and recognition. Our task was to create an overall theme, design creative campaign elements and develop media recommendations.

Vancouver

Seeing Green

Seeing Green will connect Vancouver's citizens through a map and education-based app. Our investment in education creates opportunities for community stewardship. Seeing Green will be the city's go-to resource for green infrastructure education and support the creation and maintenance in Vancouver.

Vancouver

Roots to Resilience: A Community Engagement Framework

Our framework outlines an engagement process for building ongoing, trust-based relationships with the public. We propose a user experience linking actions and emotions for Green Infrastructure projects. Our vision is to empower residents to advocate for future GI and stronger climate policies.

Vancouver

Reasonably Radical

A Climate Change Education Podcast is a new form of professional development for our increasingly uncertain world - one that is honest, urgent, hopeful, and above all, radical! This podcast will help all educators see themselves as climate change educators. Join us!

Metro Vancouver

Project Tenantable Tents

Homeless persons deserve a dignified and habitable living experience in their transition out of temporary living arrangements, such as tent cities. With COVID-19 prevention in mind, Project Tenantable Tents aims to provide basic living amenities to improve sanitation and habitability for the growing Strathcona Park Tent City, while the City of Vancouver works to house campers in more permanent accommodations.

Metro Vancouver

MyCityMyPark

MyCityMyPark is an engagement initiative aiming to address the gap between youth voices, and parks in Vancouver. Our goal is to support the Vancouver Plan by promoting equity in the City. We created a platform that inspires youth to voice their vision for parks. This is your City. They're your parks.

Vancouver

GI Smart

GI Smart is an app to help educate Vancouverites about Green Infrastructure sites throughout the city and engage them in volunteer activities through GI information, an interactive GI map, a reporting system for problems with GI sites, and a volunteer system for locals to help maintain GI sites.

Vancouver

FridgeShare: Community Fridges For People to Exchange Food For Free

FridgeShare exists to address food insecurity and food waste through mutual-aid. A FridgeShare is a community fridge for people to share excess food with those in need. People take what they need or leave what they can, while supporting collective solutions for food insecurity and food waste in our city.

Metro Vancouver

FoodWhere?

FoodWhere? centres on data from food assets for the Latin American community in Vancouver. We used an environmental scan to analyze online information. We found several information gaps and a lack of food assets which might intensify the food insecurity of this community, in Vancouver.

Vancouver

Exploring our Roles

Exploring our Roles is an online conversation club for newcomers to look at the topics of colonization, reconciliation, and systemic racism. In this conversation club, we emphasized that we all have a role and responsibility to play in taking meaningful action towards reconciliation.

Vancouver

Expanding Mobility: Equity in Active Transportation

Equity in active transportation means improving the quality of life of community members by increasing their opportunities to access life-enriching activities through high-quality routes and active transportation options. By using our suggested unbiased census and survey metrics, it’s possible to identity inequity and enact initiatives that can then be measured to ensure efficiency.

Vancouver

Community Kelp

This is a communication project that aims to interpret the positive economical and ecological effects that kelp aquaculture has locally. The way this is achieved is by exhibiting kelp gardens, creating educational panels and collaborating with other communities that share our goals to spark curiosity and action in the general public to find local creative methods to mitigate ocean acidification.

Metro Vancouver

A Fossil Fuel-Free Future

What would Vancouver look like without fossil-fueled vehicles? We came up with a fun and safe way to engage youth on the Vancouver Plan during COVID: an online design challenge. Four teams designed their vision for a fossil-fuel-free Vancouver in 2050 and presented their ideas to City staff.

Metro Vancouver

2013 LFAP: Local Food Action Plan Literature Review

Students from UBC present their literature review for the Vancouver Park Board and CityStudio Vancouver. The question we focused on was how should urban gardens be planned to decolonize and provide a safe space for Indigenous communities?

Designing for Difference

How Does the Public Understand ‘Best Before’ Dates?

Cultivate Inclusivity

Connecting employment agencies with employers to uplift individuals that face barriers to employment

Neighbourhood Clubhouse

Climate Influx

Sunset Solutions – Tree Planting, Care & Retention

Victoria-Fraserview Green Engagement Initiative

False Creek Water Quality

Food waste: Educate to mitigate

Shared Boundaries

Omniate

Fence³ (F³)

De-Reconstruction

Capra Tilapia

StudyHubble (Study, Connect, Socialize)

Restoration Plan for Everett Crowley Park

The Success of Pacific Herring Net Deployment in False Creek

Jericho Beach Gold Rush – Pursuit of the elusive forage fish

Expanding Leisure

Climate Emergency Dialogues

How We Move: Feedback from Vancouverites

7 Symbols of Granville

Guaranteed Opportunities? Toward an anti-colonial approach to policy analysis for poverty reduction

The New Commons

Boardwalk and the Beast: A Case Study in Assessing Park Health

Metro Vancouver

Soundscape for a Renewable City

A sound installation depicting sounds of a renewable city.

Vancouver

Engaging With Vancouver Millennials

Determining how the City of Vancouver can best engage with millennials in the city-wide planning process.

Vancouver + Globally

Plan Your Vote

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

Vancouver

Vancouver Underwater

City-wide Plan advertising campaign.

Charlson Bay Park

Charleson Bay Island

Restoring shoreline and promoting indigenous environmental education.

Vancouver

Drain Forest

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

Metro Vancouver

Tell-a-Friend 3

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

Metro Vancouver

Smarter Parking

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

Northeast False Creek

Building for Biodiversity

Enhancing Northeast False Creek’s intertidal biodiversity through shoreline design.

Metro Vancouver

I Wish Vancouver

A platform where youth can express what city issues matter to them.

Metro Vancouver

LAP – WHAT? HOW? WHY? ENJOY!

A non-digital marketing strategy to increase awareness and engagement of the Leisure Access Program.

CycLLIST

Reducing bike theft one cyclist at a time.

Vancouver Recreation Centres

Family Townhall

An engaging and inclusive method of participatory planning.

Pop-Up Around Vancouver

Building Festive Engagement

A way to increase youth engagement in city planning through festivals and public events.

Metro Vancouver

Addressing Food Waste at the Retail Level

An exploratory study about consumer interactions with produce displays and its effect on food waste.

Global

A Taste of Home

How intergenerational practices of food and culture preservation reduces food waste.

Mount Pleasant, Vancouver

Watson St. Whatever the Weather

A public space created for community connections year round.

Mount Pleasant

The Lounge

The Lounge is an alley activation project that aims to provide people of different personalities a safe space to relax, interact, and connect in a highly urbanized setting.

Renfrew-Collingwood, Vancouver

Equity in Leisure Accessibility

Expand options, market awareness and remove barriers to increase leisure access use and achieve equity in the widening gap between income and affordability.

Yaletown Roundhouse

A Simple Practice, Skip the Plastic

Research-based solutions for overcoming barriers to reusable bag usage.

Vancouver

Creating a Zero Waste Vancouver

Strategies for plastic bag reduction and waste diversion in community centres.

Vancouver

Stop! Look! Listen!

This project is a collaboration- and project-based approach to digital media production.

Metro Vancouver

Tell-a-Friend 2

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

Killarney Community Centre

Achieving Zero Waste: Testing the slogan ‘Choose to Reuse’

Testing the effectiveness of the slogan “Choose to Reuse” at Killarney Community Centre.

Vancouver

Project Turbocharged

Electrifying youth to drive change

Vancouver

It’s Inexcusable Be Reusable

Shifting consumer preferences for bringing a reusable drink container and helping them in their push to reduce the number of single-use items consumed by the city on a day to day basis.

Vancouver

Voting Tool

Open source voting tool to plan your vote ahead of time.

False Creek

False Creek Herring

Formal data collection and best management practices for increasing herring spawning in False Creek.

Vancouver

Be Smart with Sharps

Research and recommendations for a safe sharp disposal education campaign.

Vancouver

Salvaged Materials Market

Fostering a market for salvaged materials in Vancouver.

Vancouver

A Snapshot of Inclusivity

Looking at Public Space through the Lenses of Our Citizens.

Kitsilano

Discover Kitsilano Walking Tour

A walking tour showcasing neighborhood resilience to new-comers.

Anywhere

EcoPouch

An environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional food storage products.

Marpole

Orphaned Spaces: Marpole

Research and mapping of unused public spaces in the Marpole neighbourhood.

Across Canada

Reconciliation Calls

Calling non-indigenous students to Truth and Reconciliation action.

Vancouver

Rentability

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

Vancouver

Street Seats

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

Metro Vancouver

Macrame Salon

A social enterprise beauty salon designed to empower immigrant beauticians.

Burnaby Mountain

Ugilicious: No Waste, Great Taste

Raising awareness of food waste by using unsold produce to create nutritious meals.

Marine Gateway

A Home for Everyone: The Densifiers

Using mental mapping to create positive notions of high density living.

Downtown Vancouver

Public Spaces Documentary

A documentary project exploring Vancouver’s downtown public spaces

Vancouver

Raincity

Educating homeowners about disconnecting their downspout.

Metro Vancouver

Don’t Stop The Raindrop

Encouraging homeowners to participate in green infrastructure by disconnecting their downspouts.

Vancouver

Revisit the Couve

A social media campaign to combat negative attitudes towards transit in Vancouver.

Anywhere

EcoSmart App

A CO2e diet calculator and community meal sharing app.

Terminal Avenue Skytrain Station

The Living Pallet

Transforming the underbelly of Skytrain stations using vertical pallet gardens.

Anywhere

Cozy Crates

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

Vancouver

Zoned Out

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

Downtown Vancouver

Charge and Connect

Keeping young people connected to the world with free mobile charging stations.

Vancouver

Game of Shores

The board game that teaches youth about Vancouver's shoreline health.

Vancouver

Ten Different Things

Ten local artists provoke, prototype and test new visions of art and civic life in Vancouver.

Vancouver

Textile Recycling

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

Vancouver

Triple E’s

Exploring the role of students in a Zero Waste Ambassador program.

Vancouver

Choose to Reuse (Cool Cup Project)

Barriers and opportunities to reducing single-use cold cups in restaurants.

Vancouver City Hall

Vancouver Student Manifesto

A student-focused manifesto designed to impact the Vancouver City Plan.

Vancouver Bike Routes

Seniors Safely Cycling

Assessing bike routes for an assisted-cycling program.

Vancouver & Beyond

529 Garage Short Films

Short films in support of the 529 Garage bike recovery service.

Skytrain Stations

BlueBox

Unboxing the stigma around mental health.

Vancouver

Student Food Network

Partnering with food establishments to provide $5 student meals.

Vancouver & Beyond

The Night is Young

A toolkit for designing art-centric, nighttime events for youth.

Metro Vancouver

Tell-a-Friend

Research to support development of the Tell-a-Friend initiative.

Vancouver

Zero Paper Cups

A video promoting the use of reusable cups.

Harvest Community Foods

Bike ‘n Business

Helping to create bike-friendly businesses.

Vancouver

Informing Voters to Vote

Materials to encourage citizen participation in the 2018 municipal election.

Downtown Eastside

Mitigating Vancouver’s Urban Heat Island Effect

Designing physical interventions to keep things cool in the DTES.

Vancouver

Living Walls

Conceptualizing the implementation of ‘Living Walls’ in Vancouver.

Vancouver

Environmental Education at Community Centres

Understanding environmental education and programming offered at each community centre.

False Creek Shoreline

Rock’n Shorelines, Happy Seaweed

Assessing rockweed in False Creek to help restore natural urban ecosystems.

Vancouver

Communicating Ecological Footprint

Communicating ecological footprint information to diverse audiences.

Vancouver Bike Routes

Improving Urban Cycling

Collecting user feedback on safety and comfort of Vancouver's bike routes.

Vancouver

ThinkDisaster

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

Vancouver

The Coop

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

Vancouver

GigCity

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

Vancouver

Wellbe

Strengthening workplace communication and interactions that foster wellbeing.

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.

Branching Out

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

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.

Vancouver

Vancouver Voting Van

A modern take on increasing political knowledge and participation amongst low-income households.

Tower Beach Trail

Guided Mindfulness Walk

Increasing awareness about the benefits of natural settings for mental well-being.

Mount Pleasant

OURS Consignment Hub

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

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.

Vancouver

Rise Up!

Increasing Indigenous votership and political involvement in Vancouver.

Community Centres

Rewilding Vancouver

Understanding and promoting environmental education programming through community centres.

Dunbar

Road to Resilience

Engaging the Dunbar community in emergency preparedness.

Granville Entertainment District

The Open Washroom Project

Providing a framework for solving public urination in Downtown Vancouver.

Grandview-Woodland

Grandview-Woodlands Block Level Resiliency Toolkit

A people-based approach to resiliency and emergency preparedness.

Downtown Eastside (DTES)

312 Main Community Asset Mapping

Building the foundation to a resilient neighbourhood.

Vancouver

Put Waste in its Place

An initiative to reduce single-use items by encouraging restaurant patrons to bring reusable containers.

Vancouver Bike Routes

Motivation for Movement

An investigation into barriers and facilitators to youth cycling in Vancouver.

Kitsilano Shoreline

Birds, Barks & Boats

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

Vancouver

Mugshots for Sustainability

A social media campaign raising awareness of the negative impacts of single-use cups.

Vancouver

Do You Really Need That Steak?

Determining which form of advertising provokes greater engagement around the consumption of red meat.

BCIT Campus

Upcycled Design Project

Furniture designs developed entirely from upcycled source material.

Dunbar

I Heart Dunbar

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

Cambie Bridge

Patio Jams

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

Cambie Bridge

Connect Fort

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

Cambie Bridge

City Gone Wild

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

Cambie Bridge

ChalkTalks

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

Across Vancouver

Buddy Up!

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

Vancouver Area Parks

Location is Everything

Recycling in all City of Vancouver parks.

McAuley Park

Keys to the Streets

Bringing free, playable pianos to public spaces in Vancouver.

Commercial Drive

YIMBY

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

Grandview-Woodland

East Van Skill Share Fair

Connecting individuals and building a more self-reliant community.

Marpole

Lighter Footprint

Ambassador program that equips neighbours to collectively lower their ecological footprint.

Imagination Zone

Umbrella Taxi

Modelling friendly citizen behaviour and engaging Vancouverites in whimsical conversation.

Imagination Zone

Food Recovery Project

Revealing Vancouver’s food recovery resources.

Imagination Zone

StareChairs

Urban furniture activated with public art.

Imagination Zone

TeaTalk

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

Northeast False Creek

Imagination Zone

Five experiments in art and engagement in Northeast False Creek.

Mount Pleasant

Street Art

Fostering connections and reimagining public space through collaborative community art.

Grandview-Woodland

Britannia Food Share

Redirecting surplus food from local businesses to a youth meal program.

Everett Crowley Park

Outdoor Learning Project 2

Designing and building the infrastructure that supports outdoor learning in Everett Crowley Park.

Everett Crowley Park

Outdoor Learning Project 1

Encouraging and facilitating outdoor learning inspired by the Park Board's Rewilding Vancouver strategy.

Stanley Park

Learning in the Leaves

Pilot project bringing outdoor classrooms to the city.

The Lauren

Ask Lauren

Community concierge pilot project creating vertical communities in apartment buildings.

Creekside Park, Science World Plaza

placeLAB

An innovative experiment in placemaking.

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.

Vancouver

Urban Campfire

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

Kitsilano

Local Foodsteps

Signs in your community pointing you to local, sustainable food assets.

Locarno Beach

Campfire

Introducing shared public firepits on Vancouver beaches.

Cambie Bridge

Colouring Cambie

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

Vancouver Transit

Harassment on Transit

Exploring social sustainability and geographies of social inclusion in the city.

MacLean Park (Strathcona)

Deck the Dark

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

Jim Deva Plaza

Living at Bute

Possibilities for public space in Vancouver's West End.

North False Creek

iGo: Bike Network Wayfinding

Repairing gaps in Vancouver’s bicycle network to improve accessibility for cyclists in the city.

Woodwards & Science World

BikeLab: Bike Repair Stations

Bringing bike repair stations to the streets of Vancouver.

McAuley Park

Reimagine Your Park

Engaging and activating orphaned greenspaces in Vancouver.

Vancouver

Van BirdCity

Research into a bird program for Vancouver.

Grandview-Woodland

Orphaned Spaces

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

1800 Spyglass Place

The Long Table

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

Downtown Vancouver

Compost Collective

Food waste diversion pilot projects in Vancouver’s multi-family buildings.

East Vancouver

The Stoop

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

SFU Campus

Ugly Apples

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

Downtown East Side (DTES)

Choy-On-The-Go

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

Renfrew Community Park

Sam the Salmon’s Ravine Quest

A fun, place-based, experiential learning resource in the form of a quest.

Arbutus Corridor

BIOPOLIS: The Card Game

An exciting card game centered around biodiversity and fun!

Imagination Zone

IllumiLane

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