Our Projects | CityStudio Vancouver

Designing for Difference

How Does the Public Understand ‘Best Before’ Dates?

Cultivate Inclusivity

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.