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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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A Volunteer Opportunity for Youth to Help Alleviate Loneliness among Older Adults
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This project aims to address the digital divide through the perspectives of older adults.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Connecting employment agencies with employers to uplift individuals that face barriers to employment
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A sound installation depicting sounds of a renewable city.
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An engaging and inclusive method of participatory planning.
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A way to increase youth engagement in city planning through festivals and public events.
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An exploratory study about consumer interactions with produce displays and its effect on food waste.
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How intergenerational practices of food and culture preservation reduces food waste.
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Looking at Public Space through the Lenses of Our Citizens.
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Calling non-indigenous students to Truth and Reconciliation action.
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An app supporting renters through the rental journey to build resiliency.
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An affordable parklet template for local businesses to foster community connections.
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A social enterprise beauty salon designed to empower immigrant beauticians.
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Raising awareness of food waste by using unsold produce to create nutritious meals.
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To create community agency in placemaking by providing a toolkit for creating free cozy spaces.
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Keeping young people connected to the world with free mobile charging stations.
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Ten local artists provoke, prototype and test new visions of art and civic life in Vancouver.
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A student-focused manifesto designed to impact the Vancouver City Plan.
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Partnering with food establishments to provide $5 student meals.
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A toolkit for designing art-centric, nighttime events for youth.
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Materials to encourage citizen participation in the 2018 municipal election.
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Communicating ecological footprint information to diverse audiences.
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A service that provides local businesses with personalized continuity plans to recover from a disaster faster.
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A modern take on increasing political knowledge and participation amongst low-income households.
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An interactive music space for people to connect and feel uplifted.
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A large scale blanket fort that is a space for all ages to meet, connect and play.
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An educational installation to show the potential of underutilized urban spaces to enhance biodiversity.
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Bringing art and engagement to an underutilized space in the form of public chalkboards.
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Bringing free, playable pianos to public spaces in Vancouver.
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Connecting individuals and building a more self-reliant community.
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Ambassador program that equips neighbours to collectively lower their ecological footprint.
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Modelling friendly citizen behaviour and engaging Vancouverites in whimsical conversation.
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Five experiments in art and engagement in Northeast False Creek.
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Fostering connections and reimagining public space through collaborative community art.
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Redirecting surplus food from local businesses to a youth meal program.
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Encouraging and facilitating outdoor learning inspired by the Park Board's Rewilding Vancouver strategy.
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Community concierge pilot project creating vertical communities in apartment buildings.
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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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Signs in your community pointing you to local, sustainable food assets.
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Colouring Cambie aims to create temporary chalk-painted pedestrian walkways that are interactive and engaging.
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Exploring social sustainability and geographies of social inclusion in the city.
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Improving community safety and encouraging interactive play by illuminating Vancouver’s parks during the dark winter evenings.
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Repairing gaps in Vancouver’s bicycle network to improve accessibility for cyclists in the city.
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Bringing bike repair stations to the streets of Vancouver.
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Engaging and activating orphaned greenspaces in Vancouver.
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Research and mapping of unused public land in the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood.
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Ugly Apples is a local, handmade and accessible solution to the problem of food waste.
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Choy-On-The-Go provides fresh affordable produce to Chinese seniors in the DTES.
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A fun, place-based, experiential learning resource in the form of a quest.
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An exciting card game centered around biodiversity and fun!
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An interactive light up bike and walk way that integrates art into active transportation.
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