UBC

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.

Datadigm

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Datadigm aims to revolutionize how we engage with the public by providing a...

Water in Vancouver StoryMap

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Water in Vancouver is an interactive website that allows users to learn about...

UpMove

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UpMove identifies ways in which the Vancouver Board of Parks & Recreation can...

Preserving Vancouver’s Intertidal Zone

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We worked to produce a body of data that begins the task of...

Combatting Heat Using Public Art

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Through the use of curated public art installations, this project aims to reduce...

The Cooling Car

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The Cooling Car project is a mobile heat response unit that seeks to...

Herring Heroes

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Our project monitors the spawning of Pacific Herring at False Creek. Our group...

Life in False Creek: Herring Spawning 2022

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We built, deployed, and monitored herring nets while sampling water conditions in False...

Green Revitalization in Vancouver’s Chinatown

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This project aims to highlight the sensitive balance between urban greening and green...

Restoring Musqueam Watershed

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An exploration of landscape design strategies through a portion of the Musqueam Watershed,...

Informobility

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How would you vote on HUBBUB if you didn’t have sufficient access to...

Equitable Green Interventions for False Creek South

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South False Creek put Vancouver on the map for its innovative green planning,...

Navigate Broadway

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The temporary bus stops created to accommodate the construction of the Broadway Subway...

Green Rainwater Infrastructure in the Sunset Community

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Our project is to understand residents' attitudes towards the green rainwater infrastructure (GRI)...

Wheel Change Makers

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A youth-led biking community that reduces barriers to bike resources and information through...

The Accessibility Toolkit

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We developed a framework/toolkit to integrate accessibility and inclusion into the internal culture...

Clean Cooking with Electricity

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Burning gas for cooking is not only a threat to climate action but...

529 Garage: A comprehensive marketing strategy

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529 Garage facilitates a community watch service for bike owners. 529 Garage is...

Columbia Market Gardens

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A commemorative and pedagogical landscape design that integrates Alberta Street's proposed stormwater management...

Growing Green in Grandview-Woodland

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A series of proposed core interventions to increase canopy cover on private and...

Resaturated

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A proposed blueway corridor through a portion of the Norquay Village community, where...

Sense in Cents

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To support events that build a sense of community, promote diversity, enhance the...

The Punjabi Market Community Zine

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A zine showcasing stories of joy, resiliency, and everyday life in the Punjabi...

Accounting for Nature

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A primer that directs the user on how to value the tangible and...

COVID-19 in Vancouver: Who’s Hurting?

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A research project on the opportunities of expanding the Curb Side Patio Permit...

Stories of Victoria-Fraserview

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A visual storytelling project that aims to amplify Victoria-Fraserview residents’ lived experiences through...

Roots to Resilience: A Community Engagement Framework

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Our framework outlines an engagement process for building ongoing, trust-based relationships with the...

Reasonably Radical

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A Climate Change Education Podcast is a new form of professional development for...

Project Tenantable Tents

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Homeless persons deserve a dignified and habitable living experience in their transition out...

FridgeShare: Community Fridges For People to Exchange Food For Free

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FridgeShare exists to address food insecurity and food waste through mutual-aid. A FridgeShare...

FoodWhere?

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FoodWhere? centres on data from food assets for the Latin American community in...

Exploring our Roles

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Exploring our Roles is an online conversation club for newcomers to look at...

2013 LFAP: Local Food Action Plan Literature Review

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Students from UBC present their literature review for the Vancouver Park Board and...

How Does the Public Understand ‘Best Before’ Dates?

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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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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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Smarter Parking

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

Building for Biodiversity

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

LAP – WHAT? HOW? WHY? ENJOY!

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

Watson St. Whatever the Weather

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A public space created for community connections year round.

Equity in Leisure Accessibility

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Expand options, market awareness and remove barriers to increase leisure access use and...

A Simple Practice, Skip the Plastic

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

Creating a Zero Waste Vancouver

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

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

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

It’s Inexcusable Be Reusable

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Shifting consumer preferences for bringing a reusable drink container and helping them in...

False Creek Herring

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

Choose to Reuse (Cool Cup Project)

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

Zero Paper Cups

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A video promoting the use of reusable cups.

Environmental Education at Community Centres

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Understanding environmental education and programming offered at each community centre.

Rock’n Shorelines, Happy Seaweed

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

Improving Urban Cycling

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

Branching Out

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Citizen science program enlisting the help of grade three students to collect data...

Rewild Vancouver

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A wilderness recovery strategy that aims to educate and empower Vancouver’s residents to...

Guided Mindfulness Walk

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

Paths to Sustainability in the Iranian Community

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An investigation of the challenges and possibilities for including the Iranian community in...

Rewilding Vancouver

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Understanding and promoting environmental education programming through community centres.

Put Waste in its Place

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

Motivation for Movement

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

Birds, Barks & Boats

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

Mugshots for Sustainability

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

Do You Really Need That Steak?

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

Patio Jams

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

Connect Fort

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A large scale blanket fort that is a space for all ages to...

City Gone Wild

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

ChalkTalks

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

Buddy Up!

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

East Van Skill Share Fair

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Connecting individuals and building a more self-reliant community.

Lighter Footprint

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

Umbrella Taxi

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Modelling friendly citizen behaviour and engaging Vancouverites in whimsical conversation.

Food Recovery Project

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Revealing Vancouver’s food recovery resources.

Imagination Zone

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Five experiments in art and engagement in Northeast False Creek.

Street Art

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Fostering connections and reimagining public space through collaborative community art.

Ask Lauren

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Community concierge pilot project creating vertical communities in apartment buildings.

placeLAB

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An innovative experiment in placemaking.

Urban Campfire

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

BikeLab: Bike Repair Stations

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Bringing bike repair stations to the streets of Vancouver.

Reimagine Your Park

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Engaging and activating orphaned greenspaces in Vancouver.