What happens when we bring together Business and Nursing students at City Hall? The answer is better solutions to complex city challenges. This spring CityStudio piloted a new kind of collaboration together with BCIT, the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Coastal Health. (more…)
Nursing and business students team up to tackle needles in public spaces
CityStudio Vancouver brings collaborative city-building into the classroom by partnering with courses on campuses around the city. This is a snapshot of one of the collaborations taking place this term. (more…)
Project Spotlight: Keeping things cool in the DTES
Langara design students took on a hot topic in Vancouver this summer as part of their Advanced Design Studio: Design Collaboration class (FINA 2195) led by instructor Philip Robbins. (more…)
Choose Your Own Adventure: Misha and Marga on their MEd Experience
The first MEd in Educational Studies – Education for Sustainability cohort program offered by the UBC Faculty of Education is about to wrap up. The part-time program is unique in that it engages participants from diverse backgrounds in real-world projects enmeshed in questions of learning and scholarship. The program is a partnership...
3 Ways CityStudio Students Bring Urban Innovation to Vancouver
Getting students out of the classroom and into the city is just the beginning of what we do at CityStudio Vancouver. (more…)
Students, Park Board Create Buzz at Vancouver Pop-Up Park
Alex Man-Bourdon, project coordinator for the Fifth and Pine pop-up park, shares his experience working with students through CityStudio to advance the City’s strategies and draw its tiniest residents back to the neighbourhood. (more…)
Studio Stories: “My First Week at CityStudio”
(Originally posted on UBC student, Iva Jankovic’s blog.) You know it’s not regular school when the first day of class starts with a potluck. (more…)
Ten Different Things
We are delighted to be collaborating with the City of Vancouver Public Art Program and Living Labs at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on a unique new project in Vancouver. (more…)
SFU Semester Outside: Exploring Vancouver’s Urban Ecology
Originally posted as a SFU Sustainability news story) hile we are lucky enough to live in one of the greenest cities in the world, it is easy to take our urban ecology for granted. Seeking to overcome this, SFU’s Semester Outside in the City, a partnership between SFU’s Semester in...
Collaboration with VIVA Vancouver
CityStudio's Long Table project was featured in VIVA Vancouver's Summer Program. (more…)