Equity & Inclusion Archives | CityStudio Vancouver

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

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.

Metro Vancouver

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.

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

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.

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?

Cultivate Inclusivity

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

Neighbourhood Clubhouse

Sunset Solutions – Tree Planting, Care & Retention

De-Reconstruction

StudyHubble (Study, Connect, Socialize)

Expanding Leisure

7 Symbols of Granville

Vancouver

Engaging With Vancouver Millennials

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

Vancouver

Vancouver Underwater

City-wide Plan advertising campaign.

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

LAP – WHAT? HOW? WHY? ENJOY!

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

Vancouver Recreation Centres

Family Townhall

An engaging and inclusive method of participatory planning.

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.