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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

This project helped the City of Vancouver gain an understanding of what a “walkable community” means from the perspective of Millennials ages 20-34, and identified key aspects of such communities that should be incorporated into its ‘Vancouver Plan’. By 2030, The City of Vancouver hopes 90% of people are living within an easy walk and roll of their daily needs.

Metro Vancouver

VanCityNeeds

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.

Vancouver

Shield Your Community

To develop an integrated marketing campaign for 529 Garage that builds brand awareness and recognition. Our task was to create an overall theme, design creative campaign elements and develop media recommendations.

Vancouver

Roots to Resilience: A Community Engagement Framework

Our framework outlines an engagement process for building ongoing, trust-based relationships with the public. We propose a user experience linking actions and emotions for Green Infrastructure projects. Our vision is to empower residents to advocate for future GI and stronger climate policies.

Vancouver

Reasonably Radical

A Climate Change Education Podcast is a new form of professional development for our increasingly uncertain world - one that is honest, urgent, hopeful, and above all, radical! This podcast will help all educators see themselves as climate change educators. Join us!

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.

Cultivate Inclusivity

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

Climate Influx

Sunset Solutions – Tree Planting, Care & Retention

False Creek Water Quality

StudyHubble (Study, Connect, Socialize)

Expanding Leisure

Vancouver

Drain Forest

Drain Forest: a structure to decrease leaf clogging of Vancouver drains.

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.

Global

A Taste of Home

How intergenerational practices of food and culture preservation reduces food waste.

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.