VISION


CityStudio Vancouver aims to be an energetic hub and center for sustainability education by creating the world's most innovative inter-institutional campus/city collaboration for learning and implementation of urban sustainability strategies.

The goal of CityStudio Vancouver is to directly involve students, professors and universities in the implementation of Vancouver's Greenest City 2020 goals.

The purpose is to address the wide gap that exists between our incredible success at education compared to our poor record on environmental progress in Canada.  
 

The bottom line is that everyone needs to be working on this, and universities need to lead the way.


We will bring students, faculty, experts and City staff together for learning and action on long-term real-world sustainability projects in Vancouver.




Cities around the world will spend trillions of dollars in the next decades in response to the complex demands of population, energy, resources and climate change.  Virtually no city is on target to meet these challenges, but many are setting ambitious green goals and Vancouver is among them, striving to become a global sustainability center by 2020.

The City Studio Vancouver project aims to contribute to this goal. This is a collaboration between our City Hall and a coordinated network professors, students and courses from 6 of our universities and colleges; we are joining the world-wide movement about how we live in our cities, and how our cities live in the world. 

The project aims to establish a unique, innovative inter-institutional and collaborative relationship between the six post-secondary institutions and the City of Vancouver, emphasizing sustainability leadership, social enterprise, education of new change managers and the development of green business.

In just the next year alone, the City Studio projects will contribute over 25,000 student hours of focused work implementing Vancouver's sustainability strategies, and over the next 10 years, as we exchange learning between cities, we aim to accelerate sustainability with a significant mobilization of learning and action.

This program will help make Vancouver a world leader by focusing on four interconnected dimensions of education for urban sustainability:

1. Innovative inter-institutional and collaborative partnerships
2. Community engagement and dialogue   
3. Learning how to live on one planet; implementation of strategies
4. Transferability and learning exchange between campuses and cities


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