Fall 2016: Semester at CityStudio

Semester at CityStudio brings together bright, innovative students from diverse backgrounds, disciplines and universities to collaborate with The City of Vancouver on demonstration projects. CityStudio is an immersive, team learning environment combining interdisciplinary skills with the complexity of collaborating within a group setting. The course combines dialogue-archive and design elements, and requires students to engage with communities, research existing urban interventions and design projects to improve the world around them.

By focusing on current issues that matter in Vancouver, students have an opportunity to develop innovative solutions that assist The City of Vancouver in reaching its goals. Students cultivate the skills necessary to conduct student led dialogue-archives, public presentations, and to engage in multi-stakeholder processes with policy makers and City of Vancouver staff. The course offers field experiences, on-the-ground training, leadership development, group process, and urban sustainability project management skills.

INSTRUCTORS

Janet Moore is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of CityStudio and Director and Associate Professor of Semester in Dialogue.

Duane Elverum is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of CityStudio.

Adrian Sinclair is the Director of Engagement and Co-Founder of Transformation Projects. His specialty: finding ways to get audacious ideas off the ground that encourage folks to connect in public spaces. Adrian is the Vice-President of the BC Mobile Sauna Society, and Co-Founder of the Freestyle Focus Group. Adrian can usually be found at the centre of thoughtful, engaging and dynamic events in BC. During his tenure at Transformation Projects, he has had the chance to co-develop what he calls a “stakeholder-fist approach” to event design with clients like the Museum of Vancouver, Simon Fraser University, Rio-Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival, Hootsuite Media, BC Civil Liberties, City of Vancouver and Bass Coast Festival. He teaches Gong Fu Cha (Chinese Tea Ceremony) classes at Sun Yat Sen Chinese Traditional Garden, and has led a weekly Freestyle Rap Drop-in for over 5 years. He is currently helping launch Vancouver’s first Mural Festival in partnership with the COV, MPBIA and Create Vancouver. Adrian completed his MA in Philosophy at The University of Western.