After a great night of jamming, collaboration and brainstorming here are the amazing ideas from each of the groups.
A big thank you to City of Vancouver Staff members for coming out and participating in our jam!
Here's the low-down from each group:
GROUP 1
Community perch (BIRDS!)
THEME
Hammocks Everywhere!
JINGLE
Look up in the sky!
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's the Community Perch!
GOAL
Educate about birds
Provide bird habitat
Make space flexible
Collect rain water and reuse
Compost materials underground and use methane for cooking and heat for buildings
BUSINESS PLAN/INCENTIVES
Sponsorship for building materials and hammocks
Reuse materials as much as possible
Partner with local businesses (bookstores and cafes)
Global and local tourism
Make it for all ages
GREENEST CITY GOALS
1) Access to Nature
2) Green Jobs
3) Clean Air
4) Local Food
5) Clean Water
GROUP 2
A Bee City
THEME
Bees + Trees + Urban Education + tourism
GOAL
Turn Vancouver’s abandoned spaces into a network of bee education hubs as well as the world’s finest honey tasting tour!
Unique native vegetation at each hub will produce unique tasting honey
10 education hubs focusing on the 10 Greenest City goals through a “bee lens”.
Learn to grown and harvest native plants, as well as be a bee keeper and how urban pedagogy contributes to the Greenest City Goals.
BUSINESS PLAN/INCENTIVES
Partnerships with School Board for experiential learning opportunities as they relate to the Greenest City Goals
Audio tours at each hub to describe the natural processes at work
Spaces serve as learning environments and urban parks
GREENEST CITY GOALS
1. Local Food
2. Access to Nature
GROUP 3
Sound Garden
THEME
Combining a public space with the sanctuary of a private space
A public park designed as a pathway that slowly winds into the ground and provides users with an auditory experience rich in textures of sound, sight, and smell. Some textures amplify sound; some will cancel the sound out to create a rich experience of being. The pathway with vary in width to force single file, as well as allow for spaces to converse, converging into a centric space that can be completely silent, or adapt as a meeting place for conversation as need requires.
GOAL
An acoustic journey through space
GREENEST CITY GOALS
1. Access to Nature
2. Clean Air
3. Clean Water
GROUP 4
Greentops
THEME
Interactive parks in greenhouses
GOAL
Greenhouse feeds the building and community
BUSINESS PLAN/INCENTIVES
Grow food, sell food, market food, feed community
GREENEST CITY GOALS
1. Local Food
2. Access to Nature
GROUP 5
Gatheround
THEME
Long tables, bike repair stations, and traffic circles
GOAL
Unload the streets, turn underutilized spaces into a social gathering space and repair pit stop for bikes. Includes an oven, long tables, tables around the traffic circles, encourage citizens to use active transportation.
BUSINESS PLAN/INCENTIVES
1. Educational components
2. Stores in the area could benefit if people choose to utilize the oven
3. Increase in sales of bikes
GREENEST CITY GOALS
1. Meets the access to nature goals
2. Reduces ecological footprint + transportation
3. Increase community engagement and encourages a sense of ownership amongst those who utilize the space.
GROUP 6
Urabanplay
THEME
Grown-up playgrounds, rideable art & Musical art
GOAL
Obstacle course, everything makes a sound, bike paths & routes (that have bridges & fun paths), slack lines, multi level dangerous playground (steep slides, climbing wall), life sized chess, ping pong tables, rideable art- made of recycled materials, dance square- for dance parties, diversity- fun for everyone (music, fitness, sitting, dancing, etc)
BUSINESS PLAN/INCENTIVES
Corporate sponsorship for each park
GREENEST CITY GOALS
1. Access to Nature
Be sure to check out the rest of the wonderful photos taken by Langara photo student Shawna Wajzer here
