Earthmakers Art Project

With the Camosun Bog Restoration Group, I will be engaging the Killarney Community to envision the ghost of a bog that once thrived in this neighbourhood.   Artist Pat Beacon, organizer of Earthmakers,  will then lead a community art project where participants create prints for a community mural.  For details on this free event,  click on the picture below:

Plan-It Earth, planned by youth for youth

200 people were in attendance at Plan -it Earth 2011 on April 15th.  This event enabled 120 youth to draw, write and describe their sustainable region.  Planned by a core group of five dedicated youth and an action team of about 30 students, all from Churchill, Prince of Wales, St. Pats and Kitsilano Secondaries. Participants came from throughout Vancouver, and we warmly welcomed the presence of Windermere Secondary and Magee Secondary youth leadership groups. Students from David Lloyd George Elementary attended the Children's program.  Plan-it earth was a collaboration of Vancouver youth with a passion for the environment.  This event was hosted once again by Prince of Wales Secondary.  Thanks  PW admin team!

We are very grateful for support from Bruce Ford and Vanessa Lee (Metro Vancouver); from Amanda Mitchell (the City of Vancouver); from Kevin Millsip, (sustainability coordinator, VSB)  and Stanley King from the Co-Design Group who donated facilitation services.  We accepted funding, with thanks from  Architecture Canada: The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Vancouver Foundation Youth Philanthropy Council, and the Vancouver School Board through Kevin Millsip's project eco-logo contest.

Tesicca, youth co-design artist, plan-it earth core team

day in the life of a sustainable region

day in the life graffiti wall

Stanley King, The Co-Design Group, and Architecture Canada (RAIC) representative

Project BUG Digital Story

Grandview Woodland Food Connection put together a draft slideshow on Project BUG part 1 .  Stanley narrated this, summarizing the co-design process in a nutshell.  We are privileged to be a part of this process which is a collaboration between GWFC, UBC SCARP students and Co-Design. The purpose is to design a food garden and to demonstrate a participitory design process.

Project BUG

Grandview Woodland Food Connection asked Stanley and Susan to help facilitate a youth program  in Vancouver.  Using some of the techniques described in the Youth Manual,  students shared their ideas for how they wish to experience a community garden on school grounds.  Here is the flickr set of photos  as well as the follow-up session here and, later a build party for the new student garden

Stanley is facilitating a drawing with youth participants

Susan invites participants to create a city on the wall

participants create a city out of wilderness

Desired personal experience and perceptions noted on this drawing

Day in the Life of the Garden, a graffiti wall.

Susan draws youth harvesting mushrooms on a cob house, at the direction of the participants

Drew Ferrari facilitating a collaborative design dialogue.  This sequence of drawings took less than an hour. activities and features are dictated precisely by participants.  

the collaborative drawing is now complete and features are numbered for voting