Sea2City Design Challenge was organized around three rounds of advisory sessions and workshops with groups established for the project. Accompanying the 3 rounds were public learning events and other activities.
The third and final round of public engagement included a one-day, inter-team design charrette for a fifth Sea2City challenge site for teams to apply lessons learned through the challenge process.
Timeline
Round 1 Getting started
Sept - Oct 2021
Round 2 Early ideas
March - April 2022
Round 3 Refine ideas
June - July 2022
Select teams
Team orientations
Public events
Early concepts - what can be done?
Community and technical review
Public events
Refine concepts - what have we learned?
Community and technical review
Public events
Sea2City Design Charrette - putting learning into action
Design teams
At each step of the process, the two participating design teams will work closely with our project team and two other advisory groups.
Note A youth program, the Youth Adaptation Lab, was delivered in partnership with CityHive, a youth-led and youth-focused civic engagement organization. The Youth Adaptation Lab ran from September 2021 to July 2022.
A group of Vancouver- based experts from private firms, non-governmental organizations, and UBC with specific local experience and skills in coastal adaptation and landscape design, environmental planning, and geotechnical engineering.
The group will work together with representatives from major asset operators in False Creek like Metro Vancouver Regional District, BC Hydro, and Fortis to serve as advisors and peer reviewers of the work produced by design teams.
Collectively, the group is intended to provide technical advice and local knowledge and augment any engineering experience on the design teams, but also to help continue building local capacity and networks.
A group of residents and business owners representing a broad range of community perspectives and experiences and a shared interest in coastal adaptation in False Creek.
The group will:
Provide a forum for feedback, guidance, and advice to design teams at key milestones during Sea2City
Act as a sounding board for teams to share and discuss ideas and design concepts
Provide a sense of the broader community’s potential interests and concerns around the coastal adaptation concepts
Help ensure that the community values identified in the 2020/2021 False Creek Coastal Adaptation Plan are reflected in the design teams’ work
The Youth Adaptation Lab is a capacity-building and experiential learning program for youth ages 18-30 who hold deep connections with False Creek.
Fourteen youth will work with us and the Sea2City design teams to help with planning the future of coastal adaptation planning. The group will:
Gain confidence, knowledge, skills, and capacity to engage with communities and neighbours on climate and adaptation issues
Review the design teams’ work and provide feedback
Create 3 key projects to guide coastal adaptation planning (including a youth manifesto, hosting a community engagement event, and creating a communications toolkit)
Participating teams will be guided by the design principles developed through the 2020 False Creek Coastal Adaptation Plan, while evaluation of the concept designs will be directed by shared community values that were identified in the same project.
Sea2City will also include additional guidance and input from xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations on whose unceded, ancestral, traditional homelands Vancouver and False Creek is located.
