Feeling Disconnected?
Life in the urban context is often described as lacking a sense of community; it’s not uncommon for people who live in cities to feel disconnected from the people who live right next door. City...
View ArticleDo You Make Time to Stop & Smell the Roses?
At times the pace of technology, and the pace at which it changes our world can be dizzying; we take for granted or miss the short lived graduations of change we observe on a daily basis. But artists,...
View ArticleYork Theatre on Cover of Georgia Straight
After 25 years of advocacy, to the great relief of Tom Durrie and other arts activists, the York Theatre is finally saved from the threat of demolition. The Georgia Straight covers the story as an Arts...
View ArticlePop-portunity for culture building
As empty spaces in the urban context become more rare and highly valued, any leftover, awkward, and in-between spaces – Diamonds in the Rough – are being woven back into the larger urban fabric in a...
View ArticleIn Search of the Perfect Chair
Can we apply genetic engineering to inanimate objects? Designer Jan Habraken and his team at Formnation have developed an innovative application of genetics to product design. Utilizing the same...
View ArticleWill You “Turn Off to Turn On” for Earth Hour?
Earth Hour is approaching, with millions of participants preparing to power down in support of a more sustainable future. Since the 2007 inaugural Earth Hour in Sydney Australia, the annual event has...
View ArticleEthnic Enclaves
Canada’s cities are diverse places thanks in large part to immigrants that have settled here and built homes, businesses and communities. Their impact can be measured not only in economic growth and...
View ArticleLearning from the Ephemeral City
Summer is upon us and we’re anticipating the many large spectacles that temporarily enliven Vancouver and bring us together in warmer months to experience performances, fireworks, parades, art...
View ArticleWoodward’s Welcomes New Arts Groups
Four not-for-profit arts organizations will be moving into the city-owned cultural amenity space in the Woodward’s building, located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. City Council unanimously...
View ArticleFashion-Forward Technology
As it’s October 31st, a day synonymous in North America with creative dressing, it seemed fitting to look at wearable innovations. This year, the makers of wearable technology have turned their sights...
View ArticleRecycled Amusement
Ugandan eco-artist Ruganzu Bruno Tusingwire doesn’t play around when it comes to play. The winner of TED’s first City 2.0 Award for 2012, a prize designed to encourage innovation in cities, is using...
View ArticleLearn from the Poet Laureate
Evelyn Lau Offers Free Consultation to Poets Are you an emerging poet looking for some advice from a seasoned pro? Evelyn Lau, Vancouver’s third Poet Laureate, will be hosting one-to-one manuscript...
View ArticleCharles Eames: Design Pioneer
“If you examine this furniture, you will find sincerity, honesty, conviction, affection, imagination, and humor. You will not grasp how this furniture came into being or what it really means unless you...
View ArticleBillboard-Free City
In 2006, Gilberto Kassab, mayor of São Paulo, Brazil, passed the “Clean City Law.” Citing growing concerns about rampant pollution in his city, Kassab decided enough was enough. But this was no...
View ArticleBoosting Literacy Awareness
Kafka in Transit Can Franz Kafka’s short story “The Bridge” turn subway riders in Mexico City into avid readers? That’s the hope of a new literacy awareness campaign from Librerías Gandhi, one of...
View ArticleUrban Myth
Fiction’s Most Fascinating Cities Some of the most fantastic places only exist within the pages of books, the frames of films, the panels of comics, even the lyrics of songs. You can’t buy a plane...
View ArticleGenerosity-Based Publishing
Concord Free Press Gives Their Books Away “Free their books and their minds will follow,” that’s the motto of small publishing house Concord Free Press and it’s exactly what they do: give books away...
View ArticleResort City?
In our week in Rome, we had lunch with a friend of a friend, an Italian who works in government. He’s not originally from Rome, but has been posted there for the past two years. His assessment of Rome:...
View ArticleWork Ethics in a Developing British Columbia
Inventing the Lazy Indian One of the reasons that Aboriginals were considered to be shirkers is that they did not have to put up with low wages and harsh working conditions. They had alternative, more...
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