• June 15: RAIC lecture by Shigeru Ban
• June 17: Super Saturday
• June 19-23: UN World Urban Forum
• June 25 -July 1: Global Studio Design Workshop
• July 3: Global Studio Future Directions Forum

The studio will be lead by Canadian and international planning, architecture and landscape architecture academics and professionals in collaboration with diverse Vancouver communities. Taking one of the Vancouver most significant streets or corridors students will experience the range of environments  the ‘most liveable city in the world’ has to offer – from rich to poor, low to high density, and provide a reading of these varied neighbourhoods.  Small international, interdisciplinary teams will focus on different parts of the corridor, and work with local communities to develop speculations but also ideas for action. Ideas will be brought back to a single forum where Global Studio participants , Friends of Global Studio and community  members willl debate the ideas and the process.

A key aspect of this hands-on studio will be to build on lessons learned from Supersaturday and the WUF, to learn from the city of  Vancouver and its people, and for GS to make a contribution to urban debates. This studio also aims  to develop innovative, replicable collaborative and participatory methods of reading/interpreting and proposing ideas.  The studio will be held in UBC’s downtown studio on Carrall St.

Special Pre Global Studio events
June 17: Super Saturday presentation
UN World Urban Forum Global Studio networking session, date tba
June 14-25: Exhibition pps:r (people, places, situations, response)

Optional events

• June 14-16: Planners for Tomorrow (recommended for planning students)
• June 14-17: RAIC Festival of Architecture ‘Habitat Re-Loaded’
• June 14-17: Landscape Architecture Conference, “Shifting Ground”
• June 16-18: World Youth Forum
• June 17-20: World Planning Congress, “Sustainable Urbanisation: Turning Ideas into Action”