About The Event

Date & Time:

Friday, March 16, 2018 (8am to 7pm)

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Location:

AMS Student Nest -University of British Columbia
6133 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1

*The Nest is located on traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people.

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Cost:

Early Registration:

General: $105 (includes tax)

Student $45 (includes tax)

Day Of Registration:

General: $115 (includes tax)

Student $55 (includes tax)

*Please Bring Exact Cash if purchasing the day of event*

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Transit & Parking:

UBC Point-Grey campus is easily accessible through transit (bus routes: 4,14,25,41,44,49,84,99). Also, there are numerous parkades and meter parking on the UBC campus. Click here to see the hourly parking rates and popular metered parking locations at UBC.

 

 

8:00 - 8:30	Breakfast and Registration	12:30 - 1:15	Lunch
8:30 - 9:00	Opening Address	1:25 - 2:35	Session 2
9:00 - 9:50	Keynote 1	2:45 - 3:35	Keynote 3
10:05 - 11:15	Session 1	3:55 - 5:05	Session 3
11:35 - 12:25	Keynote 2	5:15 - 7:00	Closing Address and Reception

 

 

Throughout the event, participants will have the opportunity to explore topics and issues of their choice. Each break-out session has several panel speakers that will explore a range of topics.

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New Directions in Affordable Housing

Many people and families are struggling to afford to live in Vancouver. While responses to the housing affordability crisis are often focused on our most at risk populations, the reality is that even with a stable income, the high cost of housing is one of the primary reasons people are leaving the city. This panel will discuss potential long-term solutions for affordable housing, such as co-housing, community land trusts, non-profit development and policy interventions. These so-called “third sector”, “community housing”, or “semi-market” options will require unprecedented private partnerships, involving governments, social equity investors, private developers and non-profit organizations.

Panelists

Yuri Artibise; Executive Director, Vancouver City Planning Commission; Board Member, Cooperative Housing Federation of BC

Tiffany Duzita; Director, Community Land Trust

Robert Brown; President, Catalyst Community Development Society

Kira Gerwing; Manager, Community Investment

Lance Jakubec; Innovation Fund Consultant

Larry Beasley; Founding Principal of Beasley and Associates, Planning Inc.; Professor of Planning at UBC; Former Director of Planning for City of Vancouver

 

 

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City Cycling: Exploring Issues of Equity in Transportation

This panel examines the critical issue of equity in city cycling by bringing together a diverse group of PhD students, faculty, and members from Vancouver cycling advocacy groups. Drawing from each panelists specific area of research or knowledge ascertained in practice, the purpose of this panel is to bring to light notions of equity in transportation. Our panelists will discuss questions such as: “Why do we advocate for city cycling?”, “What power relations are present in planning for city cycling?”, “How can city cycling be more accessible to all citizens?”, and “What gaps are present within city cycling literature and practice?”.

Panelists

Rebecca Mayers; PhD Candidate, UBC SCARP

Melissa Bruntlett; Modacity

Sunny Nestler; UBC Alma Mater Society Bike Co-op

Nathan McNeil; Portland State University Centre for Urban Studies

 

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The First Schools of Planning: Indigenous Urban Planning and Reconciliation in Cities

Pre-contact, Indigenous peoples in Canada had their own methods and tools for planning and implementing governance structures within their communities. Due to colonization, Indigenous peoples were forced to adopt Western styles of planning, such as the reserve system and band council structures. As they do not incorporate traditional knowledge and cultural identity, non-Indigenous planning models are not completely beneficial to Indigenous community development. With reconciliation, the introduction of Indigenous ways of knowing and doing are becoming more vital and are being incorporated into Indigenous community planning. The reformulation of Western planning approaches that include Indigenous methods is beneficial to all communities and non-Indigenous planners.

Panelists:

Heidi Martin; Development Coordinator, Aquilini Indigenous Development Team

Kamala Todd; Filmmaker, Writer, Community planner,  Indigenous City Media

Kevin Barlow; CEO, Metro Vancouver Aboriginal Executive Council (MVAEC)

Spencer Lindsay;  Indigenous Engagement Specialist at the City of Vancouver

 

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Urban Displacement: Stories of Memory, Instability and Hope

Displacement of vulnerable peoples occurs due to a wide range of global and local forces, from war and natural disasters, to urban growth and development. The human experience of urban displacement is complicated, and the emotional aspects of displacement are not often explored.

In this interactive session we will engage with experiences from post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and Vancouver’s own historic Hogan’s Alley. Through their stories, our guests will speak to the themes of Memory, Instability and Hope surrounding urban displacement. Exploring Memory and Instability will deepen our understanding of what it means to feel connection to a place and subsequently uprooted from it. Hope will lead us towards community driven solutions that rekindle cultural ties and legacies in the midst of ever-changing cityscapes.

We will all contribute to this collective story as we explore our own intimate connections to places of personal importance, and have the opportunity to build a collective story of belonging within the complexities of our communities.

Panelists

Anthonia Ogundele; Director: Hogan’s Alley Society

Vanessa Richards; Hogan’s Alley Society

Jeremy Stone; PhD Candidate, UBC SCARP; Sessional Instructor

 

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Overlap: Intersectionality in Practice

The concept of intersectionality recognizes that as individuals, we inhabit a myriad of identities, and is a direct rebuke of feminist rhetoric designed by and for largely white, middle-class, able bodied, and cis-gendered women. As Canada continues on its path to reconciliation and inclusion, applying an intersectional lens to planning can set the premise in which to address and renegotiate power structures and social categorizations. This long-due approach promises to improve environments for a fuller spectrum of city dwellers. In this panel we seek to investigate what an intersectional planning framework could look like, and how this could set cities on a path to true social cohesion and resilience.

Panelists

Stacey Forrester; co-founder of Good Night Out Vancouver; site leader for Hollaback! Vancouver; Harm Reduction Manager for Bass Coast Music Festival

Cicely Blain; writer, facilitator, consultant, and activist of Cicely Blain Consulting; a founder of Black Lives Matter, Vancouver

Parker Johnson; Harassment and Discrimination Prevention Specialist at BCIT

Dr. Joy Masuhara; Co-Chair of Women Transforming Cities International Society

Harlan Pruden; PhD Student, UBC; educator, Chee Mamuk program at the BC Center for Disease Control 

 

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Learning from Mars: A roundtable discussion on (de)-colonization, the ‘turn-key’ project and planning futures

The colonization of Mars, as it relates to the future of human civilization, has occupied the imaginations of both the hard sciences and the arts and humanities—from utopic and dystopic science fiction to Elon Musk’s proposal to develop Mars City: 2024. This panel will explore the roles of planners in shaping the future of Mars. What should planners contribute to the settling of Mars? Could one pre-emptively de-colonize utopia? How did the Martian imagination move from Carl Sagan’s romanticizing to Elon Musk’s paternalist-capitalist vision? Who gets to go to Mars, and who stays behind? Would Martian development be similar to pop-up, temporary, pilgrimage sites on Earth? Will there be slums? What of citizenship and governance? By imagining future human settlement on Mars, this panel will invite us to re-evaluate assumptions of ‘the good [earthly] life’, and account for what we take for granted about life (and planning) on Earth.

Panelists

Nicole Rallis; PhD Student UBC SCARP

Azhar Tyabji; PhD Student UBC SCARP

Jaymie Matthews; professor of Astrophysics at UBC Department of Physics & Astronomy

Jules Koostachin; owner of VisJuelles Productions Inc. & PhD candidate UBC

Taylor R. Genovese; PhD candidate Arizona State University

 

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Unsettling Environmental Review: Thoughts from the Pipelines and the Poetics of Place project

The Pipelines and the Poetics of Place project draws a parallel between how lands, waters and lifeways are torn up to distil sand and bitumen into synthetic oil and how project review distills and pipelines the incredible passion and creativity around the Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipeline and tanker proposals to dispassionate recommendations. In April 2017, a group of scholars, poets, scientists, artists, Aboriginal leaders and citizens gathered in Vancouver to ask: What values and commitments are lost in translation? What is excluded or under-represented? How might these values and the stories that bring them to life be conveyed to people of all ages, cultural and educational backgrounds? The film, Unsettling Environmental Review, focuses on ceremony as a step toward bringing the science and economics that dominate current reviews into conversation with the immeasurable values of love, compassion, gratitude and generosity.

Panelists

Nigel Haggan

Tim Michel

Jennifer Rae Pierce

Natalia Rueda

 

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Reflecting on Multicultural Connections: Planning an Inclusive City with Newcomers

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Campus and Community Planning: Walking Tour

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