This project is experimenting with processes that draw from the fields of social innovation, systemic design, and equity-centered and decolonizing methods as alternatives to the City’s standard policy-making, program delivery, and public engagement processes. The goal is to design and implement processes that center collaboration, power sharing, and nurturing long-term, place-based relationships in the implementation of Vancouver’s new Climate Justice Charter.

Output:

• Completion of learning document, Sharing Power: Codifications and Collective Learnings from Vancouver’s Climate Justice Field School. In October 2023, Vancouver hosted Designing Climate Justice, a major public symposium in collaboration with the Systemic Design Association as a hub event for RSD-12: Entangled in Emergence. The symposium was attended by over 200 researchers, civil servants, design students and community members and included 14 sessions in which a diverse group of facilitations hosted experiences across a range of justice lenses.