Last week, Linda Buchanan, Mayor of North Vancouver, and Paul Dangerfield, President of Capilano University, signed an MOU to launch a CityStudio pilot partnership between the City of North Vancouver and Capilano University.
This announcement builds on the tireless advocacy of Carol Aitken (IDEA) who attended CityStudio Vancouver‘s Art of the Cities conference in Spring 2017 and the support of Laureen Styles, VP Academic & Provost, and Leanne MacCarthy, CNV CAO.
This Spring I’ve had the pleasure of working behind the scenes with Larry Orr, Manager, Business and Community Partnership, to hammer out the details of our new CityStudio North Vancouver partnership
CityStudio North Vancouver is now also a member of the CityStudio Network, a global movement of cities working with post-secondary institutions for civic benefit. Through the co-creation of experimental projects, students gain employable skills and city staff receive support to advance strategic priorities in the community.
Our first series of collaborations will be launched in September 2019
Excitingly, our first ever project generation workshop will be be taking place next Thursday at CityHall with the assistance of Duane Eleverum and Ileana Costrut from CityStudio Vancouver.
And our announcement was featured in yesterday’s North Shore News. Thinking that we are off a good start. Fall 2019 here we come!