PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Opening Remarks, Academic Keynote A, Indigenous Welcome/Recognition of Territory, and Welcome by Summit Hosts (BCIT, City of Vancouver, Ecocity Builders)

Opening Remarks
-Indigenous Welcome
-Recognition of Territory
-Welcome remarks from City of Vancouver, BCIT and Ecocity Builders

Academic Keynote A: Ecocities Emerging and the Ecozoic Era

The two founding pioneers of the global ecocity movement share concepts that have both vision and practical purpose. For them, merely stating the idea of an ecocity implies an agenda for society, culture, economics, and government with a vision and intention for action that stretches indefinitely into the future.

Speakers:

-Richard Register, Ecocity Pioneer, Founder of the Ecocity World Summit Conference Series. Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature
-Paul Downton, Architect, Urban Evolutionary, Author, and Convenor of the 2nd Ecocity Conference Scaling to Ecopolis: Living in the Bioregion

Moderator: Sahar Attia

Presentation(s)

10:25 - 10:40 - AC.01A.01: A Sustainable City Paradigm to Amman City, Jordan: Criteria and Indicators of Efficiency, Ahmad Al-Zoabi, American University of Madaba, Jordan

10:40 - 10:55 - AC.01A.02: Governing Eco-Cities in China: the Political Ecology of Guangming Eco-City Initiative, Shenzhen, Ying Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

10:55 - 11:10 - AC.01A.03: Sustainable Hyper-Density City Design, Connect, Conserve, and Cultivate - A Case Study in Singapore, Asia, Chao Yuan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Moderator: Richard Smith

Presentation(s):

10:25 - 10:40 - AC.01B.01: Environment Services Payment in the Context of Technourbansphere: Case Study in Megametropolis Paulista, Sp, Brazil, Rosely Imbernon, University of São Paulo, Brazil

10:55 - 11:10 - AC.01B.03: How Machine Learning Can Help Solve America's Lead Crisis, Raanan Gurewitsch, University of Pittsburgh, United States

Moderator: Douglas Ragan

Presentation(s):

10:25 - 10:40 - AC.01D.01: Green Roofs Meet the International Ecocity Standards: Using an Eco-value Matrix to Determine How Different Green Roof Types Influence the Ecological and Social Health of Cities, Christine Thuring, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

10:40 - 10:55 - AC.01D.02: Blue-Green Connected Roofs: How Much Better Does a ‘Blue-Green Connected’ Roof Perform to Reduce Heating/Cooling Loads and Manage Storm Water?, Harveer Takhar, British Columbia Institute of Technology , Canada

10:55 - 11:10 - AC.01D.03: On Participatory Nature: An Open-Source Guide for the Activation of Ecology in Drosscape, Boomi Kim, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Session supported by

AC.02A.01: BC Housing's Journey Towards Social, Environmental and Economic Sustainability

Presentation(s):

Moderator: Sheryl Peters

11:40 - 11:55 Social Housing in the New Climate, Magdalena Szpala, BC Housing, Canada

11:55 - 12:10 Rapid Response to Homelessness Program , James Forsyth, BC Housing, Canada

12:10 - 12:25 Partnerships to address the Housing and Addictions Crisis,
Emme Lee, BC Housing, Canada

12:25 - 12:40 Climate Adaptation at Clark and 1st Ave , Susan MacDougall, BC Housing, Canada

Session supported by:

Presentation(s):

11:40 - 11:55 - AC.02B.01: Keep on Breathing: Monitoring and Modeling of Outdoor and Indoor Air Quality, Olga Petrov, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Canada

11:55 - 12:10 - AC.02B.02: Air Quality – from Local to Global and Back, Goran Krstic, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

12:10 - 12:25 - AC.02B.03: Computational Parametric Study to Improve Air Quality in High-Density Cities, Chao Yuan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Presentation(s):

Moderator: Toregas Costis

11:40 - 11:55 - AC.02C.01: Climate Action: Comparing Three Ways to Mobilize Community for One-planet Living, Uschi Bay, Monash University, Australia

11:55 - 12:10 - AC.02C.02: Spaces, Places and Possibilities: A Participatory Approach for Developing and Using Systems Models and Visualizations for Integrated Community Planning, Robert Newell, Royal Roads University, Canada

12:10 - 12:25 - AC.02C.03: Advancing Women Leadership for Climate Action, Marisa Espinosa, City of Vancouver, Canada

Academic Keynote B: Ecocities Emerging in Vancouver: Reflections on the Greenest City 2020 Action Plan and What Lies Ahead

Follow Vancouver’s trajectory as a world-leading ecocity. The City of Vancouver and its metropolitan region exemplify ecocity design solutions at work. This session will review Vancouver's historical evolution starting with planning decisions to create livable, mixed-use centres that favour walking, cycling and transit.

Speaker: Doug Smith , Director, Sustainability, City of Vancouver

Session Panel:

-Bryan Buggey, Director, Vancouver Economic Commission
-Duane Elverum, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Citystudio Vancouver
-Vanessa Timmer, Co-Founder & Executive Director, One Earth

Presentation(s):

Moderator: Narasimhan Aparajithan

15:40 - 15:55 - AC.03A.01: Re-visiting the Concept of the Building Code's Reference House, Remi Charron, New York Institute of Technology - Vancouver Campus, Canada

15:55 - 16:10 - AC.03A.02: Quantifying Passive Energy Exchange between a Rooftop Greenhouse and Host Building, Luke Moir, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

16:10 - 16:25 - AC.03A.01: Passive Strategies for the Sustainable Design of Healthcare Facilities Located in Warm Climates, Maite Bravo, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

Session supported by:

Presentation(s):

15:40 - 15:55 - AC.03B.01: Acknowledging Trade-offs and Reframing Human Excreta Management as Part of Food and Farming Systems, Robin Harder, The University of British Columbia, Canada

15:55 - 16:10 - AC.03B.02: Reuse of Urban and Peri-urban Organic Residues for Mitigation of Environmental Impacts from Industry, Sue Satyro, The University of British Columbia, Canada

16:10 - 16:25 - AC.03B.03: Identifying Urban Nutrient Hotspots, Rosanne Wielemaker, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

Presentation(s):

Moderator:

15:40 - 15:55 - AC.03D.01: Elements of Community Capacity Building in Post-earthquake Reconstruction of Nepal, Bishnu Pandey, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

15:55 - 16:10 - AC.03D.02: Towards Ecocities: Case Guayaquil - Ecuador, a Sustainable Framework for Slum Dwellers of Western Suburb and Their Impact on the Estero Salado Branches, Alicia Freire, AIDIS, United States

16:10 - 16:25 - AC.03D.03: Regulatory and Policy Urban Planning Objectives Revisited According to Environmental Indicators: The Case of the Greater Montreal , Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon, ETS Montreal, Canada

Presentation(s):

Moderator: Yousefi Amir

16:55 - 17:10 - AC.04A.01: Willingness to Use Non-motorized Transport Is Under-estimated , John Zacharias, Peking University, China

17:10 - 17:25 - AC.04A.02: Building a Cycling-friendly Transportation System for Luhe District in Nanjing, China, Xiangnan Fan, Southeast University, China

17:25 - 17:40 - AC.04A.03: Challenge and Solutions for the Mass Deployment of Electric Vehicles, Heydarali Palizban, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

Presentation(s):

Moderator: Moussiopoulos Nicolas

16:55 - 17:10 - AC.04B.01: An Integrated Approach to Waste Management in Metro Vancouver: Challenges and Opportunities, Michal Aibin, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

17:10 - 17:25 - AC.04B.02: Making Cement from Demolished Concrete: A Potential Circular Economy Through Geopolymer Chemistry, D.J. Lake, Terra CO2 Technologies, Canada

17:25 - 17:40 - AC.04B.03: A Hybrid Model for Sustainable Urban Metabolism in Metropolitan Communities, Michal Aibin, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

Presentation(s):

Moderator: Toregas Costis

16:55 - 17:10 - AC.04C.01: Design Thinking as a Collaborative Approach for Creating Sustainable Solutions in the Built Environment, Diane Pruneau, Université de Moncton, Canada

17:10 - 17:25 - AC.04C.02: Synergic Effects of Circular and Network Economies to Enhance Urban Sustainability, Calin Gurau, Montpellier Business School, Montpellier Research in Management, France

17:25 - 17:40 - AC.04C.03: Design Thinking as a Collaborative Approach for Creating Sustainable Solutions in the Built Environment, Richard Smith, Wayne State University, United States

Presentation(s):

Moderator: Jennifer Rae Pierce, Urban Biodiversity Hub

17:10 - 17:25 - AC.04D.01: Rethinking the Territory, Concepción Chile, Catalina Rey Hernandez, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

17:25 - 17:40 - AC.04D.02: Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Cities: An Urban Green Equity Perspective, Michael Meitner, University of British Columbia, Canada

17:40 - 17:55 - AC.04D.03: Designing and Testing a Plant Palette for Biodiverse Streetscapes, Nicholas Williams, University of Melbourne, Australia

Ecocity World Summit conference delegates are invited to celebrate World Habitat Day and the launch of the Zero Energy/Emissions Buildings exhibition at Science World.

Join UN Habitat and City of Vancouver officials to reflect on the role of Vancouver as the founding place of UN Habitat, the host city for the World Urban Forum in 2006, and host city of Ecocity World Summit in 2019. Food and refreshments will be served, and participants will get to learn about zero energy/emissions buildings while being the first to interact with this new science exhibit.

Location:
This event is hosted at the world famous Telus World of Science, located at 455 Quebec St, Vancouver.

Registrations:
Registration is free of charge but with limited space. Ecocity 2019 delegates can secure their entrance to the celebration by signing up here using the password UN-ZEB.

Schedule:

18:30: World Habitat Day and Zero Energy/Emissions Buildings Reception – Doors open to conference delegates
19:00: World Habitat Day and Zero Energy/Emissions Buildings Reception – Doors open to general public
19:30: Zero Energy/Emissions Buildings Keynote (UN Habitat guest speakers)
20:00: Official Launch of the ZEB Science Exhibit (Kathy Kinloch, BCIT’s president to welcome and launch the exhibit)
21:00: Event Ends

Presenter(s):
Cora Hallsworth, Cora Hallsworth Consulting, Canada
Jennie Moore, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

This workshop will explore lessons learned in creating an integrated urban metabolism (UM), consumption-based emission inventories (CBEI) and ecological footprint (EF) for cities, and how this information can be used to inform planning at the city level. Dr. Moore and Ms. Hallsworth have worked with numerous cities using the ecoCity Footprint Tool that brings these three elements together and can inform the Ecocity Standards.

Ms. Hallsworth and Dr. Moore will engage workshop participants in exploring how this broadened understanding of climate and resource impacts can inform policy and planning; what leverage points can be tapped to reduce consumption impacts; how to streamline the creation of these types of inventories; and how to reframe these issues to achieve broader engagement amongst policy makers, business stakeholders, and youth representatives.

Presenter(s):
Angelique Pilon
Lindsay MacDonald
Jennifer Davidson

Emerald Corridor Collaboratory (ECC) is a network of city-university partnerships based in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada and supported by the Bullitt Foundation. Cities and towns in our region are facing a common set of issues such as climate change, land use, affordable housing, and transportation, while trying to develop solutions informed by principles of equity and sustainability. ECC is working to strengthen individual city-university partnerships, bringing together leaders in a regional network to catalyze and implement change in a coordinated and effective manner.

This session will engage participants from around the world in discussing strategies, challenges and benefits of developing and strengthening partnerships between cities and their local academic institutions. Experiences and learning from establishing the ECC will be shared, followed by facilitated discussions of participants’ experiences with these issues in their own cities and the potential opportunities for collaborations between their cities and universities.

Presenter(s):
Angelique Pilon, University of British Columbia, Canada
Lindsay MacDonald, Western Washington University, United States
Jennifer Davidson, Urban@UW, University of Washington, United States

Emerald Corridor Collaboratory (ECC) is a network of city-university partnerships based in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada and supported by the Bullitt Foundation. Cities and towns in our region are facing a common set of issues such as climate change, land use, affordable housing, and transportation, while trying to develop solutions informed by principles of equity and sustainability. ECC is working to strengthen individual city-university partnerships, bringing together leaders in a regional network to catalyze and implement change in a coordinated and effective manner.

This session will engage participants from around the world in discussing strategies, challenges and benefits of developing and strengthening partnerships between cities and their local academic institutions. Experiences and learning from establishing the ECC will be shared, followed by facilitated discussions of participants’ experiences with these issues in their own cities and the potential opportunities for collaborations between their cities and universities.

Presenter(s):
Theresa Williamson, Catalytic Communities, Brazil

Rio de Janeiro's favelas offer an exceptional laboratory from which to reflect on the nature of multi-generational self-built development of informal settlements, to consider what the world might learn from these settlements, the relationship of housing to belonging and sustainability, and to use this knowledge to create more flexible, adaptive, singularly diverse, creative and resilient cities—all qualities of informality that are conspicuously absent from most formal environments. Tools and divergent perspectives from Rio de Janeiro's Sustainable Favela Network where informal settlements are working to develop their own model of sustainability, built on their qualities and assets, will be presented.

The workshop will engage the public in three activities designed to shatter their traditional thinking and renovate their perspectives on sustainable urbanism, to help them think outside their traditional disciplines and contexts, a necessary skill as we work together to develop the highly creative solutions we need moving forward.

PLEASE NOTE - WS 04 HAS BEEN COMBINED WITH WS 05. BELOW CONTENT IS UPDATED ON SEP 25, 2019

Ecocity Standards to support Locals Action for Healthy Communities: Focus on Sound Quality

Presenter(s):

Kirstin Miller, Ecocity Builders
Maureen Connelly, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Lee Beaulieu, Urban Design & Sustainability, City of Vancouver
Steve Meszaros, RWDI consulting Engineers and Scientist
Mayor Chiri Maharjan, Lalitpur, Neapl
Maureen Wilhelm-Blanc, Ville de Montreal, Quebec

Sound Quality is proposed as a new Bio-Geophysical Condition within the International Ecocity Framework. Participants will gain insights to how communities can be catalysts for climate action and balanced urban soundscapes that boosts quality of life and protects critical ecosystems. The workshop goal is to support the development of comprehensive indicators that are unique to Sound Quality.

Presentation and discussion topics include:

• How smart land-use decisions and building design effectively support Sound Quality, Clean and Renewable Energy, and Responsible Resources and Materials;
• Prediction of the zero-carbon city soundscape— without masking today’s combustible engine road noise, will the public transit train and buskers pierce an ambience of urban tranquility?
Background:

At Ecocity World Summit, Melbourne 2017, the inclusion of Sound Quality in the International EcoCity Framework was proposed. The premise is that in and ecocity, citizens experience sound quality in buildings and outdoors that is conducive to good health. The overall rational is that reducing excessive noise levels will reduce disease, and exposure to the sounds of nature will support health. Furthermore, that an ecologically balanced soundscape will support a diversity of culturally unique sounds and ambient sonic backgrounds.

Sound quality as a Bio-Geophysical Condition was evaluated within the Ecocity Framework for synergies with the four pillars of sustainability to advance the vision of ecologically-restorative sonic environments. This imperative standard adopts noise criteria from the World Health Organization for the Ecocity 1 benchmark. Principles of ambient soundscape analysis conceptualize the Gaia Level Ecocity. Literature and examination determined that no one single existing standard could appropriately host Sound Quality as a subset within its definition as the comprehensive series of indicators are unique to each existing definition and to Sound Quality. As such, Sound Quality will be an additional Bio Geophysical Condition for inclusion in the forthcoming revision of the International Ecocity Framework.

Presenter(s):
Dr. Vanessa Timmer, One Earth, Canada
Dr. Lewis Akenji, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
Ms. Anu Mänty, The Finnish Innovation Fund, Finland
Mr. Markus Tehro, SITRA The Finnish Innovation Fund, Finland
Ms. Nicole van den Berg, Utrecht University
Sustainable lifestyles remains a political "hot-potato" issue, but also an inevitable part of creating ecocities. Although mainstreaming sustainable lifestyles is the essence of implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change and the UN Agenda 2030, there is little evidence that practical efforts and political gestures are based on a clear interpretation of what is needed to shift the dominant urban consumerist lifestyles.

This interactive workshop brings together five international initiatives engaged in reframing our approaches to lifestyles as a key part of creating ecocities and sustainable societies: incorporating lifestyles options into the IMAGE global climate model, 1.5 Degree Lifestyles Report, SITRA Finnish Innovation Fund everyday living work, the Envisioning Sustainable Living Futures project, and the Beacon on Sustainable Living. Workshop participants explore this reframing including how science inputs into solutions design in order to shift our everyday lives to advance climate action, circular economy, and ecocities.

Presenter(s):
Steven Peck, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, Canada
James Klasesn, The Roofing Contractors Association of BC, Canada

To be a successful part of urban policy initiatives – that is, to have a lasting impact on their urban environment – green roofs must be carefully and intentionally designed as a blend of a durable, leak-free platform and a well-designed, installed and maintained living vegetated system. Each of these – the roof platform and the vegetation it supports – must be built by trained professionals using proven materials installed according to clear, objective, evidence-based standards. Each must be independently reviewed for quality assurance during and after construction. And for quality assurance to be meaningful, both the platform roof and the vegetated assembly must be financially guaranteed.

This session collaboratively explores the key components of a successful green roof program, including the standards that elevate both the roof platform and vegetated roofing beyond good to eminently successful. Additionally, participants will be introduced to the comprehensive training required for Green Roof Professional (GRP) accreditation.

Presenter(s):
James Boothroyd, Ecocity Builders, Canada
Kirstin Miller, Ecocity Builders, United States

Cities everywhere need to engage many more residents in support of the behavioural and systemic changes needed for ecocities. This workshop will bring together leaders of six successful citizen-led projects from Africa and the Americas—and 50 delegates—to explore how local decision-makers can free-up citizens to experiment in building more socially just, ecologically sustainable cities. The workshop will be informal, interactive and enjoyable, with elements of PechaKucha (concise presentations by project leaders) and speed-dating (leaders interact directly for short periods with small groups of participants).

Facilitated by James Boothroyd, co-author of Project Green Bloc, and Kirstin Miller, Executive Director of Ecocity Builders, this session should be of interest to local government decision-makers, planners, grant-makers, community groups and activists.

Presenter(s):
Meg O'Shea, Vancouver Economic Commission, Canada

Conventional metrics for measuring economic prosperity such as GDP and unemployment communicate a limited perspective on a region’s economic wellbeing. To better understand the complexity of economic wellbeing and community resilience, alternative visions of economic prosperity should be considered and potentially integrated to form a comprehensive and meaningful picture of a community’s strengths and needs. Indicators drawn from indigenous worldviews, health and wellness research, faith-based leadership, social innovation practices, the labour movement, entrepreneurship, and resilience theory and practice all offer alternative visions of economic prosperity. This workshop facilitates a friendly exchange of views and explores potential common ground that may exist between conventional and alternative visions of prosperity. For municipal decision-makers, theEcoCties of the future will require sophisticated and multi-dimensional metrics that capture the experience of all residents and reveal opportunities for intervention that will provide equitable benefits to residents.

Presenter(s):
Maureen Connelly, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada
Steve Meszaros
Lee Beaulieu, City of Vancouver, Canada

Presenter(s):
Tracy Casavant, Light House / NISP, Canada

Introduction to eco-industrial park planning, including developments from ‘raw’ land and retrofits / revitalizations. Your city can pursue sustainability while embracing your industrial land uses, not in spite of them! More than just industrial parks with some industrial symbiosis, the concept has evolved to consider the application of ecological design through the entire development cycle – from subdivision planning, to infrastructure and building design and construction, to operations. The first half will cover theory and examples. In the latter half, participants will get to try their hand at planning a new EIP or retrofitting an existing development. Participants are encouraged to table examples from their own cities for the working session.

Each participant is encouraged to bring his/her own laptop with wifi access. Participants wishing to table an industrial park example from their own cities are encouraged to bring relevant maps and photos and to contact the instructor ahead of time.

Presenter(s):
Sadia Afrin, BC Housing, Canada
Lisa Westerhoff, Integral Group, Canada
Pamela Kertland, Natural Resources Canada, Canada
James Lu, Vancouver Coastal Health, Canada

MBAR is a multi-stakeholder knowledge and capacity building project led by BC Housing with participation and contribution from over 30 organizations, including national, provincial, local agencies and industry partners. By facilitating and piloting sustainable and resilient design and renovation of buildings, the MBAR project will help building owners and occupants adapt to anticipated climate change stresses (higher precipitation, warmer summers, fire-related air pollution) and climate change shocks (severe flooding, fire, windstorms).

This full-day interactive workshop engages participants with leading building practitioners in Canada who are working to mobilize the construction sector’s capacity to improve climate adaptation and resilience in building design and renovations. Participants will learn how to improve buildings to mitigate the health and financial risks posed by climate change and to work towards a low carbon resilient future.

Breaks will be included.

Presenter(s):
Ann Dale, Royal Roads University, Canada
Jaime Clifton-Ross, Royal Roads University, Canada

Given the spread of misinformation and the challenges in effectively communicating research on climate change and sustainable development to the wider public(s), it is crucial for research to make a difference. Research curation is a new method to communicate research outcomes online to diverse audiences, building upon contemporary museum practices as well as best practices in social media marketing. It combines internet communication technologies (ICT’s) with select curatorial and communication frameworks for a wider dissemination of research outcomes. Based on a new research curation best practices framework (publication forthcoming), this practitioner workshop will inform participants how to develop a digital communication strategy, how to conduct audience research, how to write social media content, and how to personalize their work. As museums have a long history of educating and engaging the public, we will also outline two useful museum frameworks that can enhance web communication practices. Given the volume of information available online, it is important to create a smoke signal around your research. This workshop will conclude with tips and tricks on how to reformat and present research outcomes into engaging and user-friendly media formats.

Presenter(s):
Peter Laybourn, International Synergies Ltd, UK
Timo Makinen, National Industrial Symbiosis Program Canada, Canada

The National Industrial Symbiosis Program (NISP®) model creates financial benefits to businesses by establishing business-to-business synergies where ‘waste’ resources, such as materials, energy or water but also physical assets or expertise, from one or more business can be used by another to replace a virgin feedstock or even to support new product lines. The NISP® model eschews cumbersome waste audits, and instead uses a regional facilitation model. The NISP® model has been adapted to more than 30 countries worldwide, and has been endorsed by the EU Directorate General for the Environment, the OECD, WWF, and the G7-Alliance for Resource Efficiency. Participants will have the opportunity to see first hand how the NISP® model works via a participatory demo. At the close of the workshop, we will work through the process of establishing regional NISP® models.

Presenter(s):
Gwendal Castellan, Tourism Vancouver

Presenter(s):
Brock Trimble

Presenter(s):
Alexandre Hebert, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

Visit the Vancouver Museum of Science (aka: Science World, only a few blocks away from the convention centre) and be the first to interact with the new Zero Energy Buildings Exhibit. The field trip will include a tour of the new exhibit, as well as a series of hands-on learning exercises that will allow you to do a deeper dive in the world of passive houses.

Presenter(s):
Liska Richer, SEEDS Sustainability Program, Campus + Community Planning, Canada
Tara Moreau, UBC Botanical Garden, Canada

Agenda

10:15 – tour participants leave Vancouver Convention Centre (with a tour escort)
11:00 - 11:15 - arrive at UBC
11:15 - 1:00 – tour
13:00 - participants leave UBC transit exchange (with a tour escort)
13:50 - participants arrive Vancouver Convention Centre

The University of British Columbia (UBC), with its Campus as a Living Laboratory and extensive local and global networks, serves as a societal and student testbed where research, learning and engagement create transformative impacts towards advancing socially just and ecologically sustainability cities. During this ‘walkshop’ of the beautiful UBC Vancouver Campus, participants will engage in an interactive tour exploring innovative examples of applied and impactful research, learning and engagement. This tour will focus on sharing leading collaborative examples pertaining to biodiversity in a changing climate which delegates will have the opportunity to learn and experience firsthand.

The tour will navigate from UBC Botanical Garden’s and the Greenheart Treewalk to various stops on campus where guests will explore topics affecting biodiversity in a changing climate. Key highlights and takeways will include learning about: Pacific Northwest ecosystems, innovative biodiversity green building designs, valuing of biodiversity and trees, collaborative partnerships, innovative research and public outreach initiatives, and bird-friendly buildings.

Presenter(s):
Dale Mikkelsen, SFU Community Trust, Canada

Currently home to 5,200 residents, and preparing for another 4,000 by 2022, UniverCity on Burnaby Mountain has received more than 30 major awards for best practices and achievement in planning and sustainability. From its inception, UniverCity began setting its sights on the highest standards for construction and was the first community in Greater Vancouver to devise Green Building Guidelines. Then, the Trust took it further by working with the City of Burnaby to preserve those standards in a set of the most ambitious green building bylaws in the country.

Led by SFU Community Trust, UniverCity boasts a community of firsts and the tour will include: the greenest childcare centre on the planet, the first LEED® Gold retrofitted school in BC, an award-winning stormwater management, district energy system, and homes ranging from family-friendly townhomes to concrete high-rises to mixed used developments. Also featured will be sustainable green building and master-planning. www.univercity.ca

Field Trip notes:

-Participants will be picked up by SFU Community Trust staff at 10:15 AM at Vancouver Convention Centre (VCC) West and take the 95 bus to SFU
-The field trip starts at 11:00 and ends at 13:00 - 13:15 (Actual Time TBD)
-SFU Community Trust staff sends participants on a bus by 13:30 or earlier to make sure participants can go back to VCC West by 14:00 for the afternoon Keynote Speech

Field trip attendees must meet in the lobby of the Vancouver Convention Centre

Presenter(s):
Brock Trimble, Sharc Energy Systems Inc, Canada
Lynn Mueller, Sharc Energy Systems Inc, Canada

Wall Centre Central Park (Wall Centre) is a mixed-use residential development in Vancouver, British Columbia. It consists of two phases. Phase 1 contains 728 units and was made open to the public in 2017, while Phase 2 contains 332 units and was made open in 2018.

Each phase incorporates a wastewater heat recovery system from SHARC Energy Systems, sized to provide a substantial portion of the water heating load at high efficiencies. The system can be designed to accommodate up to 100% of the water heating load. Phase 1 incorporates a SHARC 660 unit while Phase 2 implements two PIRANHA T10 units. These systems use heat from the buildings’ wastewater to heat incoming cold water and displace the need for natural gas. This helped to reduce the development’s energy demand and carbon footprint, thereby contributing to its LEED® Gold certification.

Field trip attendees must meet in the lobby of the Vancouver Convention Centre

Presenter(s):
Bill MacKinnon, BC Housing, Canada

Bill MacKinnon, Senior Manager of Energy and Sustainability at BC Housing will host a half-day walking/rapid transit exterior tour of BC Housing social housing sites. Participants will have an opportunity to view some of BC Housing’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified, and BC Provincial Energy Step Code compliant buildings, learn about energy efficient building design, meet staff who provide support services at the sites, and tour the Olympic Village which has a low carbon district energy system!

The route: Participants will take the SkyTrain line to Main Street-Science World Station, walk through Olympic Village along the scenic southeast False Creek seawall, and will take the Canada Line to return to the Convention Centre.

Start Location: Underneath the globe statue in the main foyer inside the Vancouver Convention Centre West Building (Note: Attendees will be responsible for purchasing a DayPass Compass Ticket from a Compass Vending Machine). Pack comfortable walking shoes and a rain jacket/umbrella.

Field trip attendees must meet in the lobby of the Vancouver Convention Centre

Presenter(s):
Brad Badelt, City of Vancouver, Canada

Brad Badelt, Assistant Director of Sustainability with the City of Vancouver will host a half-day walking tour of Southeast False Creek and Olympic Village. Participants will have an opportunity to visit the Olympic Village, a LEED platinum neighbourhood, which has a low-carbon district energy system, along with viewing examples of innovative stormwater management and park design, as well as sustainability-related public art.

The route: Participants will take the Canada Line to Olympic Village station, walk along the seawall and through Olympic Village, along the scenic southeast False Creek seawall and through Olympic Village, and will take the Expo Line (from Main Street station) to return to the Convention Centre.

Start Location: Field trip meeting point (lobby of the Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building).

Note: Attendees will be responsible for purchasing a DayPass Compass Ticket from a Compass Vending Machine. Pack comfortable walking shoes and a rain jacket/umbrella.

Presenter(s):
Dhalathan Aiyathurai, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

Work-integrated learning with a focus on sustainability provides a platform for the transformation that must happen in education and communities. The Interdisciplinary Work Integrated Learning (iWIL) initiative is enabling students to approach these problems through supportive, multidisciplinary, and work-integrated learning environments. This field trip will hold 10 of the impressive Computer System Technology projects. The student projects focused on solving day-to-day problems address 1 or more International Ecocity Standards. Each project has been developed by first-year students from BCIT with the guidance by Dr. Jennie Moore, Dhalathan Aiyathurai, and Carly Orr.

With an increase of new collaborations and communication, iWIL enables ecocity-inspired information to heavily impact BCIT and its community. The iWIL service is enhancing sustainability education at BCIT and empowering students to run towards the problem and provide solutions for our communities and businesses.

Academic Keynote C: Ecocities Actualized through Regenerative Processes and Evolutionary Intelligence

Join the lead planner for the experimental ecocity of Auroville, India, and an urban catalyst and author for a journey into the intersections between self and community.

Speakers:

-Lalit Kishor Bhati, PATH Architects & Planners, Auroville, India. Auroville - Practicing Regeneration in Place and Spirit
-Douglas Ragan, UN Habitat, Chief, Youth and Livelihood Unit Mathare – practicing regeneration of place in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi
-Marilyn Hamilton, Founder, Integral City Meshworks, Inc. UK. Evolving Gaia's Reflective Organ

Moderator: Ken Cameron

Presentation(s):

10:25 - 10:40 - AC.05A.01: Using Transferable Development Rights for Climate Action, Rick Pruetz, Planning & Implementation Strategies, United States

10:40 - 10:55 - AC.05A.02: Repurposing the City: Small Town Regeneration in Kinston, North Carolina, Beverly Bass, California Polytechnic State University, United States

10:55 - 11:10 - AC.05A.03: Interactions Between Livability, Spatial Equity and Climate Mitigation in Future Neighbourhoods, Cynthia Girling, University of British Columbia, Canada

Session supported by:

Moderator: Forrest Tittle

Presentation(s):

10:25 - 10:40 - AC.05C.01: Analysis of Creative Industry Policy in Hong Kong for Sustainable Development, Ka Man Tsang, Hong Kong Design Institue, Hong Kong

10:40 - 10:55 - AC.05C.02: Ecofiction and Prose: The Presentation Will Engage the Community with Examples Showing How the Written Word, Particularly in Ecologically Oriented Fiction and Prose, Can Have a Positive Impact on Culture, Building Healthy Micro- and Macro-Communities Dealing with Change and Loss in the Planet's Rapidly Shifting Natural Landscapes and Climates, Mary Woodbury, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

10:55 - 11:10 - AC.05C.03: The Roles of Affect, Education, and Nature in Motivating Actions on Sustainability, Andrea Byfuglien, University of British Columbia, Canada

Moderator: Jeff Dycka

Presentation(s):

10:25 - 10:40 - AC.05D.01: Are All Greens the Same? Investigating the Effect of Urban Park Quality on Visitors’ Mental Well-being Outcomes, Jessica Felappi, Center for Development Research - University of Bonn, Germany

10:40 - 10:55 - AC.05D.02: Residential-scale Ecological Design Initiatives Can Improve on City-scale Sustainability, Resilience, and Infrastructure Demands - Accessing Grassroots and Professional Landscaping Standards, William Dowie, University of Manitoba, Canada

10:55 - 11:10 - AC.05D.03: Building Cities as Gardens: Green Teams for Green Growth, Tara Moreau, UBC Botanical Garden, Canada

Moderator: Cora Hallsworth

Presentation(s):

11:40 - 11:55 - AC.06C.01: Rapid Assessment of City Policies for Sustainability and Health, Jonathon Taylor, University College London, United Kingdom

11:55 - 12:10 - AC.06C.02: Lessons Learned from BC's Climate Innovators, Ann Dale, Royal Roads University, Canada

12:10 - 12:25 - AC.06C.03: Do Local Governments Really Embrace Change? A Sentiment Analysis,Francois Jost, Royal Roads University, Canada

Moderator: Beth Sanders

Presentation(s):

11:40 - 11:55 - AC.06D.01: Informal Solutions Towards Personal Net Zero, Joey Dabell, BC Institute of Technology, Smart Microgrid Applied Research Team (SMART), Canada

11:55 - 12:10 - AC.06D.02: Energy Independence Policies: Impacts on Emissions, Cost and System Operation, Michael Storwick, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

12:10 - 12:25 - AC.06D.03: Informality in the Production of Open Green Space in Kampung-Kota, Indonesia, Bagas Putra, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

Academic Keynote D: City Blue; A Personal Journey from Urban Stream Restoration to World Rivers Day

In City Blue, renowned river conservationist and World Rivers Day founder, Mark Angelo, takes the audience on a visually stunning 5 decade global journey; one that explores the values of urban waterways, the pressures that confront them, along with inspiring conservation and restoration examples he has encountered, and been part of. As a paddler, Mark has traveled well over 1000 rivers spanning more than 100 countries - perhaps more than any other. And while Mark has descended the planet’s most remote waterways, he has also paddled though the heart of the world’s great cities.

City Blue elaborates on how local ground-breaking urban stream restoration efforts helped inspire the creation of World Rivers Day, now one of the biggest environmental celebrations on the planet. Among Mark’s many accolades, he is a recipient of the Order of BC and the Order of Canada, his country’s highest honour, in recognition of his river conservation efforts both at home and abroad. Mark’s work has been the subject of major television specials, internationally acclaimed feature films, and Emmy award winning investigative news features. Mark retired as the long time head of the BCIT Fish and Wildlife Department and is Chair Emeritus of the BCIT Rivers Institute.

Speaker:

-Mark Angelo, Founder of BC Rivers Day and World Rivers Day. Scaling ecological restoration - a journey from one urban stream to one thousand rivers

Moderator: Forrest Tittle

Presentation(s):

15:40 - 15:55 - AC.07D.01: Green Urban Infrastructure Integrated in Urban Planning: Gaps and Opportunities in the City of Montería, Neila Maria Gonzalez Tejada, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia

15:55 - 16:10 - AC.07D.02: Biochar: A Renewable Carbon-based Material for Passive Remediation of Stormwater Runoff, Amir Dehkhoda, British Columbia Institute Of Technology, Canada

16:25 - 16:40 - AC.07D.03: Developing a Decentralized and Integrated Water Management System for Neighborhood Communities Within Indonesia’s Informal Urban Settlements, Armin Fuchs, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Moderator: Jennifer Pierce

Presentation(s):

15:40 - 15:55 - AC.07D.01: Climate Change Control: Building a Stable Interface Between Nature and Developments in Emerging Cities, Iheanyi Nnodirim Alaka, IMO State University, Nigeria

15:55 - 16:10 - AC.07D.02: Eco-Districts as an Example of Transformative Change? An Investigation of Energy Use in Parc Marianne, Montpellier and Olympic Village, VancouverDominica Babicki, University Of Western Ontario/Aix-Marseille University, Canada

16:10 - 16:25 - AC.07D.03: Reconnecting with Nature: Building Cities and Developing Urban Spaces in Balance, Steffen Lehmann, University of Nevada Las Vegas, United States

Presentation(s):

16:55 - 17:10 - AC.08B.01:Tough Clients/Complex Sites: A University-led Community Conversation Strategy to Build Public Trust, Dan Meehan, Penn State University, United States

17:10 - 17:25 - AC.08B.02: Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Sao Paulo City: Under the Scope of Climate Change and Health Risks, Silvia Berenice Quintana Sagarnaga, Center for Development Research - University of Bonn, Germany

17:25 - 17:40 - AC.08B.03: BCIT’s Burnaby Campus: A Contrast in Urban Soils, Jace Standish, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

Moderator: Mark Roseland

Presentation(s):

16:55 - 17:10 - AC.08C.01: Municipality Research Center, an Essential Organizational Structure to Achieve Sustainable Development in Cities, Elham Fallah Manshadi, Tehran Urban Planning and Research Center, Canada

17:10 - 17:25 - AC.08C.02: The Empowerment of Civil Society in the Participatory Spaces in São Paulo State Hydrographic Basin Committees, Brazil, Rosely Imbernon, University of São Paulo, Brazil

17:25 - 17:40 - AC.08C.03: Nudging a Campus Toward Sustainability Utilizing Student Led Research Teams, Matthew Rockall, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

17:40 - 17:55 - AC.08C.04: The University of British Columbia’s Approach to Measuring Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, Elham Haghbin, University of British Columbia, Canada

Moderator: Nicolas Moussiopoulos

Presentation(s):

17:10 - 17:25 - AC.08D.02: The Ideal City System with Tripartite Programming - High-performance Economic City, a Health Sustaining City and a Mitigating Ecological Uniting All the Ecocity Themes with a Paradigm Shift in Reality, Robert Daniels, In-Harmony Foundation, United States

17:25 - 17:40 - AC.08D.03: Use of Biochar to Improve Stormwater Runoff Quality, Samira Jalizi, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada; Ken Ashley, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada; Colleen C.V. Chan, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

Official Indigenous Welcome

Welcome by Summit Hosts (British Columbia Institute of Technology/City of Vancouver/British Columbia Government, and Ecocity Builders)

Presentation by Paul Hawken: Insights into Top Actionable Solutions to Reverse Global Warming

Presenter(s):
James Godwin, DIALOG, Canada
Lucas Ozols-Mongeau, DIALOG, Canada
Emily Rennalls, DIALOG, Canada

This session demonstrates a stakeholder engagement exercise that uses the approach of ‘Regenerative Design.’ Regenerative design aims to foster a co-evolution between all living systems in the development of our built and natural environments. The approach allows design teams – whether Planners, Architects, or beyond – and stakeholders to consider the breadth of the ecological community affected by our actions, and to improve the quality of beneficial relationships formed by any enterprise. This interactive exercise will outline a process of role-playing within a speculative project to better inform future decisions towards the holistic benefit of all living systems. It will introduce an engagement process that will challenge participants to step beyond their point of view and assume the attitudes, needs and values of a variety of biotic stakeholders within a given site. The session is relevant to all attendees whether engaged in private practice, municipalities, education, NGOs, or in advocate roles.”

Presenter(s):
Kerly Hitchcock, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada
Patricia Bell, Community Energy Association, Canada

Are you curious how ecodesign, energy management, and energy planning affects our greenhouse gas emissions, economy, and wellbeing? Join the BCIT, Community Energy Association, and Community Power in an interactive workshop that explores these affects at the community level.

Presenter(s):
Rohan Lilauwala, Green Infrastructure Foundation, Canada

The benefits of green infrastructure (like urban trees, rain gardens, and green roofs) are well known, but difficult to value. This difficulty creates an obstacle, where green infrastructure is often not considered when making important investment and asset management decisions. The goal of this workshop is to help participants value the benefits provided by green infrastructure in their communities, improve decision-making, and recognize the potential for savings and revenue from green infrastructure's wide range of benefits.

Presenter(s):
Olga Petrov, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada
Deirdre Lynch, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada
Amir Dehkhoda, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

The objective of this workshop is to inform on characteristics, applications and impacts of biomass. Discussions will focus on advantages of introducing biomass as renewable energy source in cities and industry in terms of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction and subsequently, possible climate change solution. Attendees will learn about applications such as clean, solid and other wood waste material conversions to heat and power for use in community-based district energy systems and industry environments.

Furthermore, presentations will cover the use of biomass by-products such as biochar, with huge potential in different applications as renewable carbon materials. During the extensive discussion periods, attendees will with a help of workshop presents, develop a list of foreseen benefits and potential downsides of using biomass as a replacement of fossil fuels. This workshop will inform community and industry leaders on sustainable energy-related concepts, which they may consider to put into practice.

Presenter(s):
Ron Kato, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada
Jody Patterson, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

The BCIT Bachelor of Architectural Science program is pleased to present a project showcase of student design work, based Ecocities design principles. Our graduating class design studio, in support of the Ecocities conference theme of socially just and ecologically sustainable cities design, was asked to re-imagine how the downtown Vancouver neighborhood of the False Creek Flats might be developed if these principles were prioritized. The workshop, which will feature the outcomes of a full academic year of student research and high-performance building design work, will feature a gallery of over 50 posters and discussion with course instructors as well as students.

Moderator:
Theresa Williamson, Catalytic Communities, Brazil

Presenter(s):
Stephen Passmore, Resilience Brokers, United Kingdom
Sydney Moss, Ecocity Builders, USA
Holly Pearson, Ecocity Builders, USA

This interactive practitioner workshop will introduce session participants to a range of collaborative design approaches being introduced and piloted in Medellin, Rio de Janeiro, and beyond. The range of approaches all systematically involve multiple sectors and stakeholder groups and are applied to complex, “on-the-ground” interventions and solutions.

WORKSHOP FORMAT

PART A - CASE STUDIES: Following an initial framing presentation providing an overall of community planning approaches, with examples from Rio de Janiero of Catalytic Communities’ community-driven integration between informal and formal community planning (Theresa Williamson, CatComm), the speakers will share short presentations on case studies from Medellin, including on: (i.) the participatory engagement and use of citizen science in the development of a neighborhood sustainability plan (Sydney Moss, Ecocity Builders); (ii.) human-centered design as a methodology for innovative, community-focused problem solving to address complex urban challenges in the Moravia neighborhood, where informal houses were built on a formal landfill (Holly Pearson, Independent Planning Consultant); and (iii.) the pilot project on data integration for resilient cities for CODATA of the International Science Council, around the city-selected themes on the links between air quality, public health, urban green space and social and economic outcomes, which was conducted collaboratively with a range of actors, including the Ruta-N Medellin and the novel Medellin Data Council, an informal, voluntary group of data scientist stakeholders including ‘citizen scientists’, university researchers, civic tech entrepreneurs, community open data activists, and representatives from the municipality. (Stephen Passmore, Resilience Brokers). Followed by Q&A.

PART B - BREAKOUT DISCUSSIONS: The session’s second half will include two rotations of breakout discussion groups, which will allow participants to identify and discuss community co-design approaches in their own geographical, community and institutional contexts around the themes of the case studies (e.g., citizen science, open data and systems thinking; human-centered design (HCD) methodologies and applications to community planning, urban design / master plans; community-led integration between informal and formal community planning through strategic communications and technology). Finally, the tables will report back to the group for a final discussion.

Presenter(s):
Mary Woodbury, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

The writer’s workshop explores how ecologically oriented fiction and prose can have a positive impact on culture, building healthy micro- and macro- communities dealing with change and loss in the planet’s rapidly shifting natural landscapes and climates. The presenter, Mary Woodbury, will use visual aids and handouts to discuss historical and modern trends in environmental fiction. A further exploration into the diversity of novels and prose will break down genres, styles, topics, and place-writing. The presenter will also read short excerpts from a handful of major novels and prose.

After this introductory portion of the workshop, the audience will have a chance to participate by discussing what novels and prose have impacted them. The participants will also plan a novel or poem idea and write, minimally, an engaging first sentence. At the end will be a brief Q&A and discussion of further resources.

Presenter(s):
Stephen Seidel, Habitat for Humanity International, United States
Steve Weir, Habitat for Humanity International, United States

During this 2.5-hour workshop Habitat for Humanity will lead an interactive session that will equip participants with tools and methodologies they can deploy to develop local strategies for pursuing and helping to achieve the goals and objectives articulated in multiple global frameworks – especially the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. This session is designed to align with the Urban Design Pillar of the EcoCity Framework, and the Safe and Affordable Housing Standard in particular. Components of this workshop will include:

• Utilizing virtual platforms to build cross sectoral collaboration to improve the quality of housing practice in urban areas around the world
• Strategies for cities and local governments
• Participatory methodologies to build capacities of community residents to improve their own housing conditions
• Overview of recent “Promising Practices” – Innovative approaches to produce environmentally sustainable housing for the poor

At the end of the session, participants will articulate next steps they will take to implement the concepts discussed during the workshop.

Presenter(s):
Jeff Bloemink, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada
Ali Palizban, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

The electrical power grid can be considered as one of the largest feats of engineering ever: hundreds of thousands of assets all interconnected must function harmoniously to provide a reliable source of electric power. Availability and reliability issues can result in major reductions in economic productivity, loss of critical services, or impact on quality-of-life. Generation by burning fossil fuels; a major source of green-house gas emissions and other pollutants, is still prevalent. The adoption of renewable energy resources is a solution to this problem that can meet increasing demand or replace existing conventional generation sources. To properly integrate these resources on a large scale, many issues must be overcome. This workshop will give attendees an overview of the electrical power grid, the challenges associated with renewable integration, and the opportunities we must achieve significant penetration of renewable energy resources worldwide. The content is targeted towards those without an engineering background.

Presenter(s):
Heather Rogers, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Aodhan Newsholme, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Santiago Perez, Université De Technologie De Troyes, France

Circular Economy (CE) strategies are being developed across the globe in an effort to find creative solutions which support sustainable economic, environmental, cultural and social goals simultaneously. Through co-creation and participatory processes, participants in this workshop will critically examine case study examples of innovative CE initiatives, while exploring the concept of prosperity and their personal and professional positioning to affect change. What does it mean to be prosperous? Can prosperity lead us to social and environmental justice? How is CE affecting our current practices towards prosperity? We invite you to join us for an afternoon of engaging with big questions, being inspired by stories, challenging assumptions, and exploring personal capacity. This workshop will be facilitated by three academics practicing in the field of interdisciplinary CE research, who each bring a unique perspective to the topic.

Presenter:
George Benson, Climate Migrants and Refugees Project, Canada
As many as 200 million people may be forced to move because of climate change by 2050, according to the World Bank and IOM. Many, if not most, of these people will settle in the world’s cities. This poses an incredible challenge as cities work to simultaneously decarbonize, regain balance with nature, and build resilience to climate change’s other impacts. This interactive workshop is focused on solutions. Climate change displacement is a multi-scale, multi-causal issue, and it will all actors working together to address it. Because of Canada’s perceived leadership on the world stage on climate and refugees, there is an opportunity to leverage this experience and start to grapple with the challenge of climate displacement and resettlement in Canada.

Intended workshop outputs:
- Shared understanding of climate change displacement, including typologies and patterns within Canada
- Roadmap of immediate and mid-term actions
- Draft directions for a research agenda on climate displacement

Presenter(s):
Svend Andersen, GHG Accounting Services, Canada

The goal of this workshop is to provide participants with a foundation of knowledge that will enable them to implement sustainability initiatives in their communities, such as ecosystem restoration, community forest management, bio-matter management and wetland conservation. Participants will gain new insights and learn effective strategies to apply this knowledge for the benefit of their communities. In particular, this workshop will provide participants with the skills and practical knowledge to apply the principles and standards of carbon management, as well as Climate Lens and resilience funding requirements for the deployment of ecosystem management and restoration approaches. This skill set will then allow municipal staff to apply greenhouse gas assessment principles to the evaluation and design of ecosystem management and restoration programs.

Presenter(s):
Marilyn Hamilton, Integral City Meshworks, United Kingdom
ML Hamilton, Royal Roads University, Canada
Sean Esborn-Hargens, MetaIntegral Impact, United States

Find natural next steps to Ecocity Indicator and SDG challenges for:

1. Cities, Communities, Ecovillages, Spheres-of-Influence: Reframe indicator tracking into transformative learning for cities/organizations/ teams/collectives to demonstrate powerful and aligned systemic impacts.
2. Policy Makers: Tap into the sources of collective intelligence emerging from data mining to assist recalibration into multi-dimensional Wisdom Economies.
3. Prototyping, Modeling, Case Studies: Provide a framework for implementing Ecocity Indicators and how to apply 10 Capitals for stakeholders and periodic and integrated reporting.
4. Stakeholders wanting to make visible the impacts and exchanges between People and Operational/Infrastructural Systems.
5. CIO’s and Economic Development Offices: Gain understanding of Ecocity Framework and MetaImpact Wisdom Economy 10 Capitals: Financial, Manufactured, Natural, Cultural, Social, Knowledge, Psychological, Spiritual, Health and Human.
6. Integral City Meshworkers: Expand and align Ecocity vital signs measures for city Voices, Values, and Intelligences with the 10 Capitals of a Wisdom Economy (http://integralcity.com/voices-intelligences/)

Presenter(s):
Scott Sinclair, SES Consulting Inc., Canada

How does a simple end-of-life boiler replacement end up eliminating 95% of a building’s natural gas, 75% of it’s greenhouse gas emissions and domestic water consumption?

Vancouver City Savings Credit Union and SES Consulting invite you to a guided tour of Vancity’s head office to learn more about an award-winning energy efficiency retrofit and the potential of waste heat recovery. Join Scott Sinclair, CEO of SES Consulting, and Drew Scoular from Vancity’s Environmental Management department to learn more about how an ageing boiler was replaced with a heat-recovery chiller capturing low-grade waste heat from a data centre.

Tour Information:
• Participation Number: 10 Maximum
• Start Time/Location: Participants meet at Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building at 10:15 on Tuesday, Oct 8, 2019
• Transit: Participants will be guided to and from the Vancity Head Office via a 15-minute sky train hop costing $2.95 each way.
• Tour & Q&A: Participants will sign-in and the tour will begin approximately at 10:45
• End Time: Participants will be escorted back to the Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building at 12:15

Presenter(s):
Matthew Rockall, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

Come to this exploration of future immersive telepresence and educational possibilities using virtual reality (VR) technology. Participants will have the opportunity to try out VR and choose from a small selection of short immersive experiences. Attendees will be asked to complete a brief questionnaire aimed at capturing their impressions. We will close with an informal reflective discussion about the potential of the technology as a tool to for energy conservation, education, and participation. Given the time, space, and technological limits, there will be a limited number of timeslots to actually try the technology. However, those who don’t get a timeslot or don’t want one will still be welcome to attend, observe, and engage in the discussion.

Presenter(s):
Duane Elverum, CityStudio Vancouver, Canada
Janet Moore, CityStudio Vancouver, Canada

CityStudio Vancouver: A Transferable Model of Collaboration between Cities and Universities for Experimentation, Innovation and Civic Action. This is a presentation, tour and workshop held at CityStudio Vancouver providing an organizational overview, key studio practices, the design and dialogue process, project development, prototyping methods and project outcomes. Participants will also meet City of Vancouver staff and the CityStudio team.

Additional costs will be a 2 way bus pass - 2.75$ X 2

Presenters:
Sarah Campbell, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada
Alan Stewart, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada

Tour the British Columbia Institute of Technology’s Burnaby campus and see how we innovate and teach sustainability, and demonstrate solutions for sustainable communities. Tour our microgrid and EV charging research facility, and a number of Living Lab projects.

The Energy OASIS (Open Access to Sustainable Intermittent Sources) facility was the first campus-based microgrid in Canada (September 2014). OASIS successfully demonstrates how a campus community can: reduce their carbon footprint (demand side management), reduce costs (peak-shaving), improve energy resiliency, and achieve overall improvement of energy management.

Living Lab highlights will include: Factor Four, a project that reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 50-75% in six buildings; a wood waste-to-energy facility; our High Performance Building Lab; and the elevated lab for our Centre for Architectural Ecology.

A light lunch will be provided, please wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather.

Additional Costs: Participants will need a transit pass.

Presenter(s):
Yael Stav, Invivo Design, Canada

How can fast-paced development and densification processes coincide with our goal of producing more local food? Are the formats of community gardens and urban farms sufficient for the future Ecocity, or should we be looking at other models of urban agriculture such as vertical farming, domestic micro-farming, rooftop agriculture, or indoor gardening?

In this walk we will visit the inspiring project of Sole Food urban farm and understand its challenges to achieve both social and environmental goals. We will stop by three community gardens at the Olympic Village and False Creek South and discuss the various models of community/communal gardens and their place in the livelihood of the local communities. We will also discuss the various typologies of integrating vegetation into high density residential neighbourhoods, and look at a couple of examples from the Olympic Village area.

Additional cost: Compass Card or tickets for 2-way SkyTrain ride at $3X2

Presenter(s):
Neal Carley, Metro Vancouver, Canada
James Stiver, Metro Vancouver, Canada

Metro Vancouver is often held up as a region with successful regional planning: a compact region with a network of dense, mixed-use, vibrant urban centres focused around frequent transit. However, municipalities often struggle with the expectation of higher density development in rapid transit locations in light of rising land and construction costs and the challenging outcomes for housing affordability. Studies have shown that lower income households, particularly renters, depend more on access to transit to reach jobs, education and other amenities day-to-day, but these groups often face involuntary displacement as properties are redeveloped, or can’t find affordable rental housing options near transit.

Travel by SkyTrain to transit-oriented mixed-use neighbourhoods having recently experienced (or currently experiencing) significant redevelopment. Meet with developers and planners and learn about their experiences and the tools they use to make more transit-oriented affordable rental housing a reality. As a bonus, see the entire region from the 29th floor of Metro Vancouver’s head office.

Learning Outcomes:
• Participants will see types of development happening around rapid transit locations in Metro Vancouver.
• Participants will learn about the challenges and struggles in preserving and increasing affordable rental housing near transit.
• Participants will learn about new affordable rental housing projects and some of the tools that local governments and non-profit housing providers are using in the Metro Vancouver region.
• Participants will learn about how green infrastructure is being integrated into community design to achieve environmental and fiscal goals.

Presenter(s):
Gerben van Straaten, World of Walas, Canada

Presenter(s):
Lisa MacIntosh, DIRTT, Canada
Stacy Bozyk, Innovior Construction, Canada

Construction uses more raw materials than any other industry and fills a quarter of all landfills. DIRTT is fixing that!

DIRTT is a building process powered by technology. We’re changing the face of construction with industry-leading software and advanced manufacturing. Complete interior spaces are built faster, cleaner and more sustainably. Long term, a DIRTT interior is ready to respond to whatever the future brings.

Why divert waste when you can eliminate it? Building your space with DIRTT means virtually no on-site material waste. All DIRTT components can be disassembled and repurposed for a long life cycle. We’re a bit on the obsessive side in our drive to reduce our footprint. Need proof?

Come join us for a tour of DIRTT’s Vancouver Green Learning Center. Learn how digital construction is transforming the way we build – for the better.

Address: 341 W 6th Ave, Vancouver