George Brown College will be creating a testing area for robotic and other urban agricultural gardening models. The team will design this urban agricultural test bed and develop a cuisine and interactive cooking app that will instruct people on how to create meals for a sustainable urban diet based on short food supply chains.

As our cities are faced with growing climate change challenges, how will they adapt to become sustainable? This project will reimagine urban form that will supplant our current urban structures to be resilient especially if humanity is not able to solve the immediate climate change problem and if temperatures and water levels continue to rise.

Can a century old schoolhouse with significant heritage value be restored, made sustainable and accessible, and become a landmark community centre in a small rural community in Ontario?  

Looking at rural, suburban and city sites imagine a new neighborhood development of micro-homes with communal services and active transportation. Can we develop net carbon housing developments that make life affordable and offer new models for sustainable living for its inhabitants.

Deep River has a unique and rich history that includes Canada’s first nuclear complex and was home to one of Canada’s oldest Algonquin villages and possibly the only Algonquin log cabin. The opportunity to re-imagine an Indigenous lost history and reconcile a future that preserves and protects the landmark cabin, Indigenous culture and artifacts yet establishes a path for a sustainable future presents a unique opportunity.

Imagine how to tell the story of Toronto’s only student-led fine dining restaurant while adapting it to become a flexible, sustainably driven event and dining space. Redesign the system of elements connected to the culinary and hospitality experience such as the furniture, lighting, use of technology and communication strategies. Develop a proposal for a unique learning and dining experience.  

How do we design systemic tourist destinations solutions that are both sustainable and resilient for island communities that are experiencing climate change impacts and emergencies? Teams will research the Harrison Point Isolation Facility on Barbados’ Northshore as a site for sustainable and resilient growth with diversity in tourist accommodations. This site should serve as a multipurpose venue that can also support Barbados in times of crisis.

Teams will identify an appropriate site in the city of Scarborough, Ontario to develop a holistic transitional housing initiative for immigrants and refugees coming to Canada. Newcomers face specific challenges that will need to be addressed for a successful model to work. Teams will create schematics, identify key stakeholders, and create implementation and engagement strategies.

New technologies, new industries, new patterns of behaviour – the past few decades have seen remarkable changes in the workplace, the home, and public social spaces. The Future of Work is a transformational project that brings together students & faculty from design, technology & business to explore what the future of work looks like and to propose new spatial designs that respond to this new employment landscape.