{"id":20218,"date":"2013-04-15T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=20218"},"modified":"2013-04-14T18:57:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T01:57:07","slug":"city-builder-vancouver-urbanist-janet-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2013\/04\/15\/city-builder-vancouver-urbanist-janet-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"CITY BUILDER: Vancouver urbanist Janet Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t take long to realize that Janet Moore isn\u2019t the type to accept the status quo. On the contrary, the assistant professor at Simon Fraser University\u2019s Centre for Dialogue has forged a career fostering community engagement and urban sustainability \u2014 with a focus on providing opportunities for students to engage with the city outside their school\u2019s walls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think those four years of undergrad have such potential for students because they have so much energy and enthusiasm,\u201d she says. \u201cWe don\u2019t treat students as though they have the capability of doing something in the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s precisely what Moore set out to rectify with her CityStudio Vancouver project. Co-founded with Emily Carr University assistant professor Duane Elverum, CityStudio Vancouver aims to accelerate sustainability in post-secondary education and provide students with opportunities to work on Vancouver\u2019s most challenging urban sustainability problems. That means students get course credit while also developing high-impact projects that will contribute to the City of Vancouver\u2019s Greenest City 2020 Action Plan.<\/p>\n<p>The CityStudio idea was initially presented during what Moore calls a \u201cVancouver Design Nerd Jam.\u201d Then, in the fall of 2010, it was posted on the City of Vancouver\u2019s Talk Green To Us website \u2014 a crowd-sourcing initiative in which residents propose and then vote on sustainability projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea went from the bottom of that list to the top,\u201d Moore says. \u201cThe next thing you know we got a call from Sadhu Johnston, the deputy city manager, and he said \u2018let\u2019s do this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program\u2019s first projects have already demonstrated transformative power. The Orphaned Spaces Project, for example, aims to provide citizens with increased access to nature by way of improving underutilized City property, while the Parks in Streets initiative creates temporary parks designed to inspire community members to get enthusiastic about transforming public space.<\/p>\n<p>Moore, 41, started out studying marine biology at McGill University in Montr\u00e9al. Over the course of her studies, she ended up pursuing a Master\u2019s degree in behavioural ecology on the west coast. Like countless others before her, the Ontario-born Moore fell in love with Canada\u2019s westernmost province and decided to stay put upon graduating. That in turn led her to teaching first-year biology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). After earning a PhD in curriculum studies, she shifted into implementing sustainability programs at the university level. From that day onward, she\u2019s been actively involved in a number of innovative sustainability projects in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCityStudio is one of those implementations. It\u2019s not a new idea to have interdisciplinary solutions to complex problems,\u201d she says. \u201cI think there are a lot of people \u2014 and a lot of my mentors in Vancouver \u2014 who believe this is the way, which is multiple institutions having collaborative conversations on how we need to move to sustainability in the City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s something Moore is particularly proud of: helping to raise awareness of Vancouver\u2019s Greenest City goals, their interconnectedness, and the enthusiastic response she\u2019s seen coming from participating students. \u201cWe\u2019re getting young people engaged and they can see that they can make a difference,\u201d she says. \u201cWhether or not we\u2019re moving the carbon footprint goal at this point, we\u2019ve just gotten started and we probably will choose a goal and focus that way. But we\u2019ve been a pilot project for nine months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though CityStudio Vancouver is still relatively new, Moore is already planning her next move. \u201cWe\u2019re now thinking about maybe focusing on zero-waste,\u201d she says. \u201cThat hits a lot of consumption goals and a lot of things the City can actually mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougbronsphotography.com\/\">Doug Brons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t take long to realize that Janet Moore isn\u2019t the type to accept the status quo. 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