Creating Places. Engaging Minds.
We are creating new ways for youth to participate in city building.
What We Do
Strategy + DesignWe are experts at engaging youth in the consultation and design phases of youth-facing projects and services for public and non-profit organizations.
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WorkshopsWe deliver city-building workshops for schools and youth organizations that focus on empathy.
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1UP ProgramWe enable high school students to lead their own community design-build projects by providing inspiration, leadership training, and project mentorship.
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News & Views
Our latest youth engagement events and stories.
One Step Forward Towards More Sustainable Cities
Recently, there have been more extreme natural disasters around the world. Many lives have been lost as a result of these disasters and people have spent billions upon billions of dollars to recover from these nightmares. It is clear that climate change is happening, and we need to address it now. This is why students from seven high schools across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) proposed ideas on designing future sustainable cities as part of a special climate action project, called “Future Cities, Future Us”.
Put the Future of Education in Your Own Hands
During the first week of October, students discovered that all TDSB schools were to strike the following Monday. At first, we panicked. Our group chats were flooded with complaints about how much school work we would be missing, how the school system was failing us, and of course, clown emojis.
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Does Christmas Kill the Environment?
It’s almost that time of year again, where ornaments and lights decorate the streets, Santa Claus and elves replace ghosts and pumpkins, wallets cry out for help, and holiday stress piles onto work. That’s right, it’s almost Christmas! But before you start making that holiday shopping list, think about how there may be something out there that might cry even harder than your wallet during this time of year.
"That's lit, fam": Tips on Authentic Youth Messaging
Communicating with youth must be genuine or risk the cringe. Have you ever left a conversation with a 15-year-old with utter confusion? Has your niece looked at you with complete disgust after you said “yasssss”?
Do you use the Urban Dictionary on a weekly basis? If you have answered ‘yes’ to the above questions, this blog is for you. |
Future Cities, Future Us. Will you be a part of building the future?
On November 7th and 8th, 2019, 1UP Toronto attended the Future Cities Canada (FCC) Summit as a part of the special climate action project “Future Cities, Future Us.” With Urban Minds, Evergreen and ENCORE Lab at OISE we hope to build a youth-led, intergenerational exchange of ideas with the goal to create a collective, actionable vision of future cities.
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