Creating Places. Engaging Minds.

​We are creating new ways for youth to participate in city building.

What We Do

​Strategy + Design

We 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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Workshops

We deliver city-building workshops for schools and youth organizations that focus on empathy.
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1UP Program

We 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.

1UP Networking Social

Calling all architects, urban planners, and community engagement professionals!

Become a 1UP Mentor and help high school students in the GTA design and build community projects that tackle challenges like underused public space, road safety, and mental health. Come learn more about what it’s like to be a mentor at our 1UP networking social with past mentors and students on Sunday, August 18 at 4:00PM to 6:30PM at Perkins+Will.

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Forget Age. Treat Youth As Equals When It Comes to City Building

​Youth are residents of cities today and stewards of our cities tomorrow. In the landscape of city-building discourse, youth voices are frequently lost to engagement processes that are intimidating, inaccessible, and unclear. In other cases, youth voices are simply not sought after based on assumptions that youth do not want to participate and that even if they did, their feedback is too unrealistic to ever be implemented.

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Students transform school vestibule into green space

Project Plant is a community design-build project by 1UP Earl Haig chapter. Their goal was to transform their school's music wing vestibule into a meaningful space for students to enjoy and destress.

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Is youth engagement just a PR stunt?

The short answer is yes, but we can change that.

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#WouldYouRatherMC

A physical-digital interactive art experience ​that brings people together
​to discuss the future of Markham Centre.

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The 8 Rules of Youth Engagement

1. Welcome youth as co-creators.
Acknowledge their capabilities as critical thinkers and doers. Engaging them once is not enough, but actively engaging them as problem solvers throughout the duration of your project will provide added value.

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Interested in working with us? Let's chat.

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