SCARP bursts with community and enrichment in its first week back

Two students pose in front of SCARP logo

September 3, 2024

SCARP's first week has been a huge success, for any number of reasons:

  • We more than succeeded in attracting students with a keen interest in community building, social justice, and transforming tomorrow, because the students who joined us this month have a community spirit and zeal for learning that can only be described as explosively joyous.
  • We resolved this year to start transforming the way we introduce students to the School, and in partnership with the Planning Students Association and the faculty's keen minds we immediately started giving opportunities to learn about the Vancouver community from our unique lens.
  • With more program offerings than ever, we've had the pleasure of engaging undergraduate students, professional masters students, research masters students, and PhD students, each with their own lens and their own mission to plan in partnerhip and transform tomorrow. 

We decided we could only do this past week justice with a few pictures to tell the story. 

A man in a suit and glasses in front of a crowded class, more than half of which have their hands up
Faculty of Applied Science Dean James Olson asks our new students about where in the world they're coming from, to share in each other's diverse beginnings.
Several students hold pencils in front of their faces in front of a sunny bay
Hosted by SCARP alum Devon Harlos on behalf of the Planning Institute of BC, the students embark on a sketch walk around Granville Island, learning how capturing an image of a neighbourhood helps you understand space and what it is to be present in it.
Several students sketch in front of a bay, while a parody of a pirate ship approaches them with water cannons firing free
The sketch walkers get a dose of Vancouver spirit as they are intercepted by a friendly pirate ship greeting them in pirate jargon. They stayed dry!
Several students posing atop an old train car covered in graffiti, in the woods
While a huge number of our new students joined the Planning Student Association's traditional Whistler trip, a few of them explored and discovered Whistler's famous Train Wreck Trail. Urban decay and reclaimed structures represent a crucial and fascinating part of a region's story. 
A whiteboard with the prompt, "If you could live in any neighborhood in Vancouver, which? Why?"
Our favourite icebreaker questions in Urban Studies orientation: If you could live in any city in the world, which and why? If you could live in any neighbourhood in Metro Van, which and why? By putting the answers on as nametags, the students really got to know each other by perspective.
Faculty and students traverse a mysterious moss-roofed shed among a seaside mountain
Metro Vancouver takes several SCARP students and faculty on a tour of the Coquitlam Watershed, protected land and source of the region's tapwater, as they learn about the role of a healthy ecosystem in maintaining water quality.
Two students in front of a SCARP logo
On Day 1, we told our new grad students to 'follow the orange!' Once together, we told them that in the next two years and forevermore thereafter, they represent SCARP. To our students: we can't wait to see the good works and insights you'll bring to the world. Welcome!

 

We can't wait to show you what's coming next here at SCARP this year. We'll soon roll out this year's Speaker Series, this year's Mentorship Program, and so much more! 

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