Report
During June an July of 2006, Candy partcipated in Global Studio, a program where international interdisciplinary students, academics, and professionals come together to collaborate on community-based projects.
Candy, along with 13 fellow architecture and urban planning students and faculty, worked closely with the organization VANDU, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. Forced out of their single-room-occupancies during the day, many local residents and recovering drug addicts are left to roam the streets and alleys of the Downtown Eastside all day. Bursting with unkempt vacant lots, the neighborhoood has the least amount of green space in the City and the greatest demand for public facilities.
To help bring attention to this issue, Candy's group and members of VANDU staged a public intervention. Inspired by Rebar's Park(ing) project, the group set up an urban oasis in two street parking spaces in front of a vacant lot on Hastings Street. They presented preliminary ideas for park spaces, archived case studies of successful community gardens, gathered comments from local residents, were interviewed by local television channels, and delivered a final package with petition signatures to the mayor. She also created a pamphlet for female drug addicts. |
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| Setting up for the event |
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| The studio |
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