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Tickets here! (limited capacity)

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This was the first NeighbourMaker event: Campfire Booth! Event description below: 

S'mores! Night Sky Projections! Crackling "Campfire"  The Museum of Vancouver presents NeighbourMaker, a public program that supports and encourages artists, activists, students, designers to design experiences in public spaces to build social connected-ness. Daytime Campfire Booth@ Yaletown Farmers Market The Campfire Booth is an all-ages, interactive campfire-like experience taking place within Tin Can Studio's Streamline trailer mobile project space. The Campfire Booth is a fun and free activity where folks can enjoy a faux fire pit featuring the sounds and trappings of a real one. It will feature the friendly feel, the crackling sounds and the campfire songs played all day. This experience is a great fit for children and families as they "roast" marshmallows, snack on s’mores and feel the warmth.  *Campfire Project is a CityStudio student created initiative that aims to introduce a pilot firepit this summer to make the case for public firepits on select Vancouver beaches.  **NeighbourMaker is made possible through support from the Vancouver Foundation and bazinga! Additional support provided by VIVA Vancouver and CityStudio.

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For now, we are keeping the cover design of the NeighbourMaker Catalogue a secret. We will reveal it soon. We promise! 

For now, above is the size and colour scheme. Yes pink! 

Book Launch Release Date: Thursday Sept 4th, 7pm! @ The Museum of Vancouver - Join us for extremely inspiring speakers, chats, and demonstrations of what NeighbourMaking looks like! We will be roasting S'mores btw... more info on the event soon. Until then, please contact asinclair@museumofvancouver.ca to pre-order your copy. 

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More great photography from the Campfire Project at the Museum of Vancouver. Thanks to William Selviz. 

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The Museum of Vancouver presents NeighbourMaker, a public program and design challenge that supports and encourages artists, activists, students, designers and members of the public to design experiences in public spaces to help build social connectedness. NeighbourMaker: Let’s Make Neighbours! Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Location: Offsite at Main Street Station Farmers Market | 1100 Block Station Street along Thornton Park, across from the VIA Rail Station and near the Main Street-Science World Skytrain Station Time: 3:00pm-7:00pm Admission: Free Peeple Panorama is about engaging people with ideas about their future community through making. The concept of a 3-way mirror is the starting point for creating an immersive installation to allow the public to engage with their immediate lived surroundings through design. Peeple Panorama makes the invisible visible, and reveals what people would like to see in their neighbourhoods using panorama building tools, markers, and a little imagination. No mad drawing skills are necessary. Stick figures welcome! Peeple Panorama is a sister project to Peeple. Peeple establishes visual understandings of public spaces slated for significant changes, and was originally designed for the City of Vancouver. NeighbourMaker is made possible through support from the Vancouver Foundation and bazinga! Additional support provided by VIVA Vancouver and CityStudio.

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The French Quarter Parklet is the first parklet to be built under the new VIVA Vancouver Pilot Parklet program. The project was initiated by Kathleen Corey while a student intern at PWL Partnership, and soon evolved into a community partnership between designers, carpenters, and local residents. Given its name by Car Free Day, its shape by a Park(ing) Day installation, and its public introduction by a collaboration with Livable Laneways, the new space spans two parking stalls, and bridges the boulevard to the sidewalk. Big Picture, Small Space is a public intervention to celebrate this more permanent and formal phase!

Date: Sunday, June 8, 2014

Location: The French Quarter Parklet* on 21st Avenue at Main Street Time: 1:00pm-4:00pm Admission: Free

This all-ages event is an exciting, creative opportunity to engage the community in an afternoon with new takes on fostering dialogue, chalk trails, and live local music. Local artist Sophia Sengsuriya will write on picture frames the thoughts expressed by neighbours about their neighbourhood and event experience. While these activities take place, local musicians will play for those gathered at The French Quarter Parklet. And there will be large scale chalk drawing for everyone!

This public intervention is a fun, experimental process of repurposing simple resources to program the space and engage the community in rethinking the role our streets play in the public realm. 

NeighbourMaker is made possible through support from the Vancouver Foundation and bazinga! Additional support provided by VIVA Vancouver and CityStudio.

*Mini-FAQ

Q: What is a Parklet?

A: Parklets transform on-street parking into places for people to sit, relax, and enjoy the city. Traditionally, parklets consist of an extended platform over a parking space and can include benches, tables, chairs, landscaping, and bike parking.

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Museum of Vancouver presents the first #neighbourmaker supported project: #campfireproject @museumofvan - thanks to CityStudio, bazinga!, and the Vancouver Foundation for support! fb link. For more info about #neighbourmaker contact asinclair@museumofvancouver.ca

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The Museum of Vancouver is excited to launch the NeighbourMaker Program. Read below for information on the Project Assistance Award.

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The NeighbourMaker Project Assistance Award

The NeighbourMaker Project Assistance Award

Presented by the Museum of Vancouver

Attention University Student Artists, Designers, and Experimentalists!

The NeighbourMaker Project Assistance Award

The Museum of Vancouver loves to connect people. We also like to engage people with ideas about the city. NeighbourMaker takes this love of Vancouver and its people to the streets!

NeighbourMaker is a combination public program & design challenge that encourages university students to design an intervention or experiment in a public or semi-public space in the city to help build social connectedness. 

University students are encouraged to submit their plans that make the city more creative, connected and neighbourly. We’re excited to support student-led projects that build social connectedness.

Lets make Neighbours.

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, April 4th 2014

Eligibility

This year we are happy to put this call out to students from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and CityStudio.

Resources for Your Project

Location: We have partnered with the Tin Can Studio in order to provide you with a space to stage your project at the Yaletown Farmers Market on May 8th. The “Tin Can Studio” is a mobile project space built into a modified Air Stream Trailer (see layout diagram below). We are also working with VIVA Vancouver in order to assist you in installing your project at Bute and Davie.

Financial: There is a maximum $500 available per student project. These funds are intended to cover material and transportation costs. Students are required to keep all receipts for reimbursement.

Types of Projects Considered

Market Option: Propose a public intervention project that utilizes the Tin Can Studio as a place to stage your project at the Yaletown Farmers Market May 8th 2-6pm.

Bute Plaza Option: Propose a public intervention at Bute Plaza @Davie St. between May 1st - June 1st 2014. VIVA Vancouver can provide support with this location.  

Your Selection: Propose a public intervention project at a site of your choosing between May 1st - June 1st 2014. Museum of Vancouver will provide limited support as needed.

Examples of Projects we like: 

Haircuts by Children, Before I Die, St. George Library, Gather Around.

How to Apply

Please submit the following by Friday April 4th, 4:30pm.

1.  Date, time and place of your intervention.

2.  Images, photos, designs, sketches of project ideas & iterations.

3.  ”Tweetable” description of project (144 characters)

4.  Short description of project (250 words max).

5.  Budget.

6.  Pertinent logistical information, list of materials.

7.  Team member names, mailing addresses, email addresses, class name.

8.  Any additional supporting pdfs, docs, images, background materials.

9.  Please list what support required from Museum of Vancouver.

Submitting Your Application

Applications and attachments can be emailed to asinclair@museumofvancouver.ca with “NeighbourMaker” in the subject line. Only short listed artists will be contacted.

Assessment

A selection process involving a jury selected from Museum of Vancouver, VIVA Vancouver and Bazinga staff will determine the projects chosen. The assessment will be based on how well each project addresses issues of social isolation and disconnection via design, interventions and public art.

Publication

All projects submitted will be considered for publication in the forthcoming NeighbourMaker Catalogue Spring 2014.

Public Forum

Selected projects are required to present their work at the July 17th Public Forum at the Museum of Vancouver. This is a chance to share your work with Vancouver designers, public space activists, COV urban planners and decision-makers!

Our Supporters

The Museum of Vancouver and the NeighbourMaker team is thankful for the financial support of the Vancouver Foundation and Bazinga! Also special thanks goes to Prof. Duane Elverum, Prof. Janet Moore, Prof. Erika Balcombe, Prof. Erick Villagomez, Prof. Justin Langolis, Krisztina Kassay, Jennifer Sheel P.Eng, The Vancouver Farmers Market, Tin Can Studio and CocoMaps. 

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Floor Plan for Tin Can Studio - Market Option.

Students are tasked with imagining how their project can utilize the Tin Can Studio as a catalyst in order to make instant Neighbours out of Vancouverites who happen by the Yaletown Farmers Market May 8th 2014: 2-6pm.