Vancouver Public Space Network
On June 26, 2010, a seemingly spontaneous gathering of people took to the streets of Vancouver with drumsticks, spoons, keys and hands, using the city’s surfaces as a massive drum to make music against the urban landscape.
With the video Stick it to the Streets, the Vancouver Public Space Network (VPSN) asks a playful question: how...
Beat Nation and grunt gallery
Hip hop has been used around the world as a tool for empowerment and expression. In Vancouver, the unceded territory of Coast Salish peoples is a meeting ground for many different urban aboriginal youth, and, since the early 1990s, hip hop as activism has been a driving force in aboriginal expression. Indigenous cultures and identities...
ParkLane Homes and HB Lanarc
The East Fraserlands neighbourhood development is situated on a 129-acre waterfront site in the southeast corner of Vancouver on the Fraser River, an important section of the Pacific Flyway for migrating birds along the west coast. As part of the master plan for the extensive development of this region over the next twenty years, a...
