Sat, Jul 15
|GNS Pemberton Woods Campus
Day 1, Campus Renewal Design Workshop
In this creative and interactive exercise spanning two days, interested members of the community will be invited to join forces with architects, urban designers, landscape architects and planners to help revitalize the long term renewal plan for PW.
Time & Location
Jul 15, 2023, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
GNS Pemberton Woods Campus, Pemberton Woods Campus, 781 Richmond Ave, Victoria, BC V8S 3Z2, Canada
About The Event
You will hear more about the emerging values and vision for the school that have been discussed to date. Through creative and interactive exercises offered through the lens of the 2023 context, we will listen to your ideas on a range of topics that will help shape the PW Campus plan for the decades to come.
10:00-11:30am - Welcome and Background Session
In this first session, we’ll share and hear from community leaders about their hopes and goals. We’ll have some inspirational conversations about PW long term needs and hear from our team about some exciting projects and ideas that are guiding our work.
11:30am - Tours of Pemberton Woods
Take a tour of Pemberton Woods and Gonzales Neighbourhood edges.
12:00pm - Lunch
A bagged lunch will be available to workshop participants.
12:30-3:00pm - Interactive Design Workshops/ Youth Workshop
Beginning at 12:30 - 3:00, we’ll be holding a series of interactive design workshops with architects, landscape designers and urban planners. You can join the conversation and see real-time design sketches of your ideas on school needs, green space, transportation, housing, community spaces come to life. Join us for some or all of this session. You can talk, draw or have others draw and sketch your ideas.
2:30-4:00pm - Pin–up and Discussion
We’ll pin up the various designs and ideas that emerged and ask each team to identify the strongest and most viable ideas given the opportunities and constraints we have.