Summer 2020

City Idea Lab allows post-secondary students to collaborate with faculty and city staff to design solutions to local issues through knowledge transfer, dialogue, and experimentation. Students work on unique city-identified challenge questions.

The City Idea Lab hosted the first bi-institutional course with Dr. Alyson King (Ontario Tech University) and Brandon Tozzo (Trent University Durham). The course is titled “Strengths-Based and Co-operative Community Development during Extended Crises.”

Students focused on the following challenge questions. Click on the link for more information.

1. How might the City of Oshawa’s Recreation & Culture Services team continue their mandate “to contribute to healthy communities and engaged citizens” with recreation facilities on a prolonged closure and events cancelled or postponed, or otherwise limited in capacity?

2. What can the City do to promote economic relief for important non-for-profit and charities in the community?

3. How might the City continue to address poverty and food insecurity in Oshawa after the COVID-19 pandemic eases?

4. How might the City help to alleviate or help address isolation among seniors and other vulnerable people after the COVID-19 pandemic eases?