Winter 2019

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.

Students explored the following challenge questions. Click on each question for an overview of the innovative solutions.

1. How might the City become a more welcoming community for newcomers and the diverse student population?

2. How might the City engage residents to help build community pride?

3. How might the City design a Wi-Fi network in the downtown?

4. How might the City engage art to tell the stories of Oshawa’s residents?

5. How might the City better map its cultural assets?

6. How might the City engage youth in priority neighborhoods?

7. How might the City address various aspects of risk?

8. Implementation: Mentorship Program