Teams will collaboratively present the research results of their one-day Worldbuilding Design Challenge followed by light refreshments and food.
 
What is the Worldbuilding Design Challenge?
 
Part of Design Vancouver Festival, Arts Umbrella’s World Building Design Challenge is an intensive one-day workshop that gives young creatives the keys to their own future by letting them re-design their world from the ground up. 
 
This year’s theme, Kid Island, explores the future of Granville Island and invites young creatives ages 7-19 to reimagine it as a space designed around children and youth in our city. 
 
Led by experienced worldbuilders - filmmaker Paisley Smith and architect Graham Smith - the design process will be rooted in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and guided by a spirit of playfulness and curiosity. 
 
This workshop will use the design-thinking process of worldbuilding to discover what structures currently exist in our culture and environment, so that we might challenge them and redesign what is possible. It will introduce participants to hands-on design thinking and the storytelling tool of worldbuilding.