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Posted on Monday, September 14, 2020 08:55 PM
How is success of a CityStudio project defined? It looks different for each project. CityStudio Durham is founded on principles of collaboration and co-creation and through our projects we celebrate partnership, new ideas, experimentation, creation of knowledge, collection of data and positive community.
This is our pilot year. If you have participated in a CityStudio Durham collaboration or would like to in the future we would love to hear your feedback. Below are a few of our recent stories of...
Ready to Learn: Improving Children’s Development and Readiness for School
Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2023 03:17 PM
Through CityStudio Durham and the Regional Municipality of Durham’s Children’s Services Division, students from Ontario Tech University have wrapped up another successful partnership to help improve the developmental outcomes of children in Durham Region. Dr. Brenda Jacobs’ “Holistic Learning in Early Childhood Education” class used the Durham Region Early Development Instrument (EDI) dashboard to learn about areas of vulnerability and created digital products and tools that can build the...
Improving Children’s Development and Readiness for School through Data and Knowledge Mobilization Copy
Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 10:20 AM
Project status: completed
Durham College students help parents and educators across the Region
Durham College’s Early Childhood Education (ECE) students have wrapped up their final year placement project with CityStudio Durham. The project not only helped educators and parents across the Region, it helped college students with their future careers as well.
“The (ECE) program helped us learn the fundamentals of becoming amazing registered early childhood educators. But this project made us think,...
Maturing our Innovation Strategy at Durham Region Copy
Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 09:47 AM
Project status: completed
The Innovation and Research Team in the Strategic Initiatives Division in the Chief Administrative Officer’s (CAO) office has undergone a revise and refresh of our approach to supporting innovation and research at the Regional Municipality of Durham. We identified some strategic areas for maturing our innovation capabilities. Through this project we performed jurisdictional scans and literature research to map emerging trends and established practices and help support an...
Inclusive Design and Municipal Innovation Processes Copy
Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 09:47 AM
Project status: completed
The goal of this project was to understand how we might integrate accessibility and inclusive design considerations into Durham Region’s innovation process. This included answering questions such as:
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What are the principles of accessible and inclusive design?
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What are the practical implications of these principles to the municipal innovation process?
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How might innovation tools be made inclusive?
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How might diverse perspectives be captured throughout the innovation process?
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