URD1505H S
Instructor: Lorne Cappe
Meeting Section: L9101
Synchronous
Wednesday, 12:00PM - 3:00PM

This course will be delivered in a seminar format and will familiarize students with the critical role that community consultation plays in contemporary city-building and urban design. Students will develop an understanding, learn methodologies and acquire a keen appreciation for well-designed and implemented community consultation processes. Successful community consultations can lead to more successful design outcomes for residents as well as public and private proponents of development and place-making projects.

The course focuses on selected precedents in community consultation across a variety of scales, from large housing revitalization to individual development projects, spanning from the mid-twentieth century to the present, and from local to global examples. A year after Canada 150, Canadian’s have entered the Truth and Reconciliation process with the Canada’s Indigenous peoples. In this course, an additional emphasis will be placed on consultation with Indigenous communities.

Students will have the opportunity to attend ongoing community meetings and to research precedents that have occurred in Toronto as well as other cities. The course will have a reading list that consists of academic sources as well as practical documents created by experts in the field.

Students will hear from guest speakers including: architects, planners and community engagement specialists as well as community members that have been involved with comprehensive consultation processes. Course requirements include:

• Attendance and participation in a current community consultation
• Participation in seminar discussions
• Student presentations of seminar readings
• In-class presentations & 1200 word paper of a community consultation case study

The seminar is open to graduate students from all programs at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design as well as to graduate students in the Department of Geography and Planning, Program in Planning pursuing an Urban Design specialization. The course is open to students in other faculties and programs at the University of Toronto subject to the availability of space and the instructor’s permission.