Winter 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.

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

1. How might the City of Oshawa and community partners reduce the real and/or perceived risk in Oshawa’s downtown core?

2. How might the City of Oshawa encourage small community projects that would create a change that helps to develop or support the priority neighborhoods in Oshawa?

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

4. How might the City sustain and increase independence of Oshawa Youth Council?

5. How can we develop a local GDP metric strategy and how can it be used to inform economic development strategy and policy?

6. How might the City of Oshawa better engage art to tell the stories of Oshawa’s 55+ residents?

7. How might the City tell the stories of the Economic Change in Oshawa?

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