Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver
Urban Exhibitions
Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver

As it explores the hottest topics in Vancouver today—housing affordability, urban density, mobility, and public space—Your Future Home invites people to discover surprising facts about the city and imagine what Vancouver might become. This major exhibition engages visitors with the bold visual language and lingo of real estate advertising as it presents the visions of talented Vancouver designers about how we might design the cityscapes of the future. Throughout the run of the exhibition, visitors can deepen their experience through a series of programs, including workshops, happy hours, and debates among architectural, real estate and urban planning experts.

Future Scenarios
"Your Future Home" explored the hottest topics in Vancouver—housing, affordability, urban density, mobility, and public space—the show invited people to discover surprising facts about the city and imagine what Metro Vancouver might become. This major exhibition engaged visitors with the bold visual language and lingo of real estate advertising. In the "Future Scenarios" section of the show, talented Vancouver designers presented visions of how we might design the cityscapes of the future.
These visions spanned the full range of ideas from interpretive takes on current issues, thoughtful analysis of the results of current trends projected into the future, all the way through to provocative and radical ideas.
These imaginations shared a gallery with the "Case Studies", examples of big urban moves that shaped Vancouver in the past.
As always with the Urbanarium, our intent was to support citizens ofMetro Vancouver in imagining and working towards a better city.
Residential Density







Public Space






Transportation




Housing Affordability





Case Studies
The case studies focus on changes to Vancouver and the region that were influenced during their planning and development by the interventions of citizen activists and innovative professionals. The history of city building, and game-changing projects, is intended to be featured by the Urbanarium – in temporary exhibits, the website, and in our hoped-for permanent home.








Location: MOV
Credits
The Vancouver Urbanarium Society and Museum of Vancouver present
Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver
Museum of Vancouver
Lead Curator: Gregory Dreicer
Curatorial Associate: Jillian Povarchook
Curatorial team: Viviane Gosselin, Jane Lougheed, Wendy Nichols, Alan Kollins
Marketing: Myles Constable
Fabrication and installation: Klaus Koa and Heather Turnbull with Justine Rego, Evan Follweiter, and Nicholas Farrell
Program development: Mitra Mansour
Data Curator: Andy Yan/Bing Thom Architects and Simon Fraser University City Program
Graphic design: Cathryn Bingham, AldrichPears
Exhibition design: Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers
Design of family guide and related graphics: Mia Hansen
Chinese media representative: Joyce Yang
Media sponsors: CBC Vancouver and Vancouver is Awesome
Urbanarium Curatorial Team
Overall coordination: Scot Hein
Case Studies: Marta Farevaag
Future Scenarios: Bruce Haden
Vancouver animation coordination: Bo Helliwell
Communications: Ian Grais/Rethink
Panorama and animation content: Sam M. Khani
Project management and video editing: Elena Chernyshov
Mandarin translation: Minnie Chan
App development: Babak Manavi and Minnie Chan
The Urbanarium and Museum of Vancouver would like to thank the contributors of the future scenarios.
Broken City Lab / Contemporary Art Gallery
BTAworks
Campos Studio
Carscadden Stokes McDonald Architects
Clayton Blackman, Colin Harper, Shane Oleksiuk
DIALOG
Erick Villagomez
FubaLabo Design
Hapa Collaborative
HCMA Architecture + Design
Henriquez Partners Architects
Kyle Ball, Justine Crawford, Dorcas Yeung
LIMINAL
LWPAC
Measured Architecture
Perkins + Will
PFS Studio
SHAPE
Simcic + Uhrich Architects
Stantec Architecture
Stephanie Robb Architect
The Urbanarium and Museum of Vancouver would like to thank the individuals for their participation in the development of Your Future Home.
Justin Barski, Jane Bateman, David Beers, Mahbod Biazi, Craig Birston, Chanel Blouin, Gillian Brennan, Mark Busse, Karen Campbell, Patrick Y. Foong Chang, Thomas Daley, Frank Ducote, Carlos Fang, Megan Faulkner, Michael Flanigan, Steph Hurl, Neal LaMontagne, Derek Lee, Babak Manavi, Matthew McCauley, R.J. McCulloch, Jessika MacDonald, Sean McEwen, Darlene Marzari, Sarah Oxland, Doug Patterson, Blair Petrie, Chris Phillips, Nic Paolella, Omer Rashman, Mitchell Reardon, Andrea Smith, Erick Villagomez, Tate White, and Matthew Woodruff.
Your Future Home was made possible by generous contributions from:
AldrichPears Associates
Office of McFarland Biggar Architects + Designers
Bing Thom Architects and Simon Fraser University City Program
GeoSim Systems
Marcon Developments
Reliance Properties
John Atkin and Andy Coupland, changingvancouver.wordpress.com
Henriquez Partners Architects
Rethink
Vancouver home photographs: Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers
Vancouver model: James Bligh
Choose YOUR Vancouver photographs courtesy of Vancouver Sun; except BC Bike Race 2015, photo: Dave Silver
Vancouver: Then and Now contemporary photographs courtesy of Andy Coupland;
historic photographs courtesy of City of Vancouver Archives and Vancouver Public Library.
Virtual Vancouver 3D city model animation provided courtesy of GeoSim Systems.
Aerial photographs of Vancouver: Waite Air Photos
Digital retouching of aerial photos: The Lab—Professional Image Works
Historical artefacts: Museum of Vancouver
The Urbanarium and Museum of Vancouver are grateful for the support of Rositch Hemphill Architects, Marcon Investments Ltd., Wesgroup Properties LP, Macdonald Development Corporation, Glotman Simpson, Richard Henriquez, Henriquez Partners Architects, Rethink, Adera Development Corporation, BTY Consulting Group, Brooks Pooni Associates, PFS Studio, Bruce Haden, Andrew Gruft, Leslie Van Duzer, and Marta Farevaag.
Special thanks to the Museum of Vancouver’s institutional supporters:
City of Vancouver, BC Arts Council, and the Province of British Columbia.