Community Explorations 3

The Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre, partner organization of this project, is an organization that provides a range of social supports and services with the aim of enabling the empowerment of residents, community resilience, and inclusion. The Centre has several activities that try to address food insecurity and well-being at the local level: a food bank, Ottawa Community Food Partnership, Social Harvest, and Good Food Box, among others. Notwithstanding, the growing food insecurity, poverty, and social isolation trends resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic catalyze the need for the Centre to implement more and different types of efforts.

This is an action-based research project where students will engage in researching and understanding the current context, societal changes, the characteristics of the user groups and their interests, needs, and dreams, and engage in critical thinking, radical innovation and speculation. The students will produce design concepts to visualize and address their focused research question.