Participatory City Canada
Building on the success in Barking & Dagenham, the McConnell and Participatory City Foundations, with the generous support of Employment and Social Development Canada’s Investment Readiness Program, are bringing this approach to Canada. We are integrating Participatory City findings and successes in our work with local partners and contexts to adapt and learn together in Canada’s unique participatory landscape.
Participatory Canada — a collaboration between residents, neighbourhoods, organisations and governments — is creating robust social infrastructures. In cities across Canada, we are working with communities to create spaces, programs and relationships that bring people together in ways that benefit each other and the Earth.
To function, neighbourhoods, cities and countries rely on critical basic infrastructure and services — like hospitals, roads, and waste collection.
To thrive, however, neighbourhoods, cities and countries also need robust social infrastructures.
People need friendships, relationships and collective knowledge to work together as forces for good in their own neighbourhoods. And they need the basic, accessible tools, resources and spaces to collectively create not only the products but also the networks of cooperation that are the building blocks of a healthy, sustainable society.
Participatory Canada invites residents and neighbourhoods to create practical everyday projects that build on local assets, meet local needs, and find common solutions to some of the most pressing, universal issues facing our generation.
In their first phase, Participatory Canada is developing prototype projects, relationships and spaces, with partners in Halifax, Montreal and Toronto.
The Participatory Canada initiative is co-funded by the McConnell Foundation and Employment and Social Development Canada as part of the Government of Canada’s Investment Readiness Program, and in partnership with Participatory City Foundation, UK.
Regent Park, Toronto
Every One Every Day: TO
In Regent Park, the Our Neighbourhood incubator, led by the Centre for Social Innovation, is building robust connections between residents at all socioeconomic levels.
Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Montreal
Notre voisinage
Solon is building a new network with residents of Terrasse Fleury in this Borough in the ‘Notre voisinage’ project, planning ahead for the winter with a range of cold-weather engagements!
North End, Kjipuktuk/Halifax
Every One Every Day Kjipuktuk
The Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre is inviting the local community into 30-days of practical everyday projects to connect neighbours and share across cultures. Wije’winen: Come with us.