Wall Stories
Series
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Catalyst Program
Read about the collaborative projects and initiatives of the 2022 Wall Catalyst Scholars aimed at addressing the Climate and Nature Emergency
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PWIAS Impact
Learn more about how the interdisciplinary environment at PWIAS enriches UBC and impacts society through ground-breaking research, influential public policy, artistic collaborations and award-winning publications.
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Chromatic - The Book
Read excerpts and other stories related to “Chromatic”, a new collaborative art book produced by the 2020 Wall Scholars.
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Scholar Q & A
A series of thought-provoking and inspiring short interviews with our Wall Scholars and PWIAS community members.
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The Sherpa Song Project
2022 Wall Scholars, Pasang Yangjee Sherpa and Michele Koppes have received Catalyst Collaboration Funding to support a number of activities in the Khumbu region of Nepal. In May 2023, Pasang Yangee Sherpa and Michelle Koppes along with 2 graduate research assistants will trek to the Khumbu region in Nepal…
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An Ethical Standard for Biodegradable Buddhist Flags
2022 Catalyst Wall Scholars Parisa Mehrkhodavandi, Rachel Scholes, Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, and Michelle Tseng have received funding through the PWIAS Collaboration Fund for a project that will test the degradability of a variety of Buddhist cultural prayer flags and scarves in order to help publish an ethical standard that can…
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Liberated Planet Studio Offers Free Space and Programs for Artists and Activists
2022 Catalyst Wall Scholar, Ayasha Guerin has launched the Liberated Planet Studio (LPS) located at The Dance Centre on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, otherwise known as Vancouver, BC. Supported by the…
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Green Gentrification: How Does Urban Greening Interact With Land and Housing Values?
For many living in Vancouver, urban green spaces are an important part of day-to-day life. They are the places we go to destress, reconnect, cool off, and socialize and, fortunately, they tend to be plentiful. What’s more, research has time and again demonstrated a suite of social, physical, and ecological…
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Facing Human Wrongs
As part of the Institute’s commitment to expanding the conversation around the climate and nature emergency, Wall Catalyst Student Fellows will be participating in Facing Human Wrongs an online, interdisciplinary course at UBC that addresses the ethical and practical complexities and paradoxes…
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How Climate Storytelling Helps People Navigate Complexity and Find Solutions
2022 Wall Scholar Derek Gladwin and co-author Naoko Ellis (Chemical Engineering, UBC) on how human stories are fundamental to communicating stories about climate change. Despite learning that climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists predicted, society has been slow to decrease the use of fossil…
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