Community Ideation Jam 2024

With the success of the CIJ 2024 event, CECE is open to the Community Ideation Jam event becoming an annual event for the UFV community and looks to introduce interesting themes for students through partnership with internal and external community partners.

Calling all UFV faculty, staff, students, alumni, employers, and community partners! Interested in partnering on providing the ideation prompt for the next Community Ideation Jam? Reach out to cece@ufv.ca with your idea!

Community Ideation Jam - 2024

During National Career Month in November 2024, CECE hosted UFV's first-ever Community Ideation Jam, a work-integrated learning event held on November 12 and 13 during Fall Reading Break. The event, themed Envision 2074 in celebration of UFV's 50^th anniversary, brought together 41 students from various disciplines for a 24-hour challenge to reimagine the future UFV community. Drawing on their lived experiences and guided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, students explored innovative ideas for what community engagement could look like over the next 50 years. Team ideations ranged from campus infrastructure and amenities to community programming and UFV-specific digital applications.

See event highlights here on the Community Ideation Jam 2024 UFV Flickr Album.

Students saw this opportunity as having:

Shared their voice care in making a difference within their community by transforming lives for the present and future of UFV.
Connected their education experience to guide their ideation while learning about special topics from guest speakers who played important roles in different areas of UFV.
Felt a sense of community by meeting new people, making new connections, and bridging their education to real world applications.

The Community Ideation Jam: Envision 2074 event was funded by Wayble and sponsored by Campus Communities.

Thank You

To our guest speakers
- Gary Morrison (CEO, Campus Communities)
- Jennifer Martel (Manager, Sustainability)
- Sundeep Hans (Director, EDI)
- Paul Brammer (Director, Xwexwílmexwawt)
To our mentors
- Office of Sustainability
- Co-op Coordinators from CECE
- Gary Fehr (AVP, Research and Graduate Studies)
To our panelists
- Liana Thompson (ED, Student Academic Affairs)
- Sundeep Hans (Director, EDI)
- Laura Authier (AVP, Community Engagement)

Student Ideations 2024

Are you a UFV faculty, staff, employer, or community partner interested in connecting to the students who came up with these ideations? Contact CECE and we can connect you to the students to learn more about their projects!

First Place

Presentation screenshot

Mood – An Escape in Plan Sight

Inspired by concept of speakeasies, a café managed by students from cooking to events, fostering sense of ownership and community

Aastha Anand, Alisha Merchant, Angelina Joseph, Rachel Gupta