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UBC Coastal Adaptation Lab (CAL) develops novel planning, design, and policy solutions for coastal adaptation based on the co-production of knowledge among researchers, decision-makers, and Indigenous communities. CAL uses collaborative approaches to transform coastal adaptation praxes by placing climate and spatial justice at the center of co-developing solutions to help communities—both human and ecological—adapt to increased flood risks and uncertain futures.

Living with Water approaches sea level rise as an opportunity to develop new ways of living with water along the South Coast of British Columbia. LWW focuses on expanding the solution space for decision-makers, planners, and communities by providing new perspectives, resources, and decision-support tools to foster the conception and implementation of innovative and collaborative coastal flood adaptation solutions.

Changing Coastlines is a resource for planners, designers, and coastal managers in the Fraser River Delta as well as audiences globally. It provides different resources in the form of interactive maps, narrative sections, and visualizations of a wide range of flood adaptation approaches that incorporate strategies for coastal environmental design based on the idea of designing with nature.

PWL Partnership is a team of landscape architects, urban designers, and site planners. Since 1976, PWL Partnership has transformed built and natural environments into vibrant and memorable destinations in ways that honour the cultural, historic and environmental attributes of place. Each PWL project is infused with research and rooted in context resulting in thoughtful, site-responsive places. We believe even the boldest landscape architectural statement needs to be practical in function, so we begin every project by considering its anticipated users and then create spaces that will be enriched by future generations. Our goal is to have every landscape be truly regenerative— to give more than it takes.

PFS Studio is a leading Canadian planning, urban design and landscape architecture firm offering consulting services nationally and internationally on a wide range of projects for both the public and private sectors. The firm has been in practice for over thirty years (formerly as Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg) and produces its award-winning work from its Vancouver studio and through a strategically allied joint enterprise in China. PFS Studio has led or been centrally involved in many large scale planning and design projects throughout Canada, the US, China and other international locations abroad. Because of its strong commitment to the Pacific Rim and, in particular, its long standing presence in China, PFS Studio works out of three allied offices in China – Shanghai, Guangzhou and Ningbo.

Space2place is a nationally recognized design studio of landscape architects, urban designers, ecologists, researchers and educators. Based in Vancouver, the company is renowned for the sense of play that characterizes its design solutions, as well as for interventions that consistently reflect a sensitivity to natural features and systems. This enlightened approach to design is built on the team’s commitment to a highly disciplined design process that delivers inventive, human-centred responses to user needs, physical constraints, natural features and the unique potential and opportunities inherent in every site.

Hapa Collaborative is a landscape architecture and urban design practice, deeply committed to the creation of connected and livable communities. Hapa is a contemporary voice for landscape architecture and a fresh alternative to traditional firms. Our studio of fifteen designers is a daily collaboration between people with different backgrounds and training, and a mix of skills and specialization. This diversity is present in our process and represented in our built work. Collectively, we design flexible and transformative environments that are inclusive, inviting, memorable, and beloved. There is no greater marker of success than watching the richness of everyday life spill out into a well-loved, thoughtfully designed space.