Draft Guiding Principles:
- A sense of urgency regarding our current social and ecological crises
- Honouring a playful, exploratory attitude toward teaching and learning
- Innovative design, curriculum and pedagogy
- Play a supportive role for teacher education
- Recognize and explore the relationships between land, food and healthy communities
- Acknowledge the complex social and ecological history of the land, particularly in the context of colonialism
- Create an interdisciplinary and creative space for teaching, learning and research
- Contribute to UBC’s Sustainability Academic Strategy in Place and Promise to explore and exemplify sustainability on campus through viewing the ‘campus as a living laboratory’ and ‘campus as an agent of change’
- Build on and complement successes at the UBC Farm, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems by creating an urban-scale, land-based outdoor classroom
- Create an inviting space through active community participation at all stages of the project