1UP Toronto Conference 2024 - Design Jam: Call for Projects

1UP Toronto is a youth conference that brings together secondary school students across Ontario to celebrate and incubate city-building ideas.

The 2024 conference theme is “Thrive: Planning The Year-Round City”, which represents a dialogue between youth and city builders about how indoor and outdoor public spaces might bring joy, wellbeing and happiness to everyone, all year round. They will explore how to design and plan for improving the collective wellbeing of residents, young and old.

Co-hosted by Urban Minds and Plan Bold, the conference will take place on Saturday, March 23 and Sunday, March 24 from 10 AM to 5 PM.

As part of the conference, the Design Jam is a four-hour student design competition on Sunday, March 24 for a real-life urban challenge related to the conference theme. Students are assigned into teams to develop a creative solution for a case challenge provided by our Design Jam Partner. This is where you come in!