Concordia University
IL-66: Innovation B
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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1.00 / 1.00 |
Cassandra
Lamontagne Sustainability Coordinator Office of Sustainability |
Name of the innovative outcome, program, or initiative:
Does the innovation represent a new, extraordinary, unique, ground-breaking, or uncommon outcome, program, or initiative that addresses a sustainability challenge and is not covered by an existing credit?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the innovation:
The Concordia University Centre for Creative Reuse was founded by a Fine Arts student as part of their graduate research. The student reached out to Facilities Management to determine whether it would be viable to establish a centre for creative reuse at Concordia capable of diverting materials from inside Concordia’s waste-stream and offering them to the general community free of cost. Together, they applied for and secured funding to begin this project at Concordia. Since its launch in 2017, nearly each each year of the program the project has hosted one student artist-in-residence, supervised 6 interns, and engaged 25 dedicated student volunteers. Additionally, over 35 metric tons have been diverted from the landfill; over 18,000 people have used the centre; and over $380,000 in community spending has been saved. CUCCR has become a safe space for community learning, making, and material reuse. To date, it is still the only creative reuse centre in a Canadian university.
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