We would like students to help us with optimizing CPTED and Placemaking into our urban street festival design for our 2023 street festival in alignment with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization.

The Perlin Foundation for Wellbeing is a public research foundation that works as a conversation curator and ecosystem connector. We work to establish year-round events and an annual fundraising festival that celebrate mental health, mental wellness, and those affected by mental illness. Our objective is to facilitate mental health education and science, blend with entertainment, and weave it all into a narrative, providing Calgarians with a deeper understanding of how we receive and process the world via cognition and emotion to generate a sense of wellbeing. Stacey Perlin's innovative designs, framework, and narratives, enable us to research this approach to wellness.

Outside of the formalized drawings:

• Evaluate recent successful designs, preferably in our sector,
• Identify ideal companies to eventually build our pop-up interpretive centre,
• Create a proposal to help us evolve from the street festival in 2023 to a construction in 2025,
• Create visual standards and/or templates for existing grant applications and proposals.

Ultimately, you'll work on the translation of initial research and designs into CAD/Revit drawings for our organization, including:

• Related reports to support your reasoning,
• Research to update our market assessment and competitive analysis work.

This is an opportunity to create what you'd like to see, or feel there is a need to experience, in a world that is still deciding how to talk about mental health, wellbeing, and wellness. We have a database of research and reports that are relevant to this work, in order to build trust and authority, while validating the impact of arts & culture on the public's perception of health.

An orientation will be held virtually for September 29, 2022 from 11am - 12pm. It will allow students the opportunity to learn about the work being done by the Foundation and the relevance of the project to the greater community. Otherwise, a minimum of 2 meetings are required alongside the orientation.

Students will need to set up at least one support session to discuss progress, and another to discuss their final report before submission. If they submit their reports, research, and design without review they would need to set two sessions afterwards so that they can be deemed relevant to the project objectives. Students complete their weekly check-in through email for reporting. Scheduling virtual sessions to report is possible & would need to be approved separately.

We value innovation, community, and knowledge-sharing. We can connect you to relevant organizations and leaders in the mental health ecosystem. Interested in contributing to this conversation? We'd love to hear from you.