The BMO Collaboratory

Unleashing the creativity and wisdom of community.

We believe holistic health is something to aspire to. The kind of health we’re after is co-created by communities.  

The BMO Collaboratory is an open-minded place to be curious and courageous in exploring, testing, measuring, and scaling new kinds of healthy living solutions to be more active, connected and resilient.  

Our Approach

How It Works

Past Projects & Learnings

Rentals

Our Approach

Using the power of design thinking, we partner with government, academia, industries, charities, social enterprises, non-profits, and groups to redefine community standards. Together, we empower communities to shape their own paths to being active, connected, resilient, and prosperous, on their own terms, with their own voices.

We dive deep into understanding unmet community needs and social issues. Then, we co-create, prototype, and evaluate solutions, delivering positive impacts that empower, enlighten, bring joy, inspire action, and are cherished by the very community that birthed them.

The Collaboratory will start to offer a range of services including:

  • Partnership rentals: Conducting community action based research, creating and building  physical or digital projects; engage the community’s perspective on local issues or sharing your research or knowledge dissemination with others including public lectures, events, conferences, webinars, podcasts, exhibits and interactive showcases.
  • Vivo Driven Initiatives: Partnering with others to implement multi-year funded projects that drive and measure population change across physical, social and environmental health and well-being.
  • Youth Skill Development: Offer 22nd century leadership skills training to increase the employability of young people ages 15-29Y through our Youth Ambassador Program.

How It Works

  • Convening | We bring together individuals, communities, and organizations to work on solutions for shaping healthier generations

  • Place Making | We explore, co-create, test, and bring the community’s ideas to life to deliver new kinds of healthy living solutions inside and outside of our walls with partners

  • Building Capacity | We equip and empower 21st century mindsets, skills sets and practices for people, communities, and organizations to learn, grow and thrive

  • Thought Leadership | We share and stand up and out for new ways of thinking and doing through evidence and human based insights and opinions on the issues communities’ value and are facing

Join us in unlocking healthier generations, right in your own backyard.
Contact us at collaboratory@vivo.ca to find out how you can start something amazing or work with one of our partners.

Collaboratory Rentals 

The BMO Collaboratory is an open-minded space that government, academia, businesses, charities, social enterprises, non-profits, and community organizations can use to spark and work on new ideas, convene others to listen & learn more and generate and scale initiatives around positive social impact locally and nationally. It could look like: conducting community action based research, creating physical or digital projects; engage the community’s perspective on local issues or sharing your research or knowledge dissemination with others including lectures, events, conferences, webinars, podcasts, exhibits and interactive showcases.

Our 2000 sq ft. space is open and bright and offers the following:

  • Gathering space for 40-50 people
  • Tables and chairs for 30-36 people
  • Mobile whiteboards
  • TV’s and conference abilities
  • Variety of tools for planning & tinkering sessions
  • Sink for water & supplies
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