Every year, AVSSU members host various events such as the Week of Welcome, Health and Wellness weeks, Reading Week trips, and formal. In recent years, AVSSU has hosted the City Building Expo in collaboration with the Graduate Architecture, Landscape and Design Student Union (GALDSU) at Daniels and various student groups from Ryerson University.

The City Building Expo brings together professionals and students from various backgrounds and members of the public to discuss the future of city building. The expo features panel discussions, keynote presentations, and charrettes related to the expo theme. This past year, the Representative Board on AVSSU came together to launch a Design Challenge, which we hope to continue and expand in the future. Under the leadership of the Vice President Academic, the different representatives devised a challenge that incorporated aspects from their respective streams. The top ten submissions were eligible to be critiqued in front of a panel of members from the faculty as well as external critics. While third and fourth year students in the Comprehensive Stream were the main audience for the design challenge, we opened the challenge to senior students in the other streams as well. Going forward AVSSU aims to hold a design challenge each semester and expanding to allow all years to participate. Furthermore, AVSSU aims to release design prompts every month that help improve software and rendering skills, and give more variety to one’s portfolio for stream, work, or graduate school applications.

Through the events and initiatives AVSSU host, we hope to provide an environment our fellow students can flourish in. We have got an ambitious and diverse group of people on AVSSU who are passionate to see this through, but this can only happen by opting-in to AVSSU’s student society fees. Through these fees we are able to host our annual formal and events such as our breakfasts during health and wellness weeks, studio dinners, and social nights. In other words, THESE FEES HELP SUPPORT AVSSU AND REFLECTS THE LIMITS OF WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OUR FELLOW STUDENTS. THESE FEES BENEFIT YOU AND YOUR PEERS, SO OPT-IN!