Matthew is part of a multidisciplinary team that is currently testing a series of development typologies that were born from the Seas2City Charrette. This competition-style format explored a number of possible future scenarios for several sites around false creek, as well as collectively exploring the City owned site 'SEFC 1A' that sits between the Cambie Bridge to the West and Hinge Park to the East, on the South side of False Creek.

The site is challenged by both rising sea levels impacting the aging post-industrial foreshore as well as an increasingly impervious urban fabric on the upper slopes to the South that, during storm events, sheds enough rain water to cause present day flooding, with increased levels of flooding expected to collect on the site as the climate continues to warm.

Ecoplan and Ebbwater were involved in planning and facilitating the earlier Sea2City process along with numerous other consultants and collaborators, and continue to work closely with multiple city departments to further this iterative data-driven process. MTD and Bopp have recently been invited to join the team to contribute indicative urban design and to help develop a values based comprehensive design process that enables effective communication of the technical drivers as well as cultural and ecological considerations.

Matthew is currently working with Ecoplan to assist Ka:yu:'k't'h' / Che:k'tles7et'h' First Nations in developing a community growth strategy with increased resilience towards sea level rise and the potential risk of tsunamis. As well as helping the community evaluate potential sites to receive the building of a traditional Big House, with Scott Kemp Architects.

This multi-family residential project is a partnership between BC Housing, City of Vancouver’s Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency, and More Than A Roof Housing Society, as well as the City of Vienna, which is working with Vancouver’s municipal government to explore new materials and approaches to building affordable housing.

Matthew Thomson Design is providing Landscape Architecture services to the multi-disciplinary team led by Public Design, the project Architects.

The University of British Columbia’s Urban Innovation Research Group will study Vienna House, considered as a pilot project, to develop construction best practices and policy development.

The project is in the early stages of massing and siting, with the site currently accommodating a community garden.

MTD is working with Alanna Quock and Nicole Jahraus from Regenative Design and Melani Korver and Kamille Manoy from Taylor Architecture Group, Erik and team at Olofsson Construction Inc and Witset First Nation to create a Wellness and Healing Lodge for Youth within the Community and across Northern BC

Matthew worked with Artists Ocean Hyland and with DIALOG to assist the TSLEIL-WAUTUTH NATION in creating Design Guidelines for the Statlew District.

Matthew is currently working with the City of Kelowna Planning Department to assist them in illustrating the City’s Vision for the Northend Neighbourhood Plan.

MTD is part of a multi-disciplinary team that includes MacDonald Hagarty Architects, and is led by Ecoplan International, and working with the Nasga First Nation and the Village of Gitwinksihlkw to explore the development of a Elders’ Cultural Centre for their community.

One of four Nisga'a communities, the Village of Gitwinksihlkw, is located on the north bank of the Nass River, near the confluence with the Tseax River, in the Nass River Valley.

MTD is collaborating with Chandra Lesmeister and Public Architecture + Communication on an outdoor play environment for a new daycare facility on Vancouver Island’s University Campus.

MTD is part of a the multi-disciplinary team led by Ecoplan International and working with Lil’wat First Nation

The process is in the early stage of forming a series of framework options for a small retail/community hub.

The site itself exists between two key community amenities, the Ts'zil Learning Centre, located on the east end of the site, is an Aboriginal Post- Secondary Institute and member of the Indigenous Adult Higher Learning Association servicing the Lil'wat Nation, Mount Currie, and Pemberton Region, and as a satellite campus of Capilano University.

On the other side of the site to the West, the newer gas service station already functions as a busy community hub of sorts, with gas and retail services and the community mail boxes. Below-grade infrastructure has also been installed for future rapid charging stations.

The Friendship Trail is a multi-use off-street trail in the process of construction that will eventually connect Mount Currie to Whistler, and could be extended through these sites to the Ts’zil Learning Centre. The Trail and the region's bike-friendly scenery and diverse cross country and downhill bike trails will continue to draw visitors to the areas.

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Matthew Thomson has been working with Xenia Semeniuk and the team at Bench Studio and Odete Pinho of Ecoplan International and with the City of Kelowna to undertake a thorough community engagement process towards creating an updated Dehart Community Park Master Plan, now 12 years on since the last previous Master Plan for the park was created.

The team has recently completed the second onsite community engagement event, where they shared the Conceptual Desing that integrates input from the previous community engagement events, as well as multiple touchpoints with City Staff and interdepartmental working sessions.

The next steps will be to further integrate feed back into the design development process with increased technical and detailed design led by Bench Studio towards implementation of the completed Park Design in 2024-2025.

For more information about the process please contact Cadre Simpson at the City of Kelowna csimpson@kelowna.ca

Matthew has been working with BOP architects and P+A Landscape Architects and Wesgroup to develop the Area 3 Rezoning Process for the River District in Southeast Vancouver.

Matthew is working with David Negrin to help reimagine the future development possibilities for the Plaza of Nations site on the edge of Northeast Falsecreek in downtown Vancouver