 Sociology offers students lenses for seeing the world and we can talk about social change and social inequality in class but Siobhan and I wanted to help students apply these ideas in their everyday life. So we created the tours through Vancouver neighborhoods where students had the independence and agency to take out their smartphones download the app and make choices about how they would navigate the tour. So when you pull out your phone you can listen to the stories of local neighborhood community members as you're walking through the streets where these stories happened. Siobhan and I had this experimental idea so we gathered our student RA team to help us brainstorm pretty much the entire vision where the tours would be what the themes would be about how to organize the different experiences ways of augmenting reality really rooted in what would engage students the most. I can't imagine doing this project without students on the team. People bring different perspectives and background experiences to understanding the city and how to navigate different parts of the city and so incorporating student views into that process was really important for designing the tours and picking the GPS points and figuring out what was relevant. More generally I think that when you are trying to improve teaching and learning processes it's really important to consult directly with students who are the ones that are going to be experiencing outcomes. I feel like that I haven't had the chance to work on a long-term like two-year project where I've had this much responsibility but also like freedom to put something like my heart and soul into something that I really am passionate about and it's really an exciting experience. I think in the early stages where we were trying to create the narrative in the beginning Liam and I have worked together to construct a story that was really engaging with students. We tried to use the perspective of I guess a recent graduate which is the perspective that we have and it feels like that we're not just telling people information but we're weaving a story and it's in a perspective that students can that students can relate to really well. You know I've had the chance to talk to really inspirational people you know organizers of the Women's March, the Women's Memorial March and also a protester who protested against Kinder Morgan. Normally I wouldn't have the chance to speak to these people so I think experiencing those stories first hand has been really awesome and also just working with mode of IO. It's been a challenge but also I think it's quite rewarding as well seeing a final product. Working you know with faculty has been really different in this project in that I really do feel like we're on the same level because usually when you engage with your professors it feels like a hierarchical relationship. I felt like I had a lot of freedom but with that freedom also came a lot of responsibility you know making sure that I try to meet deadlines even though there are certain challenges that we have to face and you know just like owning up to your mistakes and stuff so yeah definitely a lot more I guess pressure in a sense but also a lot more freedom.