SPECIAL EDITION CHARRETTE 2021

A statue of John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister, stood at Montreal’s Place du Canada for over a century before it was toppled in summer 2020 following the murder of George Floyd. The eighteen-metre-tall structure memorialized a political career marked by many racist acts including the implementation of Indian Residential Schools and the imposition of a head tax on Chinese immigrants. This year’s special edition of the CCA Charrette invites proposals for temporary interventions to address the emptied plinth of the Macdonald monument and/or the site around it, and to challenge the idea of permanence and public memory. Interventions can speak to Macdonald's legacy in particular or to issues around racial justice more broadly, and can employ architectural approaches including time-based and performance media. Proposals must consider the positionality of the team: how do you justify your intervention? For whom do you claim to speak?
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IMPORTANT DATES

Friday, 29 October 5PM – Thursday, 11 November, 3PM (EST):
 Registration period

Thursday, 11 November, 6:30PM (EST):
 Online launch


To attend, please register here

Monday, 15 November, 11AM (EST):
 Submission Deadline

Friday, 19 November, 6:30PM (EST):
 Awards Ceremony online

To attend, please register here

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REGISTRATION

SUBMISSION

Contact: charrette@cca.qc.ca

This year’s edition of the Charrette is organized in collaboration with the interuniversity research group After Macdonald.