This exhibition revisits a series of documentaries produced by the US Department of the Interior in the 1950s that portray the transformational role of infrastructure in reshaping landscapes according to American values.
Octagonal Gallery Keyword(s):
landscape, resources, nature, infrastructure, cold war, extractivism, propaganda, imaginary
1 October 2026 to 3 January 2027
Reframing the American Landscape
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This exhibition revisits a series of documentaries produced by the US Department of the Interior in the 1950s that portray the transformational role of infrastructure in reshaping landscapes according to American values.
Octagonal Gallery Keyword(s):
landscape, resources, nature, infrastructure, cold war, extractivism, propaganda, imaginary
Main Galleries
6 December 2026, 1pm to 3:30pm
Main Galleries
Every first Sunday of the month, from 11am to 12pm, we invite you and your children to dive into the world of construction games—Kapla, Mega Bloks, Lego, and many more. Together, discover how spaces are designed, transformed, and inhabited, while drawing inspiration from the objects, models, and drawings in our Collection.
6 December 2026, 11am to 12pm
Architecture Playtime
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Every first Sunday of the month, from 11am to 12pm, we invite you and your children to dive into the world of construction games—Kapla, Mega Bloks, Lego, and many more. Together, discover how spaces are designed, transformed, and inhabited, while drawing inspiration from the objects, models, and drawings in our Collection.
Home Finding
A conversation with Indigenous-led Design Fellows Sophia Francesco and Reanna McKay
Join Sophia Francesco and Reanna McKay as they discuss the projects they have undertaken through the CCA’s 2025-26 Indigenous-led Design Fellowship Program.
Shaughnessy House
5 November 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Home Finding
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Join Sophia Francesco and Reanna McKay as they discuss the projects they have undertaken through the CCA’s 2025-26 Indigenous-led Design Fellowship Program.
Shaughnessy House
Please join us for a conversation around the publication States of emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum, published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, with the author Léopold Lambert.
12 November 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
States of Emergency with Leopold Lambert
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Please join us for a conversation around the publication States of emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum, published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, with the author Léopold Lambert.
Led by architect Farida Abu-Bakare and her team at WXY, participants will work in small groups with tools that represent community priorities, municipal frameworks, and spatial trade-offs to collectively map Montréal, and test the possibilities that arise when different forms of knowledge come together.
31 October 2026, 1pm to 4pm
Community Capital: What We Build Together
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Led by architect Farida Abu-Bakare and her team at WXY, participants will work in small groups with tools that represent community priorities, municipal frameworks, and spatial trade-offs to collectively map Montréal, and test the possibilities that arise when different forms of knowledge come together.
To mark the conclusion of Everlasting, join us on Saturday 7 November for a roundtable moderated by Amanda Lickers, the exhibition curator and 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research-Creation Fellow.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
7 November 2026, 2pm to 4pm
Designing Sovereignty: Pathways of Indigenous Design Thinking
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To mark the conclusion of Everlasting, join us on Saturday 7 November for a roundtable moderated by Amanda Lickers, the exhibition curator and 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research-Creation Fellow.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Please join us for a conversation around Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s latest publication Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo, published by Inventory Press, preceded by a screening of excerpts from a documentary with the same title.
26 November 2026, 6pm to 8:30pm
Border Tuner with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
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Please join us for a conversation around Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s latest publication Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo, published by Inventory Press, preceded by a screening of excerpts from a documentary with the same title.
To initiate access to the recently donated archive, the latest iteration of the Out of the Box series is dedicated to AP218, the Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds at the CCA.
1 April 2027 to 1 March 2028
Out of the Box: Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin
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To initiate access to the recently donated archive, the latest iteration of the Out of the Box series is dedicated to AP218, the Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds at the CCA.
Neighbours
This selection of photographs from the CCA’s photography collection displayed in the Hall cases asks how and for whom we design neighbourhoods today by considering how communities use the environments they inhabit and influence what is built, not built, demolished, and preserved.
Hall cases
5 November 2026 to 28 November 2027
Neighbours
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This selection of photographs from the CCA’s photography collection displayed in the Hall cases asks how and for whom we design neighbourhoods today by considering how communities use the environments they inhabit and influence what is built, not built, demolished, and preserved.
Hall cases