What can be done to support Indigenous experiences of the built environment? Join landscape architect Naomi Ratte and architect Jason Surkan to learn more about the projects they are pursuing as the inaugural Indigenous-led Design Fellows at the CCA. Over the course of the week of February 20, Naomi and Jason will engage with CCA staff to create moments of learning and(...)
Shaughnessy House and online Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation, historical Métis housing
23 February 2023, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Indigenous-led Design: Methods, Practices, Communities, Experiences
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What can be done to support Indigenous experiences of the built environment? Join landscape architect Naomi Ratte and architect Jason Surkan to learn more about the projects they are pursuing as the inaugural Indigenous-led Design Fellows at the CCA. Over the course of the week of February 20, Naomi and Jason will engage with CCA staff to create moments of learning and(...)
Shaughnessy House and online Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation, historical Métis housing
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From Commodity to Community?
The planet is the client
22 December 2016
The planet is the client
Join Amina Lalor, Tin Ayala, and Ivana Molina Apaza as they discuss the projects they have undertaken through the CCA’s 2024-2025 Indigenous-led design Fellowship Program.
12 July 2025, 2pm to 3:30pm
Reciprocity: A conversation with Indigenous-led Design Fellows Ivana Molina Apaza, Tin Ayala, and Amina Lalor
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Join Amina Lalor, Tin Ayala, and Ivana Molina Apaza as they discuss the projects they have undertaken through the CCA’s 2024-2025 Indigenous-led design Fellowship Program.
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Ideas of living
Bringing together Marc Angélil and Zahra Ebrahim, the discussion explores the relationships among architecture, urban development, housing, infrastructure, governance, and community agency. Drawing on their respective work and perspectives, they examine how cities are produced beyond the intentions of architects and planners through capitalism, public policy,(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
architecture, urban development, housing, infrastructure, governance, community agency
19 November 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Who Makes the City?
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Bringing together Marc Angélil and Zahra Ebrahim, the discussion explores the relationships among architecture, urban development, housing, infrastructure, governance, and community agency. Drawing on their respective work and perspectives, they examine how cities are produced beyond the intentions of architects and planners through capitalism, public policy,(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
architecture, urban development, housing, infrastructure, governance, community agency
The CCA Research Network Summer Lecture, Spatial Justice between Wetland Communities and Data Infrastructure in Quilicura, Santiago de Chile, marks the opening of the summer research season at the CCA by welcoming the recipients of the 2023 Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship to share the work they have been doing.
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27 June 2024, 2pm to 4pm, EDT
CCA Research Network Summer Lecture
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The CCA Research Network Summer Lecture, Spatial Justice between Wetland Communities and Data Infrastructure in Quilicura, Santiago de Chile, marks the opening of the summer research season at the CCA by welcoming the recipients of the 2023 Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship to share the work they have been doing.
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Living Lands
Details of ongoing commitments and projects that share the aims of providing support and resources to Indigenous communities and researchers to interrogate the built environment, and of reshaping our own institutional understanding of the work we do as a settler institution intent on pushing architectural thinking forward.
Living Lands
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Details of ongoing commitments and projects that share the aims of providing support and resources to Indigenous communities and researchers to interrogate the built environment, and of reshaping our own institutional understanding of the work we do as a settler institution intent on pushing architectural thinking forward.
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In June, Lim will present the results of these workshops and engage with local art communities in Montréal.
Parc Baile, 1920 rue du Fort, CCA
29 August 2024, 6pm
Making Mamak in Montréal
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In June, Lim will present the results of these workshops and engage with local art communities in Montréal.
Parc Baile, 1920 rue du Fort, CCA
The inaugural Architecture as Public Concern Lecture marks the launch of the CCA Research Network, an entity that brings together alumni from almost four decades of research programs at the CCA. This annual lecture extends the theme of the Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship, which asks, in 2023, “Who is the Work For?” It also aligns with the CCA Research Network’s(...)
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Samia Henni, Jay Pather, CCA Research Network, Architecture as Public Concern, communities
26 September 2023, 2pm to 4pm
2023 Architecture as Public Concern Lecture: Who is the Work For?
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The inaugural Architecture as Public Concern Lecture marks the launch of the CCA Research Network, an entity that brings together alumni from almost four decades of research programs at the CCA. This annual lecture extends the theme of the Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship, which asks, in 2023, “Who is the Work For?” It also aligns with the CCA Research Network’s(...)
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Samia Henni, Jay Pather, CCA Research Network, Architecture as Public Concern, communities
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.
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