Making Mamak is a toolkit for all cultural workers, social organizers, and community members. The toolkit is devised to help commit to local, community-based forms of creating and gathering. Learning from arts collectives in the urban centres of Malaysia, one can develop kinships with one’s own community, formulate mutual aid, appropriate collective spaces, and start(...)
2024
Making Mamak: Collective Ecologies of Urban Space
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Making Mamak is a toolkit for all cultural workers, social organizers, and community members. The toolkit is devised to help commit to local, community-based forms of creating and gathering. Learning from arts collectives in the urban centres of Malaysia, one can develop kinships with one’s own community, formulate mutual aid, appropriate collective spaces, and start(...)
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Making Mamak is a toolkit for all cultural workers, social organizers, and community members. The toolkit is devised to help commit to local, community-based forms of creating and gathering. Learning from arts collectives in the urban centres of Malaysia, one can develop kinships with one’s own community, formulate mutual aid, appropriate collective spaces, and start grounded social movements.
Making Mamak: Collective Ecologies of Urban Space
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Making Mamak is a toolkit for all cultural workers, social organizers, and community members. The toolkit is devised to help commit to local, community-based forms of creating and gathering. Learning from arts collectives in the urban centres of Malaysia, one can develop kinships with one’s own community, formulate mutual aid, appropriate collective spaces, and start grounded social movements.
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German artist Dieter Appelt presents a major work commissioned by the CCA and inspired by the late nineteenth-century Forth Rail Bridge near Edinburgh, Scotland. Dieter Appelt: Forth Bridge — Cinema. Metric Space is the second of four exhibitions in the Tangent series, which brings contemporary artists into dialogue with the CCA Collection and results in newly(...)
Octagonal gallery
9 March 2005 to 22 May 2005
Dieter Appelt: Forth Bridge - Cinema. Metric Space
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German artist Dieter Appelt presents a major work commissioned by the CCA and inspired by the late nineteenth-century Forth Rail Bridge near Edinburgh, Scotland. Dieter Appelt: Forth Bridge — Cinema. Metric Space is the second of four exhibitions in the Tangent series, which brings contemporary artists into dialogue with the CCA Collection and results in newly(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Dan Handel, Francesco Garutti, Émilie Retailleau, carpet, hotel, megastructure, hospitality, Assaf Evron
13 September 2021
A deliberate bombardment of the senses
Dan Handel interviewed by Francesco Garutti and Émilie Retailleau on the strategies behind the deployment of carpets in the deep spaces of hospitality
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Playing it Safe
Keep Safe
Keep Safe, playgrounds, safety, risk, regulation, public space, control, contemporary playground design,
8 July 2024
Playing it Safe
Delara Rahim, Francisco Brown, Jimmy Pan, and Angie Door on the creation of play subjects and playgrounds
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Echosystems
This public workshop aims to identify and document the distinct politics of the neighbourhood around the Canadian Centre for Architecture through an alternative methodology. Moderated by Léopold Lambert of Archipelago, this day of intensive reflection and polyphonic creation will address issues of the city through sound recordings. In response to distinct modes of(...)
5 March 2016
Echosystems
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This public workshop aims to identify and document the distinct politics of the neighbourhood around the Canadian Centre for Architecture through an alternative methodology. Moderated by Léopold Lambert of Archipelago, this day of intensive reflection and polyphonic creation will address issues of the city through sound recordings. In response to distinct modes of(...)
LAWS
Conceived as research-on-display, LAWS is a non-linear exploration of historical and contemporary case studies drawn from the CCA Collection and new commissions centred on Canadian contexts. Archival documents, manuals, drawings, and photography testify to the ever-evolving nature of space-making and policymaking, while workshop, studio, and assembly spaces serve as(...)
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law, laws, environment, activism, case studies, space-making, policymaking, negotiation, spatial agency, housing, social justice, Canada
18 March 2027 to 17 October 2027
LAWS
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Conceived as research-on-display, LAWS is a non-linear exploration of historical and contemporary case studies drawn from the CCA Collection and new commissions centred on Canadian contexts. Archival documents, manuals, drawings, and photography testify to the ever-evolving nature of space-making and policymaking, while workshop, studio, and assembly spaces serve as(...)
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
law, laws, environment, activism, case studies, space-making, policymaking, negotiation, spatial agency, housing, social justice, Canada
Will Alsop: Street Creatures
British architect Will Alsop discusses his projects, working methods, and influences. The lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Will Alsop: OCAD, an Urban Manifesto (2008), which reveals the architect’s design process through preparatory paintings, sketches, and models for the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art Design (OCAD) in(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
2 October 2008
Will Alsop: Street Creatures
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British architect Will Alsop discusses his projects, working methods, and influences. The lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Will Alsop: OCAD, an Urban Manifesto (2008), which reveals the architect’s design process through preparatory paintings, sketches, and models for the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art Design (OCAD) in(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Neighbours at Altitude
Talking Pictures, a Circuit
In an nine-part circuit of installations and interventions travelling throughout the spaces of the CCA, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, and Peter Sealy invite us to reflect on photography’s critical and creative relationship with architecture. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, photography, photographs, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, Peter Sealy
14 October 2017, 4pm
Talking Pictures, a Circuit
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In an nine-part circuit of installations and interventions travelling throughout the spaces of the CCA, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, and Peter Sealy invite us to reflect on photography’s critical and creative relationship with architecture. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)