While we wait for the climate crisis to convince us that it is real, what is the right attitude to take? Should we panic, start saving food, or just lie down and try to relax? Join us in a temporary tv studio for a live recording of diverse thinkers presenting their work and reflecting on how it suggests different ways forward. To mark the opening of It’s All Happening(...)
16 November 2016
Hostile or docile?
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While we wait for the climate crisis to convince us that it is real, what is the right attitude to take? Should we panic, start saving food, or just lie down and try to relax? Join us in a temporary tv studio for a live recording of diverse thinkers presenting their work and reflecting on how it suggests different ways forward. To mark the opening of It’s All Happening(...)
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Records of Protest
31 March 2025
Records of Protest
Irene Chin, Lisa Belabed, Auden Young Tura, Laura Aparicio Llorente, and Megan Marin demonstrate how architects engage with crises of their time
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Join us in Toronto for a conversation between writer and activist Naomi Klein and CCA Director Mirko Zardini that will address conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural environment.” What role will architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, and activists play in finding ways forward in the face of the climate crisis? This conversation(...)
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
17 October 2016, 6:30pm
What Comes After the Environment?
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Join us in Toronto for a conversation between writer and activist Naomi Klein and CCA Director Mirko Zardini that will address conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural environment.” What role will architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, and activists play in finding ways forward in the face of the climate crisis? This conversation(...)
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
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The planet is the client
Learning from... Athens
Konstantinos Pantazis, co-founder of Point Supreme, discusses the work of the Athens-based practice. The talk focuses on ways to challenge the current crisis condition, proactive proposals for improving the city, addressing the collective unconscious, and building without money. It presents the processes behind examples from the two opposite ends of Point Supreme’s(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
7 April 2016, 6pm
Learning from... Athens
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Konstantinos Pantazis, co-founder of Point Supreme, discusses the work of the Athens-based practice. The talk focuses on ways to challenge the current crisis condition, proactive proposals for improving the city, addressing the collective unconscious, and building without money. It presents the processes behind examples from the two opposite ends of Point Supreme’s(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Madrid
In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, Spain is now paying for its lack of urban policy, particularly in the construction industry. The credit crunch curbed the frenzy of construction and left behind a vast territory of incomplete urban spaces. Architect, editor, and architectural curator Javier Arpa Fernández presents a lecture reflecting on how alternative(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
4 December 2014 , 6pm
Learning from... Madrid
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In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, Spain is now paying for its lack of urban policy, particularly in the construction industry. The credit crunch curbed the frenzy of construction and left behind a vast territory of incomplete urban spaces. Architect, editor, and architectural curator Javier Arpa Fernández presents a lecture reflecting on how alternative(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Filling the Gaps
George Arbid, Joyce Joumaa, Oscar Niemeyer, Tripoli, Lebanon, Rashid Karami International Fair, fairground, to remain in the no longer, crisis
6 February 2023
Filling the Gaps
George Arbid interviewed by Joyce Joumaa on Oscar Niemeyer’s project for the Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli
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Failed Bureaucracy
Mousbah Rajab, Joyce Joumaa, Oscar Niemeyer, Tripoli, Lebanon, Rashid Karami International Fair, fairground, to remain in the no longer, crisis
27 February 2023
Failed Bureaucracy
Mousbah Rajab interviewed by Joyce Joumaa on the Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli and the shortcomings of city management and planning
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Shaughnessy House, CCA Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, place-based practices, place-based knowledges, pedagogy, environment, climate crisis, on-the-land learning
24 February 2024, 2pm to 3:30pm
Shaughnessy House, CCA Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, place-based practices, place-based knowledges, pedagogy, environment, climate crisis, on-the-land learning
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To remain in the no longer, Tripoli, Lebanon, housing crisis, urban planning, urban management, city government, Public Works Studio
5 September 2023
Tripoli: Who Took Away Our Land? (Part 2)
Public Works Studio presents the social and environmental repercussions of the city’s public management
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