We invite kids to get out of the house and into the CCA for a day of free activities inspired by Ange Loft’s installation Visibly Iroquoian . In addition to a guided tour of the installation, participants will take part in the Carrying Patterns: Making Visible an Iroquoian Montréal workshop , which will invite them to familiarize themselves with Iroquoian aesthetics,(...)
Living Land: Kids’ Day at the CCA
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We invite kids to get out of the house and into the CCA for a day of free activities inspired by Ange Loft’s installation Visibly Iroquoian . In addition to a guided tour of the installation, participants will take part in the Carrying Patterns: Making Visible an Iroquoian Montréal workshop , which will invite them to familiarize themselves with Iroquoian aesthetics,(...)
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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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drawings
Plans and elevations, details and isometric drawings for an unidentified architectural project
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Includes plans and elevations, details and isometric drawings for an unidentified architectural project, but presumed to be for the École Cure Grenier, Notre-Dame des Laurentides, 1964- 1967. One plan is titled, "Plan du Site - Position possible de la Rue Future" and one detail drawing is titled, "Terrain de jeu Gravier".
circa 1965
Plans and elevations, details and isometric drawings for an unidentified architectural project
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DR2012:0012:047:013
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Includes plans and elevations, details and isometric drawings for an unidentified architectural project, but presumed to be for the École Cure Grenier, Notre-Dame des Laurentides, 1964- 1967. One plan is titled, "Plan du Site - Position possible de la Rue Future" and one detail drawing is titled, "Terrain de jeu Gravier".
drawings
circa 1965
Over three evenings on 15-17 August, join us for free outdoor Inuit games, stories, food, and films, in parc Baile as part of the 4th edition of the Tillitarniit festival. Organized by Inuit visual artist and filmmaker asinnajaq, this year’s festival titled home, body, land will bring together Inuit artists and filmmakers who are shaping todays world with stories from(...)
15 August 2024 to 17 August 2024, 6pm
Tillitarniit at CCA – home, body, land
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Over three evenings on 15-17 August, join us for free outdoor Inuit games, stories, food, and films, in parc Baile as part of the 4th edition of the Tillitarniit festival. Organized by Inuit visual artist and filmmaker asinnajaq, this year’s festival titled home, body, land will bring together Inuit artists and filmmakers who are shaping todays world with stories from(...)
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La collection documentaire porte sur le travail de Roger Taillibert pour l'installation d'un toit retractable en 1987 pour le Stade Olympique de Montréal avec un croquis du Stade Olympique dédicacé par Taillibert.
1987
Roger Taillibert (Montreal Olympic Stadium) collection
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CD013
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La collection documentaire porte sur le travail de Roger Taillibert pour l'installation d'un toit retractable en 1987 pour le Stade Olympique de Montréal avec un croquis du Stade Olympique dédicacé par Taillibert.
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1987
Super City
This installation by Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland (Generation X) investigates the creative impact of the 1960s explosion of toy building kits, offering a reflection on the profound effect toys can have-not only on how children learn to perceive the world, but also in terms of the kinds of things they produce as adults. Named after Super City, a kit(...)
Octagonal gallery
9 June 2005 to 20 November 2005
Super City
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This installation by Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland (Generation X) investigates the creative impact of the 1960s explosion of toy building kits, offering a reflection on the profound effect toys can have-not only on how children learn to perceive the world, but also in terms of the kinds of things they produce as adults. Named after Super City, a kit(...)
Octagonal gallery
Dream Houses, Toy Homes
Through selections from the CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, including 33 European and North American architectural toys dating from the early nineteenth century to 1995, Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines the notions of home, childhood, play, gender, and learning. The exhibition uncovers the potential of toys to embody images and ideas of domestic(...)
Dream Houses, Toy Homes
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Through selections from the CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, including 33 European and North American architectural toys dating from the early nineteenth century to 1995, Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines the notions of home, childhood, play, gender, and learning. The exhibition uncovers the potential of toys to embody images and ideas of domestic(...)
The City Decoded
What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
The Other Architect
7 February 2016 to 21 February 2016
The City Decoded
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What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
The Other Architect
Kids Build
Pulling from the extensive collection of architectural toys and games at the CCA, Kids Build presents examples of the many ways that architectural space is rendered through toys, as well as playful explorations of the relationships between basic elements and the architectural worlds they generate. It also suggests that as toys represent architectural ideas, they(...)
Hall cases
9 December 2015 to 24 April 2016
Kids Build
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Pulling from the extensive collection of architectural toys and games at the CCA, Kids Build presents examples of the many ways that architectural space is rendered through toys, as well as playful explorations of the relationships between basic elements and the architectural worlds they generate. It also suggests that as toys represent architectural ideas, they(...)
Hall cases
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Postcards on the Move
30 October 2023
Postcards on the Move
Armin Linke on global infrastructure, the Anthropocene, and playing games with the public
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