Learning from... Chisasibi
A conversation between artist Thomas Kneubühler and filmmaker Ernest Webb, who explore housing and human migration in a small town on the eastern shore of James Bay. The conversation will be moderated by Alessandra Ponte. Taking the hydroelectric installations in Northern Quebec as his cue, Kneubühler documents how the generation of power touches the land and by extension(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
25 October 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Chisasibi
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A conversation between artist Thomas Kneubühler and filmmaker Ernest Webb, who explore housing and human migration in a small town on the eastern shore of James Bay. The conversation will be moderated by Alessandra Ponte. Taking the hydroelectric installations in Northern Quebec as his cue, Kneubühler documents how the generation of power touches the land and by extension(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
3 August 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
No Parks?
Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
25 May 2017
No Parks?
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Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
This critical reading of exemplary projects from the CCA Collection reveals everyday spatial and power dynamics that have created middlegrounds but that have not often been acknowledged. Beyond restitution, how can architects participate in imagining more just futures for sites of dispossession?
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Middleground, hall cases, Rafico Ruiz, Louise Paradis, indigenous, sovereignty, Ella den Elzen, Camille Saade-Traboulsi
10 February 2021 to 13 March 2022
Middleground: Siting Dispossession
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This critical reading of exemplary projects from the CCA Collection reveals everyday spatial and power dynamics that have created middlegrounds but that have not often been acknowledged. Beyond restitution, how can architects participate in imagining more just futures for sites of dispossession?
Hall Cases Keyword(s):
Middleground, hall cases, Rafico Ruiz, Louise Paradis, indigenous, sovereignty, Ella den Elzen, Camille Saade-Traboulsi
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Documenting Inuit Life
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271 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
București : Per Omnes Artes, 2003.
Romania, valoarea arhitecturii autohtone = Romania, la valeur de l'architecture autochtone / Silvia Păun ; traduit en franc̦ais Olimpia Coroamă.
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271 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
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București : Per Omnes Artes, 2003.
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171 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Québec: SAGMI, 1984.
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Québec: SAGMI, 1984.
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9 unnumbered leaves, 35 pages : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm
[Ottawa] : Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement, 1987.
Programme de démonstration de logements pour les ruraux et les autochtones par Thermocube Inc. : rapport et manuel de construction / préparé pour la Division de la mise en œuvre des projets, Secteur des politiques de recherche et programmes, Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement par Thermocube Inc. ; consultant principal, Raymond Couture ; directeur de projet SCHL, Jacques Rousseau.
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9 unnumbered leaves, 35 pages : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm
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[Ottawa] : Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement, 1987.
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148 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
[Montréal] : Éditions Somme toute, [2020]
D'horizons et d'estuaires : entre mémoires et créations autochtones / sous la direction littéraire de Camille Larivée et Léuli Eshrāghi pour le Collectif des commissaires autochtones
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148 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
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[Montréal] : Éditions Somme toute, [2020]
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36 pages : color illustrations, color maps, plan ; 28 cm
[Ottawa] : Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, [1991], 1994.
The Rural and Native Housing Demonstration Program.
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36 pages : color illustrations, color maps, plan ; 28 cm
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[Ottawa] : Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, [1991], 1994.