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9 March 2026
What is the architecture of interactive entertainment?
Farzin Lotfi-Jam discusses the legacy of Culture Lab with Brian Boigon
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This roundtable brings together multidisciplinary scholars from media and film studies, design, and visual culture to explore modernity in China during the 1950s and 1960s through the lens of material production and spatial transformation. Centered on the intensification of productivity in industry and land use, the discussion considers how object-making and(...)
Ying Qian, Weixian Pan, Jennifer Altehenger, Joshua Neves, How Modern, GEM Lab, Concordia
19 February 2026, 6pm to 8pm
Discussion: Revolutionary Matter
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This roundtable brings together multidisciplinary scholars from media and film studies, design, and visual culture to explore modernity in China during the 1950s and 1960s through the lens of material production and spatial transformation. Centered on the intensification of productivity in industry and land use, the discussion considers how object-making and(...)
Ying Qian, Weixian Pan, Jennifer Altehenger, Joshua Neves, How Modern, GEM Lab, Concordia
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Speed and its Limits
Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
21 June 2008, 9am - 5pm
Speed and its Limits
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Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
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21 June 2008
9am - 5pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
The formaldehyde-based resins that bind pressed woods are an overlooked, yet foundational, agent in the homemaking and technological dreamworlds of mid-twentieth century North America. Formaldehyde, an irritant, allergen, neurotoxin, and carcinogen, undergirds much of the comfort, security, and affordability of the modern home. In this talk Nicholas Shapiro tracks(...)
9 March 2017
When Shelter Becomes Exposure
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The formaldehyde-based resins that bind pressed woods are an overlooked, yet foundational, agent in the homemaking and technological dreamworlds of mid-twentieth century North America. Formaldehyde, an irritant, allergen, neurotoxin, and carcinogen, undergirds much of the comfort, security, and affordability of the modern home. In this talk Nicholas Shapiro tracks(...)
Speed Limits
Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
20 May 2009 to 8 November 2009
Speed Limits
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Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
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1 videocassette (120 min.) : sound ; 1/2 in.
Toronto, Ont. : Ashland, [1994]
Culture Lab no. 3 : weaklings / Brian Boigon.
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1 videocassette (120 min.) : sound ; 1/2 in.
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Toronto, Ont. : Ashland, [1994]
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255 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1993.
Culture Lab 1 / edited by Brian Boigon.
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255 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1993.
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Deep Lab Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry 2014
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Deep Lab Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry 2014
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 11 min.)) : sound, color
[Montréal] : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2016]
Fucking with interoperability : Culture Lab 1991-94.
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 11 min.)) : sound, color
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[Montréal] : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2016]
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118 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.
Halifax, N.S. : Tuns Press, 2008.
Free lab : design-build projects from the School of Architecture, Dalhousie University, Canada, 1991-2006 / compiled and written by Christine Macy ; design by Youki Cropas.
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118 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.
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Halifax, N.S. : Tuns Press, 2008.