As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
1 December 2016, 6pm
In the Frontiers of Climate Change (Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Rights)
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As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
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This project, by the CCA’s 2022-2023 Emerging Curator Clarissa Lim Kye Lee, engages with collectives in the Malay Archipelago with aims of developing a shared toolkit for art and cultural workers globally. Through a series of workshops held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2024, this project looks to Malaysian collective ecologies and their relationship to their urban environments for ways to reinscribe a concern for the social in contemporary art and architecture.
Making Mamak: Collective Ecologies of Urban Space
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This project, by the CCA’s 2022-2023 Emerging Curator Clarissa Lim Kye Lee, engages with collectives in the Malay Archipelago with aims of developing a shared toolkit for art and cultural workers globally. Through a series of workshops held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2024, this project looks to Malaysian collective ecologies and their relationship to their urban environments for ways to reinscribe a concern for the social in contemporary art and architecture.
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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
4 June 2023, 1pm to 4pm
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AP156.S6.SS1.D1
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Le dossier porte la biographie de Jacqueline Jeanneret et contient des documents biographiques, des articles de journaux ou de périodiques sur elle ou sur l'Immeuble Clarté à Genève, en Suisse, réalisé par Le Corbusier. Le matériel de ce dossier a été produit environ entre 1985 et 2004. Le dossier contient des documents textuels et une photographie de Jacqueline Jeanneret. File documents Jacqueline Jeanneret's biography and contains biographical documents, journal or periodical articles about her or the Immeuble Clarté in Geneva, in Switzerland, designed by Le Corbusier. The material in this file was produced approximatively between 1985 and 2004. The file contains textual records and a photograph of Jacqueline Jeanneret.
ca.1985-2004
Documents biographiques et coupures de presse = Biographical documents and press clippings
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AP156.S6.SS1.D1
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Le dossier porte la biographie de Jacqueline Jeanneret et contient des documents biographiques, des articles de journaux ou de périodiques sur elle ou sur l'Immeuble Clarté à Genève, en Suisse, réalisé par Le Corbusier. Le matériel de ce dossier a été produit environ entre 1985 et 2004. Le dossier contient des documents textuels et une photographie de Jacqueline Jeanneret. File documents Jacqueline Jeanneret's biography and contains biographical documents, journal or periodical articles about her or the Immeuble Clarté in Geneva, in Switzerland, designed by Le Corbusier. The material in this file was produced approximatively between 1985 and 2004. The file contains textual records and a photograph of Jacqueline Jeanneret.
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ca.1985-2004
First, the Forests
*First, the Forests* examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning, and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. Curated(...)
Octagonal gallery
4 October 2012 to 6 January 2013
First, the Forests
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*First, the Forests* examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning, and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. Curated(...)
Octagonal gallery
In this lecture, Christophe Girot discusses digital landscape models: A quiet revolution has taken place in digital landscape design and analysis over the past decade, caused by the introduction of digital point-cloud models. The scope and precision of these digital landscape models, created with terrestrial laser scanners and mobile and airborne lidar, lead to new(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
6 October 2016, 6pm
Unravelling the Digital Landscape
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In this lecture, Christophe Girot discusses digital landscape models: A quiet revolution has taken place in digital landscape design and analysis over the past decade, caused by the introduction of digital point-cloud models. The scope and precision of these digital landscape models, created with terrestrial laser scanners and mobile and airborne lidar, lead to new(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Research Fellow Seminar: Irene Brisson
Lakay se Lakay: Transnational Architectures of Belonging
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research fellow 2022, Irene Brisson, Haiti, lakay, diaspora, belonging, memory, creole, kréyol, bòsmason, creolization
4 August 2022, 6pm
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, Irene Brisson, Haiti, lakay, diaspora, belonging, memory, creole, kréyol, bòsmason, creolization
Wolfgang Ernst, chair of media theories at Humboldt University in Berlin, introduces media archaeology as a method of research and discusses recent concepts of the dynamic archive. He expresses the need for a virtual museum of computer architecture and addresses the concept of the so-called digital humanities, with special attention to the sound-related epistemology(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
25 September 2014 , 6pm
Digital Media Archaeology: Archive, Museum and Sonicity
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Wolfgang Ernst, chair of media theories at Humboldt University in Berlin, introduces media archaeology as a method of research and discusses recent concepts of the dynamic archive. He expresses the need for a virtual museum of computer architecture and addresses the concept of the so-called digital humanities, with special attention to the sound-related epistemology(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Inspired by the theme of travel, this exhibition presents the personal vision of four photographers—Clara Sipprell, Lida Moser, Laura Volkerding, and Tadashi Kawamata—who visited Québec between the 1920s and today. The artists from elsewhere turn their attention to architecture and its environment, offering a view of Québec society from the perspective of their own(...)
Octagonal gallery
10 May 1995 to 15 October 1995
Four Photographers Visit Québec: Sipprell, Moser, Volkerding, Kawamata
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Inspired by the theme of travel, this exhibition presents the personal vision of four photographers—Clara Sipprell, Lida Moser, Laura Volkerding, and Tadashi Kawamata—who visited Québec between the 1920s and today. The artists from elsewhere turn their attention to architecture and its environment, offering a view of Québec society from the perspective of their own(...)
Octagonal gallery