Into the Island
Into the Island follows Xu Tiantian of DnA in her discovery of essential elements, pressure points, and issues on the destabilizing terrain that is the ocean and its delicate ecosystem of Meizhou Island. It is the first chapter in a three part film and exhibition series, Groundwork.
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Meizhou, Xu Tiantian, Francesco Garutti, Into the island, groundwork, ecology
7 May 2024 to 17 November 2024
Into the Island
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Into the Island follows Xu Tiantian of DnA in her discovery of essential elements, pressure points, and issues on the destabilizing terrain that is the ocean and its delicate ecosystem of Meizhou Island. It is the first chapter in a three part film and exhibition series, Groundwork.
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Meizhou, Xu Tiantian, Francesco Garutti, Into the island, groundwork, ecology
Into the Island
Into the Island follows Xu Tiantian of DnA in her discovery of essential elements, pressure points, and issues on the destabilizing terrain that is the ocean and its delicate ecosystem of Meizhou Island. It is the first chapter in a three part film and exhibition series, Groundwork.
2024
Into the Island
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Into the Island follows Xu Tiantian of DnA in her discovery of essential elements, pressure points, and issues on the destabilizing terrain that is the ocean and its delicate ecosystem of Meizhou Island. It is the first chapter in a three part film and exhibition series, Groundwork.
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5,000 Species of Trees
forest, deforestation, ecosystem, coffee, plantation, colonialism, extraction, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
8 September 2025
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A Story of Encounters
Forces of Friction
Urban Diversity
Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 January 2009
Urban Diversity
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Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Second Nature
As part of the exhibition It’s All Happening So Fast, an interactive workshop is offered to cegep and university groups in order to explore the complex and contradictory relationships that Canada maintains with the environment. By taking a stand and speaking on behalf of entities motivated by a multiplicity of interests—ecosystems, architecture, ethics, economic systems,(...)
26 January 2017 to 7 April 2017
Second Nature
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As part of the exhibition It’s All Happening So Fast, an interactive workshop is offered to cegep and university groups in order to explore the complex and contradictory relationships that Canada maintains with the environment. By taking a stand and speaking on behalf of entities motivated by a multiplicity of interests—ecosystems, architecture, ethics, economic systems,(...)
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Dimensions of an Idea
Forces of Friction
16 June 2025
Forces of Friction
Learning from the practice of DnA and architect Xu Tiantian, participants are invited to discover how various local materials from across the coastal ecosystem of Meizhou Island, are sourced, studied, and implemented into an architectural project. From bamboo to mangroves to oyster shells, this workshop is an invitation to explore how materials with diverse(...)
25 June 2024 to 17 November 2024
Material Workshop: In Low Tide
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Learning from the practice of DnA and architect Xu Tiantian, participants are invited to discover how various local materials from across the coastal ecosystem of Meizhou Island, are sourced, studied, and implemented into an architectural project. From bamboo to mangroves to oyster shells, this workshop is an invitation to explore how materials with diverse(...)
textual records
AP206.S2.045
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.046 and AP206.S2.047. This file includes the following papers: "Purpose of Architecture," 1977 Poem in Urdu "Is Architecture Responsible?" 1981 Speech given at inauguration of an exhibition of art, 1980 Untitled papers, 1979-1980 "To be Protected," 1979 "Destiny and Discretion," 1979 "Leadership" "Your Circle," 1979 "Deliverance" "Urbanisation and Environmental Problems: Hill Ecosystem"
1977-1998
Published and unpublished papers (folder 1 of 3)
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AP206.S2.045
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.046 and AP206.S2.047. This file includes the following papers: "Purpose of Architecture," 1977 Poem in Urdu "Is Architecture Responsible?" 1981 Speech given at inauguration of an exhibition of art, 1980 Untitled papers, 1979-1980 "To be Protected," 1979 "Destiny and Discretion," 1979 "Leadership" "Your Circle," 1979 "Deliverance" "Urbanisation and Environmental Problems: Hill Ecosystem"
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1977-1998
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141 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Paris : J. Chambon, 1995.
Les usines à valeurs : écosystème des arts et explosion de l'histoire de l'art.
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141 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Paris : J. Chambon, 1995.