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
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
PH1987:0486
PH1980:0817:018
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Photograph shows buildings lining the street. People are shown standing or sitting on the doorsteps along the street while two children and running in the middle of the street at middleground.
1889-1896
View of Champlain Street in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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PH1980:0817:018
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Photograph shows buildings lining the street. People are shown standing or sitting on the doorsteps along the street while two children and running in the middle of the street at middleground.
PH1980:0817:039
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Photograph is taken in a field looking down toward the St. Lawrence River. A wooden windmill structure is visible at left and several buildings, probably farmhouses, are seen in the middleground
1889-1896
Photograph of a rural setting in Cacouna, Quebec, Canada
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PH1980:0817:039
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Photograph is taken in a field looking down toward the St. Lawrence River. A wooden windmill structure is visible at left and several buildings, probably farmhouses, are seen in the middleground
PH1980:0817:020
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Photograph depicts a narrow laneway with the backs of houses visible at left and small outbuildings at right. Two children in white dresses stand facing the camera in the far middleground of the composition.
1889-1896
View of a laneway behind houses in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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PH1980:0817:020
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Photograph depicts a narrow laneway with the backs of houses visible at left and small outbuildings at right. Two children in white dresses stand facing the camera in the far middleground of the composition.
PH1980:0817:021
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Photograph depicts a narrow street with row houses on either side in an historically lower-income area of Quebec City. Laundry hangs drying on line above the street and children and one woman are visible sitting on a doorstep at right middleground. One child walks down the centre of the street toward the camera.
1889
View of a narrow street in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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PH1980:0817:021
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Photograph depicts a narrow street with row houses on either side in an historically lower-income area of Quebec City. Laundry hangs drying on line above the street and children and one woman are visible sitting on a doorstep at right middleground. One child walks down the centre of the street toward the camera.
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2 August 2021
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Siting the Settler Record
settler, indigenous, middleground, pgl, oberlander, rafico ruiz, ella den elzen, camille saade-traboulsi
31 January 2021
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xii, 95 pages : illustrations ; 19 x 31 cm.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2000.
Recent terrains : terraforming the American West / photographs by Laurie Brown ; poetry by Martha Ronk ; concluding essay by Charles E. Little.
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xii, 95 pages : illustrations ; 19 x 31 cm.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2000.