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From Commodity to Community?
The planet is the client
22 December 2016
The planet is the client
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Mobilizing Resources
2 March 2026
Mobilizing Resources
Shirley Surya and Li Hua interview Zhu Guangya about Third Front Construction
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Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
24 November 2016, 6pm
Iceberg Alley, Climate Change, and Canada’s Grey Resources
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Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
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Collected documentation from Children's Play Ressource Centre for children playgrounds projects
AP075.S4.SS1.016
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Original folder entitled "CHILDREN'S PLAY RESSOURCES CENTRE".
1979-1982
Collected documentation from Children's Play Ressource Centre for children playgrounds projects
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AP075.S4.SS1.016
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Original folder entitled "CHILDREN'S PLAY RESSOURCES CENTRE".
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1979-1982
PHCON2002:0016:004:062:005
1976
Proposal for the development of a community Ressource Center and Environmental Cadet Program
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PHCON2002:0016:004:062:005
This workshop allows youth, aged 15–18 years-old, to further develop their interest in design, architecture, and art. By connecting youth with professional mentors and resources, participants will develop a collective research project with the support and knowledge of the CCA team.
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20 July to 21 September
The Urban Unknown—CCA Youth Collective
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This workshop allows youth, aged 15–18 years-old, to further develop their interest in design, architecture, and art. By connecting youth with professional mentors and resources, participants will develop a collective research project with the support and knowledge of the CCA team.
the CCA
Join 2023 CCA-WRI Fellows Andrea Alberto Dutto, Oxana Gourinovitch, and Tomomi Miyata as they share their research on how the underground has evolved as a space of Cold War anxiety and resource extraction, to contemporary concerns around climate and other unnational disasters from which the earth can provide shelter.
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Andrea Alberto Dutto, Oxana Gourinovitch, Tomomi Miyata, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Jungyoon Kim, WRI, light, planet
10 August 2023, 9 a.m. to noon
Underground Anxieties: 2023 CCA-WRI Research Symposium
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Join 2023 CCA-WRI Fellows Andrea Alberto Dutto, Oxana Gourinovitch, and Tomomi Miyata as they share their research on how the underground has evolved as a space of Cold War anxiety and resource extraction, to contemporary concerns around climate and other unnational disasters from which the earth can provide shelter.
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Andrea Alberto Dutto, Oxana Gourinovitch, Tomomi Miyata, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Jungyoon Kim, WRI, light, planet
American Remediation
This exhibition revisits a series of documentaries produced by the US Department of the Interior in the 1950s that portray the transformational role of infrastructure in reshaping landscapes according to American values.
Octagonal Gallery Keyword(s):
landscape, resources, nature, infrastructure, cold war, extractivism, propaganda, imaginary
1 October 2026 to 3 January 2027
American Remediation
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This exhibition revisits a series of documentaries produced by the US Department of the Interior in the 1950s that portray the transformational role of infrastructure in reshaping landscapes according to American values.
Octagonal Gallery Keyword(s):
landscape, resources, nature, infrastructure, cold war, extractivism, propaganda, imaginary
Join us on 8 May at 6pm for a lecture by Noelia Monteiro on her work at Estudio Flume. The studio, based in São Paulo, develops socio-environmental projects in remote areas of Brazil, aiming to protect traditional communities that preserve the Amazon rainforest. Monteiro’s work poses a key question: in the face of resource scarcity, how can we build with almost nothing?(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
8 May 2025, 6pm
Groundwork with Noelia Monteiro
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Join us on 8 May at 6pm for a lecture by Noelia Monteiro on her work at Estudio Flume. The studio, based in São Paulo, develops socio-environmental projects in remote areas of Brazil, aiming to protect traditional communities that preserve the Amazon rainforest. Monteiro’s work poses a key question: in the face of resource scarcity, how can we build with almost nothing?(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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15 September 2025
A proposal by Gordon Matta-Clark
Part of a fellowship application for a Resource Centre and Environmental Youth Program
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