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articles
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What the future looked like
What the future looked like
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articles
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Let us assure you
Let us assure you
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articles
articles
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The Power of the Image
The Power of the Image
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Shirley Blumberg on the John C. Parkin fonds
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articles
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Andrea Lissoni and Akram Zaatari on films, institutions, and their metamorphic characters
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5 May 2025
5 May 2025
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The Transformative Power of Film
Andrea Lissoni and Akram Zaatari on films, institutions, and their metamorphic characters
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The Transformative Power of Film
Andrea Lissoni and Akram Zaatari on films, institutions, and their metamorphic characters
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events
events
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The 2024 Toolkit for Today explores imaginative, material, and methodological paths to collectively navigate how queer and trans* theory can offer critiques of power that allow for the revision of some of the core concepts and ontologies of architectural history.
The 2024 Toolkit for Today explores imaginative, material, and methodological paths to collectively navigate how queer and trans* theory can offer critiques of power that allow for the revision of some of the core concepts and ontologies of architectural history.
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22 July 2024 to 26 July 2024
22 July 2024 to 26 July 2024
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Toolkit for Today: Cross Wor(l)ds/Queer Wor(l)ds
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The 2024 Toolkit for Today explores imaginative, material, and methodological paths to collectively navigate how queer and trans* theory can offer critiques of power that allow for the revision of some of the core concepts and ontologies of architectural history.
Toolkit for Today: Cross Wor(l)ds/Queer Wor(l)ds
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The 2024 Toolkit for Today explores imaginative, material, and methodological paths to collectively navigate how queer and trans* theory can offer critiques of power that allow for the revision of some of the core concepts and ontologies of architectural history.
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events
events
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22 July 2024 to
26 July 2024
22 July 2024 to
26 July 2024
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research
research
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Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
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April 2022
April 2022
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Find and Tell: Shirley Blumberg on John C. Parkin
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Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
Find and Tell: Shirley Blumberg on John C. Parkin
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Description:
Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
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research
research
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April 2022
April 2022
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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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?
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?
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Hall Cases Keyword(s):
Middleground, hall cases, Rafico Ruiz, Louise Paradis, indigenous, sovereignty, Ella den Elzen, Camille Saade-Traboulsi
Hall Cases Keyword(s):
Middleground, hall cases, Rafico Ruiz, Louise Paradis, indigenous, sovereignty, Ella den Elzen, Camille Saade-Traboulsi
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10 February 2021 to 13 March 2022
10 February 2021 to 13 March 2022
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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?
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?
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
10 February 2021 to
13 March 2022
10 February 2021 to
13 March 2022
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Hall Cases Keyword(s):
Middleground, hall cases, Rafico Ruiz, Louise Paradis, indigenous, sovereignty, Ella den Elzen, Camille Saade-Traboulsi
Hall Cases Keyword(s):
Middleground, hall cases, Rafico Ruiz, Louise Paradis, indigenous, sovereignty, Ella den Elzen, Camille Saade-Traboulsi
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events
events
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The film program turns to artists examining the ways territories are imagined, represented, and governed. Moving through simulated landscapes, aerial surveys, borders, and systems of measurement, the films trace how territory is made available to power before violence becomes visible.
The film program turns to artists examining the ways territories are imagined, represented, and governed. Moving through simulated landscapes, aerial surveys, borders, and systems of measurement, the films trace how territory is made available to power before violence becomes visible.
Date:
29 November 2026, 2pm to 4pm
29 November 2026, 2pm to 4pm
Title:
The Distance Between Us and the Ground: To Hold the Distance
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The film program turns to artists examining the ways territories are imagined, represented, and governed. Moving through simulated landscapes, aerial surveys, borders, and systems of measurement, the films trace how territory is made available to power before violence becomes visible.
The Distance Between Us and the Ground: To Hold the Distance
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The film program turns to artists examining the ways territories are imagined, represented, and governed. Moving through simulated landscapes, aerial surveys, borders, and systems of measurement, the films trace how territory is made available to power before violence becomes visible.
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events
events
Date:
29 November 2026
2pm to 4pm
29 November 2026
2pm to 4pm
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events
events
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Bringing together Marc Angélil and Zahra Ebrahim, the discussion explores the relationships among architecture, urban development, housing, infrastructure, governance, and community agency. Drawing on their respective work and perspectives, they examine how cities are produced beyond the intentions of architects and planners through capitalism, public policy,(...)
Bringing together Marc Angélil and Zahra Ebrahim, the discussion explores the relationships among architecture, urban development, housing, infrastructure, governance, and community agency. Drawing on their respective work and perspectives, they examine how cities are produced beyond the intentions of architects and planners through capitalism, public policy,(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
architecture, urban development, housing, infrastructure, governance, community agency
Paul-Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
architecture, urban development, housing, infrastructure, governance, community agency
Date:
19 November 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
19 November 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Title:
Who Makes the City?
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Description:
Bringing together Marc Angélil and Zahra Ebrahim, the discussion explores the relationships among architecture, urban development, housing, infrastructure, governance, and community agency. Drawing on their respective work and perspectives, they examine how cities are produced beyond the intentions of architects and planners through capitalism, public policy,(...)
Who Makes the City?
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Description:
Bringing together Marc Angélil and Zahra Ebrahim, the discussion explores the relationships among architecture, urban development, housing, infrastructure, governance, and community agency. Drawing on their respective work and perspectives, they examine how cities are produced beyond the intentions of architects and planners through capitalism, public policy,(...)
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events
events
Date:
19 November 2026
6pm to 7:30pm
19 November 2026
6pm to 7:30pm
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
architecture, urban development, housing, infrastructure, governance, community agency
Paul-Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
architecture, urban development, housing, infrastructure, governance, community agency
