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.
April 2022
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.
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
Where We Grow Older
The documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min) looks at how the growing ageing population is reshaping architectural and social constructs and questions the role of urban design and politics in facing these challenges. The film investigates two models of how care and housing can be reconceived in light of prolonged lives: public housing and the creation of a new(...)
Where We Grow Older
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The documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min) looks at how the growing ageing population is reshaping architectural and social constructs and questions the role of urban design and politics in facing these challenges. The film investigates two models of how care and housing can be reconceived in light of prolonged lives: public housing and the creation of a new(...)
Join us Wednesday November 20 from 4–7 pm to honour the women who planned and designed our built environment. This event is free and open to the public.
Study Room
20 November 2024, 4pm to 7pm
Wiki Edit-a-thon: Foregrounding Canadian Women Architects
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Join us Wednesday November 20 from 4–7 pm to honour the women who planned and designed our built environment. This event is free and open to the public.
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May 2023 to
September 2023
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Learning from… China
In Urbanising Southern China: Poverty, Minorities, and Development, Gregory Guldin examines the social and environmental consequences of accelerated industrialisation in China, as agricultural villages become dense urban agglomerations at unprecedented rates. A specialist in Chinese urbanisation, ethnicity, and politics, Gregory Guldin is Professor of Anthropology at the(...)
3 May 2007
Learning from… China
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In Urbanising Southern China: Poverty, Minorities, and Development, Gregory Guldin examines the social and environmental consequences of accelerated industrialisation in China, as agricultural villages become dense urban agglomerations at unprecedented rates. A specialist in Chinese urbanisation, ethnicity, and politics, Gregory Guldin is Professor of Anthropology at the(...)
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3 May 2007
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.
22 July 2024 to 26 July 2024
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.
To coincide with the opening of our exhibition To Build Law, we invite you to a roundtable on renovation and rehabilitation policies in Canada. Olaf Grawert, Alina Kolar (bplus.xyz), and Juliette Cook (Ha/f Climate Design) will discuss the economic, environmental, and legal challenges of renovation.
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renovation and rehabilitation policies in Canada, roundtable, economic, environmental, and legal challenges of renovation
11 December 2024, 6pm
Tear Down or Repair
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To coincide with the opening of our exhibition To Build Law, we invite you to a roundtable on renovation and rehabilitation policies in Canada. Olaf Grawert, Alina Kolar (bplus.xyz), and Juliette Cook (Ha/f Climate Design) will discuss the economic, environmental, and legal challenges of renovation.
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renovation and rehabilitation policies in Canada, roundtable, economic, environmental, and legal challenges of renovation
19 September 2024, 12pm to 2pm