Emerging from the 2026 and inaugural edition of the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program, join Rayshad Dorsey, Hi’ilei Hobart, and Jake Hobart as they discuss their approaches to the complex social and legal processes that determine contemporary conditions of vacancy in St. Louis and Honolulu.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
27 August 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Vacancy as Return and Renewal
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Emerging from the 2026 and inaugural edition of the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program, join Rayshad Dorsey, Hi’ilei Hobart, and Jake Hobart as they discuss their approaches to the complex social and legal processes that determine contemporary conditions of vacancy in St. Louis and Honolulu.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
This presentation by Amanda Zhang explores toys as world-building technologies, revealing the ideals and imaginaries of those who make, play with, and collect them.
4 September 2026, 2pm to 3:30pm
Constructing Childhood with Amanda Zhang on the CCA toy collection
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This presentation by Amanda Zhang explores toys as world-building technologies, revealing the ideals and imaginaries of those who make, play with, and collect them.
Everlasting
A film from the CCA’s 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research Creation Fellow, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Shaughnessy House
25 September 2025 to 8 November 2026
Everlasting
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A film from the CCA’s 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research Creation Fellow, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Shaughnessy House
H.E.R.E (Homecoming Equity + Regenerative Encounters) and Back Again: Letters, Land, and Living Memory assembles research, storytelling, and community dialogue to explore how relationships to land are remembered, maintained, and reimagined across generations. Initiated in the context of the CCA-Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Program (In the Hurricane, On the Land), the(...)
H.E.R.E. and Back Again: Letters, Land, and Living Memory
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H.E.R.E (Homecoming Equity + Regenerative Encounters) and Back Again: Letters, Land, and Living Memory assembles research, storytelling, and community dialogue to explore how relationships to land are remembered, maintained, and reimagined across generations. Initiated in the context of the CCA-Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Program (In the Hurricane, On the Land), the(...)
Tour of the Sculpture Garden
Guided Tour of the Sculpture Garden
the Sculpture Garden
6 September 2026, 1pm and 2:30pm
the Sculpture Garden
With an Acre
With an Acre is the third chapter of Groundwork, a three-part film and exhibition series exploring the conceptual development and field research of contemporary architects cultivating alternative modes of practice.
2025
With an Acre
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With an Acre is the third chapter of Groundwork, a three-part film and exhibition series exploring the conceptual development and field research of contemporary architects cultivating alternative modes of practice.
With an Acre
With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking(...)
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Brazil, Carla Juacaba, Groundwork, coffee, Nepomuceno, Minas Gerais, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Joshua Frank
19 June 2025 to 12 October 2025
With an Acre
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With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking(...)
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Brazil, Carla Juacaba, Groundwork, coffee, Nepomuceno, Minas Gerais, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Joshua Frank
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The 2025 edition of the Virtual Fellowship Program sought to gauge what research questions matter most to architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and other design professionals under the surface of the day to day. We were looking for persistent questions—those that resonate with practitioners navigating various pressures including those of time, cost, and skewed(...)
September 2025 to December 2025
Virtual Research Fellows 2025
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The 2025 edition of the Virtual Fellowship Program sought to gauge what research questions matter most to architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and other design professionals under the surface of the day to day. We were looking for persistent questions—those that resonate with practitioners navigating various pressures including those of time, cost, and skewed(...)
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September 2025 to
December 2025
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April 2022 to
August 2022