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(...)
Please join us for a conversation around Samia Hennis latest publication, Toxicité Coloniale : Documenter le paysage radioactif dans le Sahara, published in French by Éditions B42. On this occasion, Henni will present how this project came to be and the creative process behind this edition.
12 March 2026, 6pm
Book Launch: Colonial Toxicity with Samia Henni
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Please join us for a conversation around Samia Hennis latest publication, Toxicité Coloniale : Documenter le paysage radioactif dans le Sahara, published in French by Éditions B42. On this occasion, Henni will present how this project came to be and the creative process behind this edition.
The 2025 Toolkit for Today explores how computational optics are systems of perception powered by software, and is organized in collaboration with researcher, graphic designer, and new media artist Simone Niquille.
14 July 2025 to 18 July 2025
Toolkit for Today: Computation Is the New Optics
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The 2025 Toolkit for Today explores how computational optics are systems of perception powered by software, and is organized in collaboration with researcher, graphic designer, and new media artist Simone Niquille.
This roundtable brings together multidisciplinary scholars from media and film studies, design, and visual culture to explore modernity in China during the 1950s and 1960s through the lens of material production and spatial transformation. Centered on the intensification of productivity in industry and land use, the discussion considers how object-making and(...)
Ying Qian, Weixian Pan, Jennifer Altehenger, Joshua Neves, How Modern, GEM Lab, Concordia
19 February 2026, 6pm to 8pm
Discussion: Revolutionary Matter
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This roundtable brings together multidisciplinary scholars from media and film studies, design, and visual culture to explore modernity in China during the 1950s and 1960s through the lens of material production and spatial transformation. Centered on the intensification of productivity in industry and land use, the discussion considers how object-making and(...)
Ying Qian, Weixian Pan, Jennifer Altehenger, Joshua Neves, How Modern, GEM Lab, Concordia
Join us on for a 90-minute workshop on the evolution and legacy of hip hop and urban space, where we will listen to rap music, write lyrics, and draw maps in graffiti.
21 February 2026, 12pm to 1pm
Grown from the Concrete: Hip Hop and Urban Space
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Join us on for a 90-minute workshop on the evolution and legacy of hip hop and urban space, where we will listen to rap music, write lyrics, and draw maps in graffiti.
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This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
22 January 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Screening of film excerpts and live annotation: Antonioni’s Chung Kuo, Cina (1972)
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This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
CCA Founding Director Phyllis Lambert and Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) present their 2013 publications Building Seagram and Lincoln Center Inside Out and discuss architecture and public space in New York.
Paul Desmarais Theatre
13 May 2013, 6pm - 8pm
In conversation: Phyllis Lambert and Elizabeth Diller
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CCA Founding Director Phyllis Lambert and Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) present their 2013 publications Building Seagram and Lincoln Center Inside Out and discuss architecture and public space in New York.
Paul Desmarais Theatre
How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979 reconsiders architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime to illuminate specific social biographies of projects that challenge prevailing assessments of design and architectural practice in Mao’s China as monolithic, hermetic, and autocratic.
How Modern
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How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979 reconsiders architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime to illuminate specific social biographies of projects that challenge prevailing assessments of design and architectural practice in Mao’s China as monolithic, hermetic, and autocratic.