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Workshops & seminars, Arts & culture

Points de vue urban lab: Urban greening


Date & time
Saturday, September 13, 2014
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Cost

This event is free

Where

Darling Foundry
745 Ottawa St


A number of known and lesser known ecologically diverse landscapes thrive in the city of Montreal, and particularly in its postindustrial urban spaces. A number of these landscapes are also rapidly disappearing in the wake of new residential and private real-state developments. Often these kinds of weedy and overgrown landscapes are perceived as blighted and ruined urban spaces. This workshop seeks to make public the potential that informal urban green spaces have to serve as community space for interspecies relations, and invites the public to participate in creative strategies for preserving the social life of these natural-cultural landscapes.

When:         Saturday, September 13 from 1 to 5 p.m.
Where:        Darling Foundry (745 Ottawa St.)
Registration: To participate please email pointsdevuemtl@gmail.com.

This urban lab is curatored by NoĆ©mi Despland-Lichtert with guest speaker Roger Latour.

Roger Latour

Roger Latour is an urban naturalist, photographer, writer and blogger studying biological and cultural processes in abandoned lots, remnant forests and parks. An observer but an actor also: founding president of Les Amis du Champ des Possibles. He has published articles in magazines and specialized journals and the popular book Guide la flore urbaine in 2009. Presently working on essays and books to be published this fall in electronic format.

Read about the Points de vue project.

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