Hope and Agency in Uncertain Times

Monday, March 11

All-day installation

• Reclaimed weaves, by Athena Tsilimigakis, Love Benedict Mbata, Maya Oliva-Kreysa, and Pramila Choudhary 

10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

• Finding hope in current topics in sustainability, with Breanna Byrd, Sarah Carroll, Ryan Collins, Ken Downe, Annabel Durr, Babatunde Fafunwa, Frédérique Hébert-Mondragon, Amir Kardan, Parneet Kaur, Vattharya Ker, Aspen Murray, Ariane Peroni, Kyra Pompeo, Olivia Spatolisano, Julie St. Onge, Nicole Yu, Athena Tsilimigakis, Love Benedict Mbata, Maya Oliva-Kreysa, and Pramila Choudhary

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

• Traditional Japanese material practices as a model for sustainability in clothing design: a workshop with Larissa Zemke

3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

• Readings for hope and agency: A book discussion featuring James Grant, Jochen Jaeger, Alex Pace, Juliette Lebold, and Jordi Vilanova i Brottp

Tuesday, March 12 

10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 

• Batteries for enabling renewable energy, with Marc-Antoni Goulet

12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. 

• Sustainability: The human (and monkey) dimension, with Jacob Wade-Valance, Charlotte Whyte, Cindy Balan, Stephanie Eccles, Antonio Castillo, and Mikaela Gerwing

2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. 

• How digital disruptions are changing our social and environmental systems, with Sabine Bergler, Damon Matthews, and Baron Tymas, moderated by Micheline Ayoub

3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Agency in urban greenspaces: How to get involved in local conservation, with Elizabeth Miller and Carly Ziter

All-day exhibit

• Collect it. Wash it. Shred it. Shape it. Recycle it. By Antoine Léger and Pramila Choudhary  

9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. 

• Climate of hope: A workshop with Juliette Lebold

11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. 

• Issues in climate change, with Mohammed Al-Duais, Alex Pace, Antoine Léger, and Pramila Choudhary

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

• Transdisciplinarity and agency: Effecting change through research across knowledge systems, with Jochen Jaeger and Katja Neves

2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.

• Going to bat: A workshop with Abhinav Deshwar, Anjali Joji Mathew, Tristan McKenna, Semini Nawalage, and Yearim Yang

4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

• Under-mining urban gardens, keynote address by Mitchell McLarnon

7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

•  Climate Emergency Committee 5-year anniversary party at Frigo Vert 

9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 

• Issues in sustainability, justice, ethics, and disturbance, with Jonathan Motte and Ariadna Modol Pereira, Ashley Spanier-Levasseur, Brianna Leigh Losinger-Ross and Amélie Daoust-Boisvert, Noa Davidai, Emma Taniguchi, and Liam McMahon

11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

• Mitigating road effects and addressing urban sprawl: Hope for wildlife? With Jochen Jaeger, Jonathan Wilansky, Claire Weiland, and Abigail Dawe-Roy

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. 

• Agency and academic legitimacy: Where is the line between advocacy, advising, and academia? With Emma Despland, Amy Poteete, Nicole Yu, and Rebecca Tittler

2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.  

• Policy to practice: Emerging issues, with Sabrina Mruczek, Emilie Girard, Sepideh Mosharafian, and Rebeca Esquivel