Date & time
Thursday, March 16, 2023
10 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
10 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
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Playing in the dirt
A Workshop
Speaker(s)
Andrée Tremblay
Cost
This event is free and open to the public, in person or remotely via Zoom
Organization
Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, Loyola College for Diversity & Sustainability, & 4th Space
Contact
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
4TH SPACE
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Andrea Tremblay: Playing in the dirt (recording)
Andrea Tremblay
Through fun exercises and prompts, this workshop invites and challenges participants to reflect on their assumptions about their relationship and connection to dirt and food.
About the workshop facilitator
Andrée Tremblay is a PhD student working towards a degree in the Individualized Program at Concordia University under the supervision of Professor Kim Sawchuck. Reaching beyond anthropocentrism and seeking meaningful collaborations for social transformation, Andrea’s research and creative practices coalesce in environmental humanities and are both inter and transdisciplinary as they bridge communication and education studies, socially engaged practices, sensory and food studies, and urban human geography to cast a critical lens on environmental injustices and inequalities in times of social, health, economic and ecological crises.
Using a mixed methodology of research-creation and iterative and participatory practices, I have created a replicable intergenerational vegetable garden to contemplate embodied, embedded, relational and affective interactions with the materiality of urban ecology and multispecies ethnography with a focus on the parallels between subjective individual and cultural disconnectedness within and to the community, the natural world, and food production.
She is a recipient of a Concordia Sustainability Action Fund Award and the Éric St-Pierre Award. As part of her research, she runs the mind.mouth.heart garden, which is part of the Sustainability Living Lab, on the Loyola campus
This event is part of:
Research that matters: Sustainability, biodiversity, and justice is brought to you by the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability and the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre in collaboration with 4TH SPACE, with the support of the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies; the Leadership in Environmental and Digital innovation for Sustainability (LEADS) NSERC CREATE program; the School of Community and Public Affairs and First Peoples Studies; the Science College; and the Departments of Biology; Communication Studies; Geography, Planning and Environment; Political Science and Sociology and Anthropology; and the Sustainability Action Fund at Concordia University, as well as the Elastic Spaces SSHRC Connection funded project, Thinking Allowed.
This event will contribute to the Sustainability in Research section of Concordia's Sustainability Action Plan by increasing the visibility of sustainability research at Concordia.