Dr Alice Jarry, PhD
- Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
- Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality (New Scholar), Design and Computation Arts
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Sign in to editResearch areas: Materiality; Biodesign; Waste Infrastructures; Art-Science Practices; Research-Creation; Urban Futures; Bio-Inspired Design; Critical Design; Design for Sustainability; Biocomposites; Biomaterials; Active Materials;
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Dr. Alice Jarry is Associate Professor (Strategic Hire in Materials and Materiality: Designing for Socio-Environmentally Responsive Cities) in the Department of Design and Computation Arts. She holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality (New Scholar). She is Director of Milieux's Speculative Life Biolab and Co-Director of Hexagram: Research-Creation Network in Arts, Culture, and Technologies. As an artist-researcher, she specializes in site-specific responsive works, art-science practices, socio-environmental design, and tangible media. Her research brings concerns about sustainability, aesthetics, and politics to bear critically upon materiality, material production, and urban infrastructures. Currently focusing on waste and residual matter, as well as active materials and biomaterials/composites for the built environment and the arts, Dr. Jarry examines how materiality—engaged in processes of transformation with site, technology, and communities—can provoke the emergence of adaptive forms and resilient socio-environmental relations. Dr. Jarry's works have been presented internationally at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris, the Planétarium de Montréal, the Vox Centre de l'image Contemporaine, the Biennale Nemo, the Leonardo Da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology, the International Digital Arts Biennial, Le Mois Multi, the Device_Art Triennale, the Invisible Dog Art Center, Mons 2015 (European Capital of Culture), La Gare Numérique, and the LASER series (Leonardo), among other venues.
Courses Taught
D-CART 498/631 Critical Materiality
DART 391 Environmental Research-Practice
DART 392 Socio-Cultural Research-Practice
DART 481 Design & Community Engagement
CART 444 Portfolio Studio
CART 412 Project Studio II
DART 212 Digital Media Studio 1
CART 211 Creative Computing & Network Culture
Research activities
2021-2026 Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality: Toward Resilient Environments and Technologies (New Scholar), Concordia, OVPRII.
2020-2022 Filtration de l'air et membranes d'oxyde de graphène : création art-science d'interfaces durables entre collectivités, milieux écologiques et environnement bâti, Concordia, Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award.
2025-2026 Oscillation: Réciprocités entre milieux matériels, computationnels et écologiques (Co-Applicants : Ramin Sedagheti (BCEE, Concordia), Marie-Pier Boucher, (ischool, UofT), Sofian Audry (Communications, UQAM), Samuel Bianchini (Ensad)), SSHRC Connection.
2025-2030 REGEN: co-création de dispositifs artistiques technologiques adaptatifs et régénératifs en dialogue avec les milieux végétaux (Co-Applicants : Hamid Akbarzadeh (Bioressource Engineering, McGill), Joan Laur (Biology,UdeM), Sofian Audry (Communications, UQAM)), SSHRC, Insight Grant.
2025 REGEN: co-création de dispositifs artistiques technologiques adaptatifs et régénératifs en dialogue avec les milieux végétaux, Hexagram, Matching Funds Grant.
2024-2025 Research Funding for Academics, DAAD German Academics German Service.
2025 Oscillation (Co-Applicants : Marie-Pier Boucher (ischool, UofT), Samuel Bianchini (Ensad)), Centre Culturel Canadien de Paris, Creation and Production Grant.
2024 REGEN: co-création de dispositifs artistiques technologiques adaptatifs et régénératifs en dialogue avec les milieux végétaux, Hexagram, Project Development Grant.
2023-2027 Hexagram Concordia Research Center, OVPRGS.
2022-2023 [re]capture, Conseil des Arts de Montréal.
2022-2024 Excitable Matters of Process: Sustainable interdisciplinary methods for synthesizing integrative smart hybrid membranes (Co-Applicants: Ramin Sedagheti (GSC, Aerospace Engineering), Subash Rhakeja (GSC, Aerospace Engineering), Philip Beesley (U. Waterloo, Architecture), Michael Montanaro (Dance)), Concordia, OVPRGS, Team Start Accelerator.
2021-2022 Excitable Materials: Co-creating new forms of engagement with magneto-rheological elastomers across the arts and sciences, principal investigator (Co-Applicants: Michael Montanaro (FFA, Dance), Ramin Sedagahati (GSC, Aerospace Engineering)), Concordia, OVPRGS, Team Start Up.
2020-2024 Membranes souples dynamiques : la filtration de l'air comme processus d'échange matériel, interdisciplinaire et socio-environnemental agissant, FRQSC, Soutien à la recherche-création pour la relève professorale.
2020-2023 Déconstruction du pont Champlain : co-création de propositions de récuperation des matériaux et engagement citoyen (Co-Applicants : Nathalie Drouin (UQAM); Shauna Janssen, Lan Lin, Carly Ziter (Concordia)), SSHRC, Partnership Engage Grant.
2020-2023 Membranes en action : création art-science d'interfaces durables entre collectivites, milieux écologiques et environnement bâti (Co-applicants : Samuel Bianchini (Ensad), Marie-Pier Boucher (ischool, UofT), Collaborators : Miranda Smitheram (Concordia); Delfina Fantini Van Ditmar (Royal College of Arts); Aurelie Mosse and Filippe Pais (Ensad)), SSHRC, Insight Development Grant.
2020-2021 Expérimentation art-science de membranes durables et réactives pour l'environnement bâti,Concordia, Early Career Researcher Covid Emergency Fund.
2019-2020 Engagement durable et cycle de vie des matériaux : le bien-être des communautés et la récupération d'une infrastructure routière (Co-applicants : Nathalie Drouin (UQAM); Shauna Janssen, Lan Lin, Carly Ziter (Concordia)), Concordia, Cities Funding.
2018 Soft Structures for Recapturing Residue, Concordia, FRDP.
Co-Principal Investigator
2026-2027 Structures réactives à base d'oxyde de graphène : concrétiser une idée audacieuse à la croisée de l'art et de la science des matériaux(PI : Marta Cerutti (McGill); Co-PI : Alice Jarry, (Concordia)), Audace Plus (volet visée).
2025-2026 Organoid Intelligence (PI: Andrian Ranga (KU Leuven, with Christophe de Jaeger, GLUON Art-Science; Co-PIs: Alice Jarry, Antye Guenther, Guillaume Slizewicz), Flanders Innovation Grant.
2023-2025 Origami-inspired deployable sensoriactuator soft robots (PI: Hamid Akbarzadeh (Bioresource Engineering, McGill), Co-Applicants: Alice Jarry (DCART, Concordia), Miranda Smitheram (DCART, Concordia), Marta Cerruti (Materials Engineering, McGill), David Meger (Computer Science, McGill)), SSHRC New Frontier in Research Fund (Exploration).
2022 -… Remediated Matter Collaborative Research Stream at Milieux Institute (PI: Miranda Smitheram (DCART, Concordia); Co-PI: Alice Jarry (DCART, Concordia)), Concordia OVPRGS, Facility Optimization Program.
2021-2022 [re]capture, Conseil des Arts de Montréal.
2021-2023 Co-création durable de structures d'oxyde de graphène réactives dans une approche transdisciplinaire des sciences des matériaux et du design (PI : Marta Cerutti (Materials Engineering, McGill University); Alice Jarry (DCART, Concordia), FRQ Audace.
2021-2023 Outer Space and the City (PI: Marie-Pier Boucher (ischool, UofT); Co-PI: Alice Jarry (DCART, Concordia), SSHRC, Insight Development Grant.
2020-2027 Hexagram-Reseau de recherche-création en arts, cultures et technologies (PI : Sofian Audry (Communications, UQAM; Co-Applicants : Alice Jarry (DCART, Concordia) 44 co-researchers), FRQSC – Regroupement Stratégique.
2026-2029 Cadre intégré de réhabilitation des façades et zones périmétriques des bâtiments publics en béton (PI : Caroline Hachem Vermette (BCEE, Concordia), Co-Applicants : Ahmed Soliman (BCEE, Concordia), Alice Jarry (DCART, Concordia) FRQ-SC Action concertée, Stratégies intervention sur le cadre bâti existant du Québec Architecture publique construite entre 1950-1981.
2026-2029 La performance au-delà de l’humain (PI : Sofian Audry (Communications, UQAM); Co-Applicants : Alice Jarry (DCART, Concordia), Danny Perrault and Katarina Nyemeyer (Communications, UQAM)), FRQ-SC Appui à la recherche-création.
2025-2026 Montreal to Mexico: Envisioning Plastic Pollution Solutions through Interdisciplinary Network Building (PI: Kelly Jazvac, Sculpture; Co-Applicants: Alice Jarry (DCART, Concordia) others), OVPRGS, STRII.
2024-2027 Recycling dredged sediments as building materials: Performance and socio-environmental impacts for sustainable ports (PI: Ahmed Soliman (BCEE, Concordia); Co-Applicants: Fuzhan Nasiri (BCEE,Concordia); Alice Jarry (Design, Concordia); Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon (Materials Engineering, ÉTS), Plaine, Transport Maritime.
2021-2023 Co-design prospectif pour la planification démocratique et inclusive en mobilité durable ALLIIUM -Alliance pour l’innovation dans les infrastructures urbaines de mobilité (PI: Emmanuel Benoit-Rauflet (HEC); Co-Applicants: Alice Jarry (DCART, Concordia); Nathalie Drouin (UQAM), Louise Henault-Éthier (INRS), Rafael Zigler (HEC)), FRQ-CIRROD.
2021-2022 Empathetic Spaces Partnership (PI: Philip Beesley, U. Waterloo; Co-Applicants: Alice Jarry (DCART, Concordia) others), SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.
2020-2021 Designing pollinator friendly cities (PI: Carly Ziter (Biology, Concordia); Co-Applicants
: Alice Jarry, JP Lessard and Rebecca Titler (Concordia)), Concordia, Cities Funding.
2026-2032 Rethinking Sustainability: Research Network for Global Environmental Humanities (PI: Jill Didur (English, Concordia) 15 co-applicants), SSHRC Partnership Grant.
2019-2022 Cadence en cours (PI : Michael Montanaro (Dance, Concordia); Co-Applicants: David Morris (Concordia)), FRQSC, Soutien à la recherche-création.
2018-2020 365 jours et 7 façons de mobiliser les connaissances sur les enjeux sociaux liés aux infrastructures (PI : Nathalie Drouin (Gestion, UQAM); Co-Applicants : Marie-Andrée Caron, (UQAM); Soumaya Cherkaoui (U. Sherbrooke)), SSHRC, Connection.
2016-2022 Living Architecture Systems (PI : Philip Beesley, Waterloo 20 co-applicant), SSHRC Partnership Grant.
Masters Thesis
Laflamme-Durand, Anne-Marie (2026) Archéologie des chutes / Remnant Archeologie. Masters Thesis, Concordia University
Vince, Elizabeth (2025) Waste not, want not:Valorizing Construction Waste for Sustainable Alternative Materials. Masters Thesis, Concordia University
Vandal, Philippe (2025) Spectral Narratives: Art-Science Objects Unveiling Scientific Protocols for Detecting Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Urban Soils in Montreal. Masters Thesis, Concordia University.
Enns, Patricia (2023) Narrative Debris: Counter-Mapping Overlooked Socio-Political Stories of Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
Couture, William (2023) Déconstruire la rue : imaginer une représentation expérientielle et abstraite de la temporalité. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
PhD Dissertations
Ammar-Khodja, Brice. (2025). Une archéologie du résiduel: Matérialisations polysensorielles de la contamination métallique des sols dans une pratique des dispositifs participatifs en art et en design. PhD Dissertation, Concordia University.
Mardirossian, Vanessa (2025). Le rôle du designer textile dans la transition écologique de l’industrie de la mode : une approche biomimétique des teintures écoresponsables. PhD Dissertation, Concordia University.