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Dr. Erin Manning, 3Ecologies Project

Professor, Studio Arts
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Dr. Erin Manning, 3Ecologies Project
Office: S-VA 240  
Visual Arts Building,
1395 René Lévesque W.
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 5852
Email: erin.manning@concordia.ca
Website(s): Erin Manning
3Ecologies Project
Inflexions

Erin Manning studies in the interstices of philosophy, aesthetics and politics, concerned, always, about alter-pedagogical and alter-economic practices. Pedagogical experiments are central to her work, some of which occur at Concordia University in Montreal where she is a research chair in Speculative Pragmatism, Art and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Fine Arts. Recent monographs include The Minor Gesture (Duke 2016), For a Pragmatics of the Useless (2020) and Out of the Clear (forthcoming, minor compositions). Her artwork is textile-based and relationally-oriented, often participatory. She is interested in the detail of material complexity, in what reveals itself to perception sideways, in the quality of a textural engagement with life. Her work often plays synesthetically with touch, of recent in acknowledgement and experimentation with the ProTactile movement for DeafBlind culture and language. Tactile propositions include large-scale hangings produced with a diversity of tools including tufting, hooking, knotting, weaving. 3e is the main direction her current research takes - an exploration of the transversality of the three ecologies, the social, the environmental and the conceptual (3ecologies.org). An iteration of 3e is a land-based project north of Montreal where living and learning is experimented. Legacies of SenseLab infuse the project, particularly the question of how collectivity is crafted in a more-than human encounter with worlds in the making. 

Areas of expertise

Philosophy, radical pedagogy, blackness, neurodiversity, choreographic practice, participatory art, activism

Research interests

Movement, Relation, Process philosophy, Research-creation, Neurodiversity, Black Studies, DeafBlind research/ProTactile, Textile/relational art, Sculpture, Procedural architecture, Radical pedagogy


Teaching activities

Teaching interests

  • Traffic Engineering
  • Urban Transportation Planning
  • Transportation Analysis
  • Advanced Transportation Topics
  • Traffic operations and control

  • Modeling and simulation for dynamic transportation networks

  • Intelligent transportation and information systems

  • Transportation systems scalability

  • Soft computing and emerging technologies in transportation

Courses

  • ENGR 213 - Applied Differential Equations
  • CIVI 372 - Transportation Engineering
  • CIVI 474 - Transportation Planning and Design
  • CIVI 6401 - Transportation Systems Analysis
  • CIVI 6411 - Urban Transportation Planning
  • CIVI 6441 - Traffic Engineering


Publications

Selected refereed journal publications

  • M. Karimi, C. Roncoli, C. Alecsandru, and M. Papageorgiou, COOPERATIVE MERGING CONTROL VIA TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION IN MIXED VEHICULAR TRAFFIC.  Journal of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 116 (2020)
  • M. Karimi and C. Alecsandru. A TWO-FOLD CALIBRATION APPROACH FOR MICROSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION MODELS. IET Intelligent Transportation Systems Vol 13, Issue 10 (2019)
  • M. Karimi, Miriestahbanati, H. Esmaeeli, C. Alecsandru. MULTI-OBJECTIVE STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS TO CALIBRATE MICROSIMULATION MODELS, Journal of Transportation Research Board, Volume: 2673 issue: 4 (2019)
  • C. Li, M. Karimi, C. Alecsandru. MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION-BASED HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE SAFETY AND OPERATION ASSESSMENT: A CASE STUDY. Journal of Advanced Transportation, Vol 2018, Issue 4, pp. 367-386.
  • H. Shahrokhi, C. Alecsandru, R. Maghsoudi, L. Amador. AN EFFICIENT SOFT COMPUTING-BASED CALIBRATION METHOD FOR MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION MODELS. Journal of Transportation Safety and Security, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 4, pp. 367-386.
  • Rouhieh, B. and C. Alecsandru. OPTIMIZING ROUTE CHOICE IN MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2014, 41(9), pp. 800-810
  • Alecsandru, C., S. Ishak, and Y. Qi. PASSENGER CAR EQUIVALENTS OF TRUCKS ON FOUR-LANE RURAL FREEWAYS UNDER LANE RESTRICTION AND DIFFERENT TRAFFIC CONDITIONS. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2012 39(10), pp. 1145-1155.
  • Rouhieh, B. and C. Alecsandru. ADAPTIVE ROUTE CHOICE MODEL FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEMS: AN APPLICATION OF MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 39(8), pp. 915-924
  • Y. Qi, S. Ishak, B. Wolshon, and C. Alecsandru. Traffic Behavior and Compliance to Truck-Lane restrictions on Four-Lane Rural Freeways. Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, 2011, 4(2), 160-177
  • Alecsandru, C., B. Rouhieh, T. C. K. Huang.  Traffic Safety and Operations on Shared-Access Facilities: An Urban Arterial Case Study. Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, 2010, (1)2, 101-120
  • Wolshon, B., S. Ishak, Y. Qi, M. Korkut, X. Sun, and C. Alecsandru.  Perceptions of Lane Restriction and Differential Speed Limit Policies on Freeways. Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, 2009, 1:2, 101-120
  • Ishak, S., S. Kondagari, and C. Alecsandru. A Probabilistic Data-driven Approach For Real-time Screening Of Freeway Traffic Data. Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2012, pp. 94-104, 2007
  • Alecsandru, C., S. Ishak, and Y. Zhang. An Optimal Downsampling Procedure for Microscopic Simulation Modeling of Transportation Networks: A Proof-of-Concept Study. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 34, No 1, 2007
  • Ishak, S., C. Alecsandru, and S. Chakravarthy. Potential Computational Benefits of Geometric, Kinematic, and Behavioral Downsampling of Microscopic Traffic Network Simulation. ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, No. 20, 2006
  • Ishak, S., C. Alecsandru, and D. Seedah. Improvement and Evaluation of the Cell-Transmission Model for Operational Analysis of Traffic Networks: A Freeway Case Study. Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1965, pp. 171–182, 2006
  • Ishak, S., and C. Alecsandru. Analysis of Freeway Preincident, Postincident, and Nonincident Conditions Using Second-Order Spatiotemporal Traffic Performance Measures. Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1925, pp. 20–28, 2005.
  • Alecsandru, C. and S. Ishak. A Hybrid Model-Based and Memory-Based Traffic Prediction System. Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1879: pp. 59-70, 2004.
  • Ishak, S. and C. Alecsandru. Optimizing Traffic Prediction Performance of Neural Networks under Various Topological, Input, and Traffic Condition Settings. ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, 130(4): pp. 452-465, 2004.
  • Ishak, S., P. Kotha, and C. Alecsandru. Optimization of Dynamic Neural Network Performance for Short-Term Traffic Prediction. Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1836: pp. 45-56, 2003

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