CITIES: URBAN ESSENTIALS
January 9 - January 23, 2019
What are the essentials that make a city sustainable, resilient, livable and playable? During the Cities: Urban Essential programming, 4TH SPACE brought together faculty, students, the city, and industry to collaborate, experiment and explore ideas about what the city is and what it could be in the future. With an interdiscplinary scope, visitors could engage in the latest research that is changing and improving the urban environment around them.
ARCHIVE
Art Hive
For the duration of the programming, this zone engaged visitors in the contemporary issues in and around the city in a creative way.
Mycelium in the Field of Public Transport Design
Created by Théo Chauvirey, this installation showed a speculative design prototype that uses biomaterials to reimagine public transport metro cars.
Urban Design Improv Lab
A workshop proposing alternate urban design in Montreal by Silvano De La Llata (Assistant Professor, Geography Planning and the Environment).
Mini Metro Game
Created by the Dinosaur Polo Club, this interactive game allows you to create a minimalistic version of Montreal's subway.
Villes d'Avenir
A presentation by Jayne Engle (McConnell Foundation) and Johnathan Lapalme (Les interstices, Atelier de design stratégique).
PROGRAMMING
| PRESENTATION | A Look at Urban Sprawl | Jochen Jaeger, Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment | Thursday | 10 | January | 11:45am | to | 1pm |
| PANEL | Montreal Food Map Panel | Anna-Liisa Aunio, Adjunct Faculty Member, Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainabiilty, Fellow, Loyola Sutainability Research Centre | Monday | 14 | January | 1pm | to | 4pm |
| WORKSHOP | Urban Design Improv Lab | Silvano De La Llata, Assistant Professor Geography Planning and the Environment | Tuesday | 15 | January | 1pm | to | 5pm |
| PANEL | Scripting Gendered Mobilities | Govind Gopakumar, Associate Professor and Chair, Centre for Engineering, Concordia University, Sarwat Viqar, John Abbott College, Dipti Gupta, Dawson College and Film Studies, Concordia University | Wednesday | 16 | January | 11am | to | 12pm |
| PRESENTATION | Open Data: City of Montreal | Patrick Lozeau, Innovation and Open Data Adivsor, Montreal Urban Innovation Labworks | Wednesday | 16 | January | 2pm | to | 3pm |
PRIVATE EVENT |
City Cluster: A Social Mixer |
City Cluster / Maude Lecourt |
Wednesday | 16 | January
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5pm |
to | 7pm |
WORKSHOP |
Institute of Urban Futures, CoLLaboratoire, Concordia’s Office of Community Engagement |
Thursday | 17 | January |
10am |
to | 4pm | |
PRIVATE EVENT |
Closed Special Event |
4th Space |
Friday | 18 | January |
11am |
to | 1pm |
| PRESENTATION | Villes d'Avenir | Presentation by Jayne Engle (McConnell Foundation) and Johnathan Lapalme, Les interstices, Atelier de design stratégique | Friday | 18 | January | 2:30pm | to | 4pm |
EVENT |
PULSE Performance Salon Series |
Shauna Janssen, Concordia University Research Chair in New Scholar, Performative Urbanism |
Friday | 18 | January |
5pm |
to | 7pm |
| EVENT | City-Based Critical Research Community Discussion | Office of Community Engagement (OCE) | Monday | 21 | January | 12pm | to | 2pm |
| DISCUSSION | Public Practice Arts for the Health of a City | Janis Timm-Bottos, Associate Professor, Creative Arts Therapies | Monday | 21 | January | 3:00pm | to | 4:30pm |
PRESENTATION |
Montreal 2050 |
Seth Schultz, Founder, Urban Breakthroughs and Special Advisor to Global Covenant of Mayors on Science & Innovation |
Monday | 21 | January |
5:30pm |
to | 7:30pm |
WORKSHOP |
Solar Bus Shelter Workshop Afternoon |
Carmela Cucuzzella – New Scholar, Integrated Design, Ecology and Sustainability (IDEAS) for the Built Environment, Andreas Athienitis, Director Centre for Zero Energy Building Studies |
Tuesday | 22 | January | 1pm |
to | 4pm |
PRESENTATION |
Developing 2019-23 Action Plan of the “Plan métropolitain d'aménagement et de développement” |
Suzy Peate, Coordonnatrice exécutive, Communauté Métroplitain de Montréal |
Wednesday | 23 | January |
10am |
to | 12pm |
INSTALLATIONS
MATERIAL LIBRARY |
Creative Re-Use & the City | Concordia Centre for Creative Reuse (CUCCR) | CUCCR installation transformative process of found materials into new forms. |
| MAQUETTE DISPLAY | "The Beacon" Making a Solar Powered Bus Shelter | Carmela Cucuzzella, Associate Professor, Department of Design and Computation Arts, Andreas Athienitis, Director Centre for Zero Energy Building Studies |
A model and prototype from the competition to imagine a new type of shelter for public transport. |
| PROJECTION | Mapping Urban Sprawl | Jochen Jaeger with Craig Townsend | An illustrated look at the effects of urban sprawl. |
| RESIDENCY | Art Hive & Sand City | Art Hive and Creative Arts Therapies | A zone to interact and get creative with Art Hive around city issues. |
| LEARNING MODEL & VIDEO | Wind Tunnel Learning Model & Video of Wind Tunnel Lab | Theodore Stathopoulos, Professor, Dept. of Building, Civil and Environmental EngineeringMember, Centre for Building Studies | A video of the wind tunnel lab, an atmospheric boundary-layer wind tunnel, the only one of this type in Québec, Canada, created to study wind-building interaction. A smaller scale learning model is also on display. |
| INSTALLATION | Liquid Light | Nima Navab, Topological Media Lab | An interactive lighting experience driven by the data climate change that was featured at the Solar Decathalon competition with TEAMMTL. |
| MAQUETTE DISPLAY | New Generation of Sustainabile & Resilient Reinforced Masonry Buildings | Dr. Khaled Galal, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering | A maquette that shows the physical testing, numerical simulations and prototypes from the Concordia Structures Lab. |
| INTERACTIVE VIDEO | Ceci n’est pas un exercice de sensibilisation | Laurence Parent | A video and interactive vibrational cushion that demonstrates the ups and downs of navigating the city by wheelchair. |
| PROTOTYPE | Mycelium in the Field of Public Transport Design | Théo Chauvirey | A speculative design prototype that uses biomaterials to reimagine public transport metro cars. |
| MAP | Queering The Map | Lucas LaRochelle | |
| MAP | Lifecycles of Québec Private Enterprise | KPMG-JMSB Entrepreneurial Indices | Visualize the distribution of new businesses in Québec in 2015 and 2016. |
| MAP | Mini Metro | Dinosaur Polo Club | A minimalistic subway layout game - Montreal Edition |
