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Take Heed

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Take Heed is a set of wearable vests that use moving panels and haptic feedback to create an intimate and immersive experience that opens a discussion on mental health. The interdisciplinarity of Take Heed involves programming, electronics, a web database, and experimental fashion design. Take Heed is a year-long medium-term project that encourages female and…

REEF

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REEF aims to design and build a modular artificial ceramic base reef using 3D printing to house farmed corals. This structure would act as a building block and flourish over time to promote the re-growth of dying and/or damaged coral reefs. A lot of testing needs to be done, as REEF plans to use either…

Pledge to Lead

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Under the Paris Agreement, the world has pledged to limit global temperature increases with the aim of avoiding the worst potential impacts of unmitigated global warming. This goal will require a major societal transformation, leading to the rapid elimination of greenhouse gas emissions. We, as individuals in the Concordia community, have a key role to…

SHED

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The SHED aims to promote a culture of change around reuse through furniture upcycling, tool literacy and collaborative consumption. In its full form, the SHED will provide an accessible space to transform and repair usable but previously unwanted materials, with a key focus on furniture. Members will be invited to participate in a series of…

SEIZE

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2019-20 2018-19 Following the success of SEIZE’s curriculum series “Fundamentals of the Solidarity Economy” (see below), we are launching into the next phase of our campaign, which is to host a large-scale conference on the solidarity economy at Concordia. This conference will showcase the tremendous work the Concordia community has engaged in through the years…

Women & Homelessness Symposium

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This symposium invites students and faculty members alike to share and to co-create new knowledge by actively engaging in collaborative workshops, panels, and discussions with policy makers, as well as Montreal shelters and organisations that support homeless women. The symposium’s goal is to highlight current gaps in addressing women’s homelessness in Montreal from a gender…

Queer Between the Covers Bookfair

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The Queer Between the Covers (QBtC) book fair aims to provide access to queer written materials, prioritizing traditionally marginalized voices and a variety of queer experiences. We seek to provide access to materials that promote anti-racism, anti-capitalism, anti-colonialism, anti-ableism, feminism and gender and body self-determination. We want to consider whose stories are being told and…

Waste Not, Want Not Compost Project

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“Waste Not, Want Not” is a collaboration between students, faculty (Loyola Sustainability Research Center, LSRC), and administration, to better integrate composting in everything that we do. We propose a 3-track approach to establishing a complete compost cycle at Concordia: a) Access to composters, and qualified operators, within reach (currently Concordia composts at a facility in…

Concordia Farmers’ Market

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In order to provide Concordia students with easier access to locally and organically grown food, we are setting up a farmers’ market on the downtown campus in the Concordia Green Space. The purpose of the Concordia Farmers’ Market is to make sustainable eating possible for all students in terms of affordability and convenience. Aside from providing…

Peer Access Advocacy Service (PAAS)

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This collaborative consultative series combines the expertise of PAAS’ Louw and Jung in critical disability work, and C-FAR’s own expertise in community consultation design. Since September 2016 C-FAR has been facilitating community consultations on a wide-range of topics pertaining to equity, inclusion and Concordia student experiences. In an effort to address the particular barriers to…
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