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De Souche: Designing a Contextually Relevant Biomaterial

De Souche is an interdisciplinary workshop series that aims to transform an invasive aquatic plant species in Quebec – Eurasian milfoil – into a new biomaterial and to inspire the integration of sustainable design practices to Concordia’s students and faculty. These workshops will merge the expertise and imagination of affected communities, cross-sectorial stakeholders, an interdisciplinary…
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CEED: Lift Every Voice: Amplifying Black Voices in Montreal

CEED’s mission has always been to center youth in vulnerable communities and empower them by equipping them with the necessary skills that will place them in an ideal position to support their communities. As the Black Lives Matters movement is sweeping the world by storm and becoming globalized, we recognize and acknowledge that Canada, too,…
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Concordia Co-op Bookstore Online Platform

The Concordia Community Solidarity Co-op Bookstore has been a fee levy organization and not-for-profit retailer on campus for nearly 20 years. It is the campus alternative to FollettCorporation, an American contractor who has taken over the Book Store’s operations as of June 2020. The Co-op Bookstore has been hard at work throughout our COVID-19 closure…

iGEM

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2020-20212019-20202016-20172013-20142020-2021 Veggie burgers, algae shrimp, vegan cheeses, synthetic flavors, and animal-free egg whites are making their way into our restaurants and supermarket shelves. What consumers may not realize, however, is that many of these foods are made using synthetic biology, an emerging science that applies principles of genetic engineering to redesign organisms for useful purposes.…

CARE

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‘CARE : Process and Material Considerations for Sustainability in Fine Arts’ is a research initiative supported by the SOFA Committee to identify and address key issues at Concordia University relating to sustainable material use and taught method(s) within Fine Arts. Resulting in a best practice PDF guide, the first iteration of this project will focus…

Interstice

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INTERSTICE is the Concordia University Master of Design final research exhibition of the 2020 cohort of 10 students, displaying their final thesis research-creation projects at Anteism Gallery, located in Montreal’s Mile End neighborhood. The exhibition running from April 28th to May 3rd, 2020, provides both our cohort and the Design department at large, the opportunity…

Concordia University Art History Undergraduate Conference

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2019-20 2018-19 The 9th Annual Concordia University Undergraduate Art History Conference draws on the concept of placemaking within contemporary landscapes, the conference, Place Listening : Exploring Material Narratives, aims to discuss the dynamic relationships between materiality, overlapping historical narratives, and involuntary memory to open a discourse for reconciliation. With a vast colonial history, material facets…

Social Leadership in Action

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Social Leadership in Action is a workshop that will give students experience on sustainable social entrepreneurship. Students will learn how to use business as a tool to tackle real-life social problems. Additionally, we will co-host a workshop with CEED to explain the impact of climate change in developing countries and its effects in business operations,…

Climate Change: Social Impacts Panel

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Vanessa Nakate, a young Ugandan environmental activist, is making waves in the news and especially in the environmental community. She gained a lot of international attention when she was recently cropped out of a photo by a major news outlet that pictured her and other young climate activists, including Greta Thunberg. She used this incident…
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