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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 – Social Economy Incubator Basic Curriculum

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2019/2020- 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 to…

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…

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…

Queer CATs – Speaker Series on Sexual and Gender Diversity in Mental Health Professions

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This speaker series is organized by a group of Creative Arts Therapy graduate students at Concordia to offer supplementary special topics education regarding sexual and gender diversity. These are important issues which are not adequately covered in current course curricula but are essential considerations for training culturally sensitive therapists. As a population with a high…

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…

Entomo Collective

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The Entomo Collective is an initiative aimed at Concordia students to advocate for entomophagy, the practice of eating insects. We will have a stall at the Concordia farmers market every week where we will share insect snacks, have conversations, and get feedback and ideas with students, staff, and anyone else. We will also hold promotional…

CUTE Magazine

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Each semester, people involved in Comités Unitaires sur le Travail Étudiant (Student Work United Committees) are editing a magazine that aimed to be distributed through the province. This magazine started as a French only publication but now became bilingual: we have both copies in French and in English. The magazine covers the topics discussed by…

Post-Capitalist Archive

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The goal of this project is to provide an array of viewpoints about how to develop a post-capitalist society by interviewing and making available video interviews with experts in the field. The videos will be hosted on a website (domain to be determined) and on a YouTube channel. Montreal, especially Concordia, has been at the…

Ethical Textile Design Project

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This research/project is influenced by this following observation: we (Western society) are an over-consuming society, and it has huge negative impacts on Earth and its human and non- human inhabitants. I am doing a research on diverse fabrics made from natural and manufactured fibers to better understand the material used to make specific fabrics, and…
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