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Urban Resilience Panel

The four panelists are: Ursula Eicker, Lourdenie Jean, a representative from Coalition Climate Mtl, and Irène Cloutier. We recognize that oftentimes, community voices are the last one to be consulted on important matters that disproportionately affects them the most. As students, we are seeking for the safest and most accessible space and most meaningful way…

The Greenhouse Terrarium

The Greenhouse Terrarium project aims to build a terrarium in the space where the old water tank is near the Greenhouse door.  The terrarium would be greenhouse friendly, meaning it would have no animals in it and no toxic soil, fertilizers or pest control. The terrarium will contribute to the overall aesthetic of the greenhouse…

MATTEReality: Sustainable Studios

(An extension of the MATTEReality: Reconciling Ceramics and Sustainability) For millennia prior to the industrial revolution, ceramics were produced sustainably in communities around the world. In recent times, however, these locally oriented operations have been all but squashed by an industrial model that produces standardized materials shipped globally. Concordia’s Ceramics Program has taken important steps…

Drywall Recycling Project

    The goal of the project is to make the recycling of drywall easier and more accessible, allowing the products to be reused for other applications. Drywall recycling exists on the industrial scale and is an inconvenient disposal method for the general contractor to use. The team is developing a machine capable of breaking…

Une Laveuse S.V.P.

Une Laveuse S.V.P is a 10min. short film, that follows Romanian immigrant Alina as she faces many obstacles created by a flawed system and French Canadian ideologies when she decides to buy a washing machine. She deals with the struggle of miscommunication. It is a film that explores the inequalities that are born from these…

FDM Printer Material Recycling Machine – Team 20

Additive manufacturing applications have surged in recent years and have become a crucial method for quick prototyping and creating customized structures. FDM printing in particular is the most popular as it comes with affordable prices, adequate sizes, and easy operation. One major disadvantage of 3D printing is the generation of waste; one example would be…

Hungry Bin Pilot Project

Currently, all greenhouse waste is managed with the university’s compost service, where it is shipped off-site to be processed. With the recent rise of vermicomposting on campus, we see the opportunity to pilot a better system. The Hungry Bin is considered one of the best industrial vermicomposting solutions on the market. Being able to process…

Solvent Recovery Initiative

The goal of the Solvent Recovery Initiative Team is to design protocols to recycle and reuse solvents in chemistry laboratories at Concordia. Starting as a team of 15 in the Howarth lab, they will extensively test different methods for recycling and purifying solvent waste like (1) simple filtration, (2) centrifugation, and (3) rotary evaporation. We…

Engaging Solarity

The Milieux Solar Media Project explores the affordances of solar energy for digital communication systems through research-creation and learning-by-doing. Against the backdrop of the Internet’s carbon footprint, our project is not only an exercise in decarbonizing data storage systems and web traffic, but also in envisioning and creating alternative solar-powered infrastructures and speculative designs. In…

Engineering Design & Manufacturing Lab Library of Parts

Concordia engineering students produce new capstone and extra-curricular projects every year, usually by purchasing parts they need brand new. While some projects require state-of-the-art resources, many teams are relegated to purchasing what they could have easily re-used. There is currently a wealth of used parts and materials left over from past projects being stored in…
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