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Chinatown Re-imagined Forum / Montreal 2023 (Re-imagine a future for Chinatowns across North America)

After seeing the success of Vancouver’s first example of Chinatown Re-imagined, the Montréal community plans to host the second edition on September 28-30, 2023 (https://www.chinatownreimagined.ca). This three-day long event will host a number of panels and events for community members of Chinatown across Canada and North America as well as the general public so that…

Exploring Sustainability Across the Arts

Exploring Sustainability Across the Arts (ESA) is a year-long initiative that aims to explore sustainable alternatives to vinyl signage in museums, galleries, and other arts and cultural spaces, as well as examining perspectives on sustainability across the arts. The project contributes to a zero-waste culture at Concordia University with a uniquely-situated artistic focus, by offering…

Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Skills Development Workshop in Data Activism

Over the past two decades, increasingly complex regimes for accessing information have made it challenging for activists to unpack and confront government and corporate practices. Access to information is brokered through a web of platforms and procedures demanding information users become skilled at collecting and analyzing data. In this context, how can social activists generate…

Sustainable Transformations

Creating an interdisciplinary network of scholars, established artists and emerging artists; made up of a majority of Concordia community members. This network of individuals dedicated to social/environmental change will work together throughout the year to research alternative arts curriculums culminating in a two-week festival hosted half in nature and half at the Concordia campus. These…

Co-op CultivAction

Market Garden InternshipCSA BasketUrban Agriculture SchoolMarket Garden Internship In partnership with the Concordia Food Coalition, Professor Erik Chevrier and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, CultivAction Solidarity Cooperative proposes to offer five students paid internships, for credit, to work with the Concordia Microgreens Program, Loyola Farm and the Concordia Farmers Market. Students will get…

mind. heart. mouth.

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The mind.heart.mouth intergenerational garden offers a positive and innovative approach to building community care and resilience through nature-based experiential learning, which is essential at this time of health, social, and environmental crises. Since its creation in 2019, mind.heart.mouth has gotten most of its help from SAF and the Sustainability Living Lab. This support has made…

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…

Deep Time Walk in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal

The Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based Deep Time Walk (DTW) takes inspiration from the DTW App. Created in 2007, this app invites users to walk a distance of 4.6 km while listening to a narration that retraces the 4.6 billion years history of the Earth. Endorsed by famed scholars Kate Raworth, Bruno Latour, and Ian Stewart, the DTW project…

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…
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