A workshop to try out screen printing basics and experiment with found inks on different surfaces! For this closing event of the in.site symposium, you’re invited to take apart the exhibition, print all over it, and bring it home with you. The designers from Concordia alumni-founded screen printing studio French […]
Capacity is limited to 15 participants, please register here Join us on a two-hour bike tour to explore Île Notre Dame with artist/scholars Isabelle Boucher and Elizabeth Miller from Communication Studies. The tour is part of the locative App, WasteScapes. Shifting our gaze from the city of Montreal to the […]
A short workshop on new materialism and the performance of the non-human, exploring breath as a trans-species process in performance. All stuff breathes. How might this respiration serve as a connective force, an inspiration for interactions, artworks, and material gestures? Artist Meghan Moe Beitiks explores. About Meghan Moe Beitiks Meghan […]
Maximum capacity of 16 people, register here before attending the workshop Patchworking is a great way to extend the life cycle of small fabric scraps or worn-out textiles that are no longer usable. This beginner-friendly workshop will introduce participants to fundamental techniques for joining fabrics with an emphasis on textile […]
This presentation will address different projects of the Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality and its affiliated laboratory, the Speculative Life Biolab of the Milieux Institute (dir. Dr. Alice Jarry). Through research-creation that combines with material and environmental science practices, the Chair draws on the […]
In the late 1980s, the Canadian Pacific Railway abandoned a rail yard on the outskirts of Montreal’s Mile End district. Within a few years, the return of animal and plant species encouraged the citizen community to reinvest this site, now known as the Champ des Possibles (CdP). Despite community efforts […]
Capacity is limited to 16 participants, please register here STAIN Lab presents a workshop and discussion on ethical harvesting and solar dyeing. This will be an introductory workshop about foraging and natural dyeing. Participants will learn about different local dyeing plants and food waste that can be used to dye […]
Catherine and Anne-Marie will talk about the driving forces behind the brand and how design is approached by their team. atelier b is a minimalist design studio specialising in clothing collections for men, women and children made slowly in Montreal from natural fiber textiles. Slow design and sustainability are central […]
ww2 historic data is gathered to un.fold the parachute project. silk parachutes were used extensively to drop soldiers, supplies, animals from planes to targets on the ground. in war companies that designed luxurious expensive lingerie turned their garment production over to parachute manufacturing. decommissioned parachutes were repurposed, resewn into wedding […]
Dr Miranda Smitheram, Assistant Professor of Material Futures, Dept of Design and Computation Arts. With research and design by Sita Singh, Juan Esteban Mejia Gomez, and Catherine Vien-Bachand Sustainability is a multispecies matter. Through an introduction to centering deep and reciprocal collaboration with environments and multispecies within research-creation, we will […]