PRESENTERS
FABRICATING TRUTH
PALLAVI SWARANJALI, Carleton University
Forging Architecture: The Contronymic Nature of Architectural Creation in the work of
STEVEN BEITES, Laurentian University
KATIE GRAHAM, Carleton University
Architectural Storytelling in Virtual Reality: How VR Can Expand on Architectural Perception
TED LANDRUM, University of Manitoba
Poetry as Research: Fabricating Architectural Truth
FABRICATING IN SITU
SCOTT GERALD SHALL, Lawrence Technological University
Borrowed Intelligence: Leveraging Industrial Fabrication To Evolve Building Production
NAHID AHMADI, Carleton University
Asphalt Deserts: Rethinking the Architecture of Surface Parking Lots
DIETMAR STRAUB, University of Manitoba
A Beautiful Waste of Time: Operating a Snow Academy
JENNIFER SMITH, Auburn University
INCREMENTAL: Resilience through Disaster-Relief Housing
BRYAN HE, University of Manitoba
Making of the Hakka Vernacular
SOCIAL FABRICS
VALENTINA DAVILA, McGill University
Down the Back Stairs: Servants’ Spaces in Montreal’s Square Mile
LAWRENCE BIRD, Winnipeg
ELLEN GRIMES, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
History's Future Fabrics: New Models for Historic Ecologies
Conventional models of historic conservation are inadequate for post-industrial sites that operate at the scale of infrastructure. This essay examines how ecological
ideas and social network theory can shape new forms of conservation that simultaneously embrace the dynamics of ecosystems and the complex temporalities that
characterize human culture and imagination. My argument uses the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, an 8,000-hectare site in the American Midwest, as a case
study for these ideas. As climate change unfolds and the need to preserve, rebuild, and regenerate post-industrial brownfields becomes more urgent, planners and
designers need to devise more robust, dynamic, and adaptive models for heritage conservation.
Abandoning conventional approaches grounded in modernist visions of a perfect past will require a challenging mix of technical experiment and cultural initiative
that adapts models from ecological theory and critical social philosophy to the conservation of landscapes and buildings. Designers and planners will need to initiate
this new understanding of heritage by deploying two parallel strategies. The first strategy will require careful research into the ecological and economic performance
of various approaches to conservation. The second strategy asks us to change the lens through which we view heritage, and requires a public debate and discourse
that examines how we fabricate our histories and cultural understandings.
NIKOLE BOUCHARD, University of Wisconsin
RYAN STEC, Carleton University
Making Public Space: Examining Walter Lippmann & John Dewey’s pragmatism as a
constructive expansion to the spatial theory of public space
MEDIATING FABRICS
LANCELOT COAR, University of Manitoba
Lignes d’erre: Tracing the History and Future of Force Flow in Structures
FEDERICO GARCIA LAMMERS & JESSICA GARCIA FRITZ, South Dakota State University
Master Building Complex Forms in the Absence of Graphics
JOE KALTURNYK, Winnipeg
The Temporary and the Intermediate: Strategies for a Better Dinner
photo: Landon Lucyk [M2 Architecture]
The 2018 Atmosphere Symposium is co-chaired by: Lisa Landrum and Liane Veness with the support of the Faculty's Cultural Events Committee and the Centre for Architectural Structure and Technology (C.A.S.T.); web design and graphics support by Tali Budman (ED4 Architecture student), and administrative support from Brandy O’Reilly (Faculty of Architecture, Partners Program).
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