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
Dominion
Dominion is a research/creation project focused on the manufactured prairie, examining through it the modern project to map,
mark, and transform the Earth. Such efforts are epitomized by the 19th century subdivision of the prairies by the Dominion Land
Survey (DLS) (c. 1878). The grid of the DLS has an intriguing resonance with 21st century systems of mapping and representing
the Earth. These too divide the planet's surface into repeating geometric elements — satellite tiles — which are sewn together to
produce an ostensibly seamless map.
Yet both these mapping projects fall short of their goals. Natural features, alternative understandings of occupation and ownership,
cycles of river and rain, all disrupt the controlling grid of the DLS. Similarly, our attempts to standardize and commodify the image
of the Earth fall prey to glitches and anomalies, failures in the sophisticated systems we have created to manage representation. In
Dominion, these accidental byproducts of our contemporary imaging tools are the lens through which we perceive the longer, and
ongoing, historical failure of attempts to control the world — of which architecture is often a key tool.
The paper discusses these ideas with reference to one of the products of Dominion —16 Trajectories (installed at Atmosphere 10);
to works by other artists working popular imaging platforms, for example MishkaHenner and Jon Rafman; to writing on the theory
of history of technology and media, particularly Bernard Stiegler; and to the implications of these for how we look at architecture,
landscape, and regional planning. The paper will also provide a brief technical overview of 16 Trajectories, outlining the tools used
to gather and manipulate imagery and sound, and the choices made in selecting both.
ELLEN GRIMES, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
History's Future Fabrics: New Models for Historic Ecologies
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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