PRESENTERS

FABRICATING TRUTH

 

 

 

PALLAVI SWARANJALI, Carleton University

 

Forging Architecture: The Contronymic Nature of Architectural Creation in the work of

 

Indian Ar. B.V.Doshi

 

 

 

 

STEVEN BEITES, Laurentian University

 

Context Through Awareness

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

ELLEN GRIMES, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

History's Future Fabrics: New Models for Historic Ecologies

 

 

 

 

NIKOLE BOUCHARD, University of Wisconsin

 

(H)our House

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

Public space is a modern fabrication. It emerges from spatial theory crafted in the mid- twentieth century as a tool to defend open and shared spaces in the modern

 

city. The term public space made its most significant early appearances in Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) and quietly in Jane Jacobs’ The Death and

 

Life of Great American Cities (1961). These two eloquent and enduring arguments for the value of the common world helped define the many spatial theories of loss

 

that have come since then, most of them organized around the idea (or ideal) of public space and the great loss of the city as it once (never really) was. By the

 

accounts of the city in most of these theories, public space is on its last legs. It has been erased, suppressed, sub-contracted, sold off, fenced off, filled in and built

 

upon. While it is true that the common space of the city is always in transformation, this presentation offers a theoretical proposition, which sees this

 

transformation as a constructive strength. As a counterpoint to the theoretical roots of public space (particularly in Anglo-European and American spatial theory) I

 

propose a constructive addition to theories of public space grounded in the pragmatic writings of Walter Lippmann’s The Phantom Public (1925) and John Dewey’s

 

The Public and its Problems (1927). Dewey and Lippmann drew attention to problem of politics centered on the role of the ‘informed citizen’, given the complexity of

 

the globalized world, suggesting a more tangible understanding of how specific publics are formed around emerging issues. In this presentation, I will examine

 

particular cases of temporary art and design interventions (into the common spaces of the city) through the pragmatic theory of Dewey and Lippmann, to offer a more

 

constructive dimension to our understanding of the common spaces of the city and our existing theories 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