In.Site2 and Sustainability across Disciplines
A Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Arts and Science Collaboration
March 17-21, 2025; Concordia University
March 17-21, 2025; Concordia University
This collaborative, multi-event symposium will include presentations, interactive and participatory sessions, workshops, short films, and exhibitions highlighting both the strengths of diverse fields and the potential for innovative solutions to be developed through multidisciplinary discourse and practice. The symposium is designed to encourage collaboration between different disciplines; provide a forum for the exchange of knowledge, ideas and best practice; and encourage students and faculty researchers to explore unique ways of communicating, with a special focus on collaborations with the arts.
10:00-11:15 AM: A critical look at current topics in sustainability science
11:45 AM-12:45 PM: Careers in sustainability
1:30-2:15 PM: Soil stories, with Anna Noel and Melody Lynch
2:45-3:45 PM: CRUST – Ceramics Reimagined Using Sustainable Techniques, with Linda Swanson, Teresa Dorey, Daniel Gillberg, and Loriane Thibodeau
4:15-6:00 PM: Elastic forest spaces, with Leila Sujir, John Latour, Sarah Turner, and Jorge Zavagno
10:00-11:00 AM: Active matter and environmental relations, with Alice Jarry, Natalija Miodragovic, and Charlotte Wenig
12:00-1:00 PM: Zines as a form of material resistance, with Kevin Yuen Kit Lo
1:15-2:00 PM: Zines for sustainability workshop, with Kevin Yeun Kit Lo; IN PERSON ONLY
3:45-4:45 PM: Rewilding arts and science, with Sylvia Rack, Khadija Baker, Natasha Lavdovsky, Helen Gregory, Emma Despland, Mathilde Tissier
10:00-10:45 AM: Angles of consequence: Site-specific solar performance for the climate, with Meghan Moe Beitiks, Zoe Heffring, Alexia Maldonado Juarez, Milena Pereira, and Christine White
11:45 AM-12:30 PM: Sustainable material research: A report on interdisciplinary initiatives, with Kelly Jazvac
2:30-3:15 PM: The Atmospheres of walkability: Considering diverse sensory experiences for sustainable mobility, with Florian Grond, Melissa Parks (McGill), and Emily Bain
3:45-4:45 PM: Why are documentary films important to multidisciplinary sustainability research and practice? with Liz Miller, Adriana Miranda, and pk langshaw
4:45-5:15: What have we learned?
10:00-11:15 AM: Sustainability in the city, with Jochen Jaeger, Dalia Assi, Gaëlle Poirier-Morin, Niraj Dayanandan, Annabel Durr (RF 110)
11:30 AM-12:15 PM: Harnessing emotions to inspire climate action: A workshop with Heather McLaughlin (RF 120)
12:15-1:15: Environmental Science, Sustainability, and Biodiversity poster session and Lunch (RF 130)
1:15-2:30: Issues in transport, growth, architecture, and the Anthropocene, with Peter Graham, Valérie Bolduc, Julia Calabro, Melika Safari, and Sabrina Mruczek (RF 110)
1:15-2:30: Our embodied presence and the climate crisis: Trauma, the nervous system, and inner and outer sustainability, a workshop with Bonnie Harnden (RF 120)
2:45-3:30: Sustainability in the lab: Case studies from the sciences, with Brett Cox, Ashlee Howarth and Pat Forgione (RF 110)
2:45-3:30: Nature connections: Exploring relational values of nature through art on Loyola Campus: A workshop with Sarah Chamberlain-Fontaine (RF 120)
3:45-4:30: Motivating response/ability towards the ecological emergency: A workshop with Jessica Bleuer, Heather McLaughlin, Erin Baker, Christian Scott Martone Donde, and Cedric Jamet
4:45-5:30: Sustainability programming in the CEGEPS, with Jessica Burpee and Jennifer de Vera
5:30: Closing words
Contact us
For more information, contact Rebecca Tittler or pk langshaw.
This event is brought to you by the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, and the Department of Design and Computation Arts in collaboration with 4TH SPACE, with the support of the SOFA Sustainable Fine Arts and Studio Arts Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies; the Office of Sustainability; the School of Community and Public Affairs and First Peoples Studies; the Science College; the Faculty of Fine Arts; and the Departments of Communication Studies; Geography, Planning and Environment; and Political Science at Concordia University.
This event will contribute to the Sustainability in Research section of Concordia's Sustainability Action Plan by increasing the visibility of sustainability research at Concordia.
All participants are expected to treat each other with consideration and respect. Please review the detailed code of conduct.
Territorial acknowledgement
Concordia University and most of the participants in this event will be located in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), on the unceded lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, one of the founding nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. If you are not in Tiohtià:ke, you can find out whose land you are on.
