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.
We acknowledge that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we gather today. Tiohtià:ke/Montréal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations. Today, it is home to a diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. We respect the continued connections with the past, present and future in our ongoing relationships with Indigenous and other peoples within the Montreal community.
If you are not joining from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, you can learn more about the land you are on here.
Much of the work featured this week is the work of or supported by graduate students supported through RA and TAships. We recognize their crucial role in research and teaching at the University.
Student artwork on display at 4th Space Monday, March 17th through Wednesday, March 19th (1400 DeMaisonneuve O.)
Come see exciting work by our student artists! Exhibitors include Crissy Jarvis, Sandrine Meunier-Geoffroy, Emily Bain, Pramila Choudhary, Dale Crockett, Lucy Gill, Anna Noel, Loriane Thibodeau, Daniel Gilberg, and Teresa Dorey
Panels, workshops, and scheduled events
10:00-11:15 AM: A critical look at current topics in sustainability science, with Michael Ekwe, Rosa Castillo, Zahra Najmi, Hope Moon, Italo Ferreira Pereira, Megan Tremblay, Susan Ly, Anthony Garoufalis-Auger, Tessa Hansen, Shudhi Ahuja, and Etienne Issa.
11:45 AM-12:45 PM: Careers in sustainability, with Emmanuel Addoquaye, Lidiya Beida, and Anne-Marie Laflamme
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: Forest documents: A reading room immersed within an old growth forest, 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 (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), and Charlett Wenig (Max Planck Society, Germany)
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 Yuen Kit Lo and Myra Lintaman; IN PERSON ONLY **SOLD OUT
3:45-4:45 PM: Rewilding arts and science, with Sylvia Rack, Khadija Baker, Natasha Lavdovsky, Helen Gregory, Emma Despland, Mathilde Tissier
5:15-5:45 PM: Sustainability shorts: Discussions and presentations by the exhibition designers and artists including two student short films, with films by Suzannah Zakour and Diego Cervantes, Mirdhula Kanapathypillai, Melissa Michailidis, and Julia Teoli Calabro
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-12:25 PM: Sustainable material research: A report on interdisciplinary initiatives, with Kelly Jazvac
12:25-12:45 PM: SOFA Action Plan Launch – Sustainability of the Fine Arts with Kelly Jazvac
1:15 PM-2:00 PM: A climate of hope collage event with the Climate Emergency Committee
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 Zachary Fleury, Warsame Isse, pk langshaw, Julia Kathrin Lehmann, and Elizabeth (Liz) Miller, and Adriana Miranda
4:45-5:15: What have we learned?
10:00-11:30 AM: Uncovering sustainable pathways with life cycle assessment, a panel and workshop with Shannon Lloyd, Ivan Kantor, Alireza Adli, Mina Daneshmandi, Neda Nikbakht, Mohammad Reza Seyedabadi, Juan Sebastian Rojas, Parsa Shirzad, and Martin Zorrilla (H 1220)
12:30-1:30 PM: Our embodied presence and the climate crisis: Trauma, the nervous system, and inner and outer sustainability, a workshop with Bonnie Harnden (H 1220)
2:00-3:00 PM: A radical proposal for municipal public services, with Xabier Gainza Barrencua (H 1269)
9:45-11:15 AM: Greening the city, with Jochen Jaeger, Dalia Assi, Gaëlle Poirier-Morin, Niraj Dayanandan, Cédric Gazal, Annabel Durr, and Richelle Smith (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 PM: Environmental science, sustainability, and biodiversity poster session and exhibit, with Niraj Dayanandan, Sandrine Meunier-Geoffroy, Ana Lívia de Castro Severo de Oliveira, and Amanda Grégoire (RF 130)
12:15-1:15 PM: Lunch (RF 120)
1:15-2:30 PM: Issues in sustainability across disciplines, with Peter Graham, Valérie Bolduc, Julia Calabro, Melika Safari, Sabrina Mruczek, and Matthew Segal (RF 110)
2:45-3:30 PM: Sustainability in the lab: Case studies from the sciences, with Brett Cox, Pat Forgione, Ashlee Howarth, and Sarah Taylor (RF 110)
2:45-3:30 PM: Nature connections: Exploring relational values of nature through art on Loyola Campus: A workshop with Sarah Chamberland-Fontaine and Bella Richmond (RF 120)
3:45-4:30 PM: Motivating response/ability towards the ecological emergency: A workshop, with Jessica Bleuer, Heather McLaughlin, and Bonnie Harnden (RF 120)
4:45-5:30 PM: Sustainability programming in the CEGEPs, with Jessica Burpee, Arrien Weeks, Jennifer de Vera, and Azra Khan (RF 110)
5:30: Closing words (RF 110)
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, Innovation and Impact, the Office of Sustainability; Career Advising and Professional Services; 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.
