Date & time
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Conferences & lectures
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Rewilding arts and science
Speaker(s)
Khadija Baker, Emma Despland, Helen Gregory, Natasha Lavdovsky, Sylvia Rack, and Mathilde Tissier
Cost
This event is free and open to the public
Organization
Loy. Coll. Diversity & Sustainability & Sustainability Res. Cntr / Dept. Design & Computation Arts
Contact
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
4TH SPACE
Accessible location
Yes
Rewilding; photo credit of Khadija Baker
The panel will focus on how interdisciplinary practice between science and the arts can strengthen creativity and ingenuity between practices.
About the panelists
Khadija Baker is an independent artist and alumnus of Concordia's MFA and PhD programs. Among many accolades, Khadija is winner of the 2023 David Suzuki Foundation Rewilding Arts Prize.
Emma Despland is Professor in the Department of Biology at Concordia University. She researches plant-insect interactions.
Helen Gregory is Curator at the McIntosh Gallery at Western University. Helen curated the 2023 David Suzuki Foundation Rewilding Arts Prize exhibit.
Natasha Lavdovsky is an artist who completed a bachelor's degree in studio art and art history at Princeton University in 2009, where she also studied geosciences and environmental studies. In 2023, she earned an MFA in Intermedia Studio Art from Concordia University.
Sylvia Rack is an emerging artist working between Montreal and Boynton, Quebec, with an interest in the microcosm of specialized plant/insect relationships. She is currently completing an MFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University.
Mathilde Tissier is a researcher from the Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France, and UQAM. She works on interdisciplinary approach to soil plant animal interactions.
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 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; 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.
This event is part of:
In.site2 and Sustainability across disciplines