Workshops & seminars, Arts & culture

In.Site: Collaborative Sustainability Across the Fine Arts

Date & time

Monday, September 12, 2022 –
Friday, September 16, 2022
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Registration is closed

Cost

This event is free

Organization

In.Site

Where

J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
4TH SPACE

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

Join us for in.site, a symposium on sociocultural and environmental sustainability across the fine arts. Presented by SiFOFA, in.site explores the sustainable practices and pedagogies currently embedded in academic ecosystems of the Faculty of Fine Arts.

The symposium invites all to collaborate through research-creation, knowledge-sharing sessions, actionable workshops, and an installation of artistic works exploring the shifting meaning of sustainability in creative practice.

See full weekly schedule here:

Monday, September 12
10:30am - 11:15am	Symposium Opening with FOFA Dean, Annie Gérin
11:30am - 2:00pm	Discover Your Campus: Sustainability Fair
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Co-cogitate: Group Provocations on Sustainability
4:00pm - 5:00pm	Kelly Jazvac + Juan Ortiz-Apuy in Conversation
Tuesday, September 13
10:00am - 1:00pm	Mapping What We Try to Forget: Walk and Workshop
1:30pm - 2:00pm	The DNA Manifesto: Its Impact and Challenges for Design Education
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Hyper Local Plastic Recycling
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Mapping Concordia's Sustainability Ecosystem
Wed, September 14
10:00am - 11:00am	Culture of Colour: an Ecoliteracy of Textile Design
11:30am - 1:30pm	Ecopoetry Workshop
1:45pm - 2:15pm	Collaborating with Environments: Decolonial Bioplastics Cookbook Launch
2:15pm - 2:45pm	The Parachute Unfolds: Follow the Thread
2:45pm - 3:15pm	Rethinking Clothing Design, Circular Economy, + Collaborative Practices
Thursday, September 15
10:00am - 12:30pm	Solar Dyeing with Locally Foraged Plants: a STAIN Lab Workshop
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Cycles of Attraction
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Critical Materialities: Towards Resilient Environments and Technologies
3:00pm - 4:30pm	The Sphere: New Ecologies of Funding for the Performing Arts
3:00pm - 5:00pm (OFFSITE)	Introduction to Patchworking and Textile Re-Use at CUCCR
Friday, September 16
10:30am - 12:30pm	Meet the Artist and Exhibition Tour
12:00pm - 2:00pm (OFFSITE)	Scales of Waste: an Island, an Archipelago, and a River
1:00pm - 2:00pm	What It Means for This to Breathe
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Screen Printing 101 with French Press

How can you participate? Attend in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

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