This year’s festival, titled “MENDING,” will examine how art and art-making can be a catalyst to repairing relationships with the self, with others and with the world around us. MENDING encourages attendees to explore ways in which repairing those relationships can foster a more sustainable and just approach to tackling the environmental crises, systemic challenges
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Principal Investigator: Tarmo Remmel. Funding: NSERC Discovery Grant. Term: 2021-2026. The project is developing an explicit logic and corresponding software to extend morphological segmentation to depict a true 3D characterization of landscapes. Methods will be subject to sensitivity analysis and will be used to compare the effects and recovery of landscape processes such as fire,
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Principal Investigator: Jinthana Haritaworn Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2021-2026. The project examines the contributions that multiple marginalized communities are making to help their societies survive and recover from the pandemic. It proposes that those who have experienced and, often, led intersecting movements for justice are in an ideal position to innovate critiques and responses
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Principal Investigator: Deborah McGregor/Co-Investigators: Lisa Myers and Alan Corbiere Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2021-2025. The project aims to define what it means to "live well" from a self-determined Indigenous perspective. Building on previous SSHRC-funded research, the project team will focus specifically on the Anishinaabek concept of mino-mnaamodzawin (well-being with all life) as aframework for
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by Shira Taylor In 2014, as a fresh-faced doctoral candidate, I walked into one of Toronto’s most diverse and overpopulated high schools with the idea of making sex education more accessible by inviting young people to sing, rap, and dance about everything from chlamydia to menstruation to homophobia. On my first visit to Marc Garneau
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As part of the open programming at Congress 2023, the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) is hosting a keynote panel titled "Indigenous Knowing and Climate Futures" on May 31st from 3-5pm at the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building. Co-sponsored by UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice, and the Environmental Studies Association of
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Project Investigators: Luisa Sotomayor and Lina Brand Correa Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant Term: 2022-2025 This interdisciplinary research project (Canada, Colombia, urban planning, anthropology, development studies, and ecological economics) will investigate the implementation and effects of Colombia's market-based housing policy as it restructures the country's metropolitan peripheries. Specifically, the project aims to understand how commodified social
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Project Investigator: Ute Lehrer Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant Term: 2022-2025 High-rise buildings have long been a significant form in urban development. But this form of living comes with its own challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic of the last two years has magnified some of the problems for life in close proximity. While a large body
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Project Investigators: Roger Keil (York), Xuefei Ren (MSU) and Philip Harrison (WITS) Funding: Urban Studies Foundation Term: 2022-2023 This is a pilot study of a larger comparative project on the complex effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban governance intended to initiate a systematic comparison of vulnerability and governance in post-pandemic city regions. At the
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Project Investigator: Andil Gosine Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant Term: 2022-2023. The project shares the author's research collected in Nature’ Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean (Duke University Press, 2021). In Nature's Wild, Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise historical and contemporary understandings of queer desire.
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