Environmental Materials and/as Methods: Closing Remarks

Together with the Speculative Life Research Cluster, the Hexagram Chantier Ecotechnologies warmly invites you to join us for the closing remarks of the knowledge mobilization series Environmental Materials and/as Methods.

This series has brought together diverse research platforms—the Concordia University Ethnography Lab, Machine Agencies, the Critical Anthropocene Research Group, and the Speculative Life Biolab—to explore shared questions around material practices, environmental inquiry, and interdisciplinary collaboration. As the series comes to a close, we invite you to take part in a moment of reflection, exchange, and celebration of the vibrant research cultures that make up our community.

The closing remarks will also highlight the work of the Chantier Ecotechnologies, a group of seven interdisciplinary artists, writers, and researchers currently engaged in a collaboration with the Chaire de recherche municipale pour les villes durables of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) and SYMBIOSE — Laboratoire intersectoriel en art, technologie et environnement (UQTR).

Their research focuses on ecotechnological approaches that mobilize academic, industrial, and municipal communities around pressing environmental challenges facing the Beaudet Reservoir in Victoriaville, including sediment accumulation and valorization, and the long-term impacts on access to drinking water.

Please join us to learn more about their research outcomes and to conclude this series together.