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SUMMARY:Environmental Materials and/as Methods: Student Workshop
DESCRIPTION:How to mediate the banal?\nInspired by Heather Davis’s forthcoming piece\, Banal Violence: Breathing Plastic Air\, this two-day workshop invites participants to investigate materiality as both object and method of study. Together\, we will critically engage with the question of material banality through hands-on investigation and collective creation. \nInspired by Rob Nixon’s seminal concept of slow violence\, Davis switches ‘slow’ for ‘banal’\, to focus the attention not only on the temporality of environmental violence\, as incremental and accretive\, but also on its affective and bodily registers. Toxicity scholars have shown that slow violence is both a direct experience and something needing mediation to be understood. We argue that this hard-to-perceive slow violence is even more difficult to communicate when it is also banal. \nAs part of our commitment to exploring creative strategies for mediating banality\, we invite students\, scholars\, and practitioners to investigate everyday material encounters across Montreal in a workshop. \nParticipants will collaboratively act as gatherers\, employing biomaterial capture methods to identify cues of banal violence across the city. Back at Spec Life\, groups will interpret their collected data using a range of methodologies familiar to different groups in the cluster\, including multimodal ethnography\, CLEAR Lab’s DIY microplastic forensics protocol\, and microscopy/material analysis. Following this\, participants will synthesize their insights through a series of speculative map-making exercises\, attempting to situate their discoveries in relation to time and space. The workshop will culminate in the co-production of speculative analog and digital maps\, making visible some of the manifold forms of banal violence present in the city of Montreal. \n  \n🎟️ Space is limited and requires registration: \n \n  \n  Start-up: May 7 11 AM – 12 PM \n  Workshop: May 8 9 AM – 4 PM \nSpeculative Life EV 10.625
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/environmental-materials-and-as-methods-2/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
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SUMMARY:Environmental Materials and/as Methods: Closing Remarks
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis 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. \nThe 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). \nTheir 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. \nPlease join us to learn more about their research outcomes and to conclude this series together. \n  \n                   
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/environmental-materials-and-as-methods-closing-remarks/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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