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SUMMARY:[WORKSHOP] Bio-Inspired Folding Techniques
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Bio-inspired Folding Techniques\, the first workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n  \n \n \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \nHosted by Lucie Leroux (Laboratoire Textile\, Montreal)\, in collaboration with Alice Jarry and Miranda Smitheram\, this four-hour workshop introduces bio-inspired folding as a research-creation methodology at the intersection of design\, engineering\, and living systems. Moving beyond the representation of natural phenomena\, participants will explore folding as a performative\, speculative\, and relational process that translates principles of growth\, locomotion\, deployability\, adaptation\, and responsiveness into material form. Through hands-on experimentation and an introduction to accessible techniques\, participants will prototype paper and fabric structures\, foregrounding folding as a medium for developing soft and adaptive applications. \n  \nPhoto Credits: Lucie Leroux\n  \nABOUT LUCIE LEROUX: \nTrained in design and architecture in France\, Lucie Leroux began her career in architectural lighting before moving to Montreal\, where she discovered textile printing. It was while working on large-scale projects such as the Shanghai World Expo that she began to take an interest in light and patterns. After working on costumes for Cirque du Soleil\, she collaborated on several projects ranging from fashion to documentary\, presented throughout Quebec at venues such as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City. In 2012\, she launched Laboratoire Textile\, a creative space where she explores textile design through various research and creative projects. She has also been a lecturer at the Atelier Textile since 2014 and at the Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montréal since 2024. \n\n  \n\n  \n  \nThis workshop is part of the NFRF project Origami-inspired Deployable Sensoriactuator Soft Robots\, co-directed by Hamid Akbarzadeh\, Alice Jarry\, Miranda Smitheram\, Marta Cerruti\, and David Meger. The event is supported by Hexagram: Research-creation network in arts\, culture\, and technology. \n  \n April 9\, 2026 \n 1 – 5 PM \n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.455 \n Spaces are limited. Make sure you book your spot. \n💡Questions: alice.jarry@concordia.ca \n  \n  \n                           
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-bio-inspired-folding-techniques/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:[Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series] Designing for the North: Sustainable\, Human-Centered Spaces Through Light\, Air Quality\, Thermal Comfort and Climate-Responsive Strategies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Dr. Carolina Espinoza Sanhueza. Titled Designing for the North: Sustainable\, Human-Centered Spaces Through Light\, Air Quality\, Thermal Comfort and Climate-Responsive Strategies\, this lecture will present insights from research projects focused on improving indoor environmental quality in Northern localities. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nDr. Carolina Espinoza Sanhueza is an architect\, researcher\, and educator dedicated to creating sustainable\, carbon-neutral environments that place human well-being at their core. Her work integrates architectural design with environmental performance\, using building parameters\, light quality\, indoor air quality\, and thermal comfort\, as levers for enhancing occupant health and spatial experience\, specifically in Northern climates. Her research advances simulation-based methods\, immersive visualization\, and post-occupancy evaluation to support evidence-based design decision-making. \nShe holds a PhD in Architecture from Université Laval (Québec\, Canada) and pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the same institution\, where she examined the effects of light and colour on visual performance and circadian stimulation in Northern and Arctic communities\, employing image-based simulation and immersive capture techniques. \nDr. Espinoza Sanhueza is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Toronto Metropolitan University\, where she investigates the challenges of sustainable and resilient housing in Northern Canada and develops post-occupancy evaluation methods grounded in time-series data analysis. Threading design\, research\, pedagogy\, and professional practice together\, her work advances a vision of the built environment that is as responsive to its inhabitants as it is to the climate and context it serves. \n  \n  April 13\, 2026 \n 2:15-3:45 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705 \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/design-computation-arts-speaker-series-designing-for-the-north-sustainable-human-centered-spaces-through-light-air-quality-thermal-comfort-and-climate-responsive-strategies/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260415
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SUMMARY:JenniCam@30: Thirty years of live streaming cultures
DESCRIPTION:April 14th\, 2026\, will mark 30 years since Jennifer Ringley\, then a college student\, mounted a digital camera on top of her computer in her dorm room and began streaming online. Ringley’s webcam\, known as JenniCam\, transmitted nearly uninterrupted for seven years\, becoming the most enduring webcam performance of the early Internet. Despite not being recognized as a pioneer during her time\, Jennifer Ringley made Internet history by pioneering live self-streaming. \nThirty years later\, we will commemorate JenniCam’s anniversary with a day-long event about and through live streaming practices. \n  \nProgram:\nJenniCam in Context\n⏱️ 10:30 AM (doors open at 10:15 AM) \n📍 4TH SPACE \nKeynote lecture by Susanna Paasonen (online)\, plus an in-situ conversation. \n  \nPresentations and in-situ conversations at Speculative Life Cluster\n⏱️ 1 PM \n📍 Speculative Life Cluster (EV 10.625) \nA pop-up live TV studio transmission hosted in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures. \nPresentations and in-situ conversations include: Tommaso Campagna on live streaming as a form of publishing (TheVoid.TV); Geert Lovink on the lives of the online self (online); Seska Lee on camming and the construction of liveness; Lotte de Jong on webcam and art (online). There will also be interventions on moderation and monetization strategies\, as well as live and not-so-live performances of live coding\, object theatre\, and music. \n  \nSnacks and beverages will be provided at both locations.  \n  \n🌐 Further details and online transmissions at: Jennicam-at-30.com
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/jennicam30-thirty-years-of-live-streaming-cultures/
LOCATION:Speculative Life Research Cluster  EV 10.625
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:[Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series] Sustainable Design: Collaborative Practices of Heat\, Energy and Environment-Making
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Dr. Iva Rešetar. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nIva Rešetar is an architect and interdisciplinary researcher at the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She studied architecture at the University of Belgrade and the Städelschule in Frankfurt and received her doctorate from the Berlin University of the Arts’ Department of Digital and Experimental Design. Her dissertation critically examines the relationship between architecture and environmental technologies\, searching out historical and experimental knowledge of thermodynamic processes of phase change in architecture – how they are sensed\, mediated and acted upon in context of the current climate crisis. Her interests lie in fluid materialities\, methods and practices of energy and heat\, and their implications for environmental regeneration and repair of the built environment. \nIva has practiced as an architect\, and has taught and carried out research among others at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart\, Weissensee School of Art and Design Berlin\, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam\, and CCA in Montreal. Her recent publications include Breath: Morphological\, Ecological and Social Dimensions (De Gruyter\, 2022)\, and Thermodynamic Structures: Modulating Heat with Phase Change Materials in Architecture (Berlin University of the Arts\, 2025). \n  \n  \n  April 15\, 2026 \n 2:45-4:15 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/design-computation-arts-speaker-series-sustainable-design-collaborative-practices-of-heat-energy-and-environment-making/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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SUMMARY:[WORKSHOP] The Virtual Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Virtual Gallery\, the second workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n \n  \nABOUT THE VIRTUAL GALLERY WORKSHOP: \nThis first workshop invites participants to reimagine and transform their images into extrapolated 3-D renderings using local AI\, then install them in a shared virtual gallery built in Blender & Unity. \nThis is a highly introductory workshop designed to explore possibilities and create a fun collaborative shared virtual gallery space\, and to spark discussions regarding authorship\, and is open to all Milieux Cluster members! \n  \n  \nFrom 2D to 3D using AI \n📍 MilieuxMake Space EV 10.825 \n⏱️ 11:30-1:30 PM \nThe first part of the workshop will be facilitated by PhD student François Lespinasse of Machine Agencies\, who will guide participants through the process of rendering 2-D images into 3-D renderings using the local AI computer at Machine Agencies\, and briefly introduce other methods of generating 3D content with AI sources.  \nBe sure to bring your own images of little things to transform into 3-D! \n  \n  \nFrom 3D to Virtual Reality\n📍 Immersive Storytelling Studio EV 1.631 \n⏱️ 1:30 – 3:30 PM \nThe second part of the workshop will be led by Part-time Faculty Marco Luna Barahona\, VR technologist at the Immersive Storytelling Studio\, who will walk participants through the basic processes of creating a virtual space (the gallery)\, formatting the 3-D elements and populating the gallery\, discussing different options for expressing a specific narrative and creating a truly immersive experience. \n  \n👉 Participants are invited to bring their own work in the form of short videos\, existing 3-D renderings & images whose 3-D renderings they are happy to include in a shared VR gallery space.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/the-virtual-gallery/
LOCATION:MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:[Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series] Climate-Responsive Architecture: Geometries\, Materials & Design Futures
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third presentation of the Design & Computation Arts Speaker Series featuring Zherui Wang. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nZherui (pron. zee-ray) Wang is a designer and building technology researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. His work focuses on devising architectural methods for cooling and climate-response design for extreme heat while being mindful of material use. Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program\, his PhD research explores the design integration of structural form-finding and building thermal mass performance\, informed by architectural geometry\, materials science\, and life cycle thinking. He is a co-author of Hydroculus\, an evaporative and radiative cooling roof prototype that was exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale and received a Holcim Foundation Award for Sustainable Design and Construction. Previously\, Wang was an Academic Professional Researcher at CHAOS Lab in Princeton. He has practiced in design roles at Barkow Leibinger Architects and served on the design faculty at the University of Pennsylvania\, Pratt Institute\, and State University of New York at Buffalo\, where he was named the 2020-21 Reyner Banham Fellow. Wang holds a BArch from Pratt Institute\, a post-professional MArch from Princeton University\, and a graduate certificate in Energy Policy from the Penn Kleinman Center. \n  \n  \n  April 17\, 2026 \n 2:15-3:45 PM \nResource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/design-computation-arts-speaker-series-climate-responsive-architecture-geometries-materials-design-futures/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T133000
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SUMMARY:[Book talk] The AI Matrix: A critical political economy reading of the profit\, power\, and politics behind global AI transformation(s)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Algorithmic Technology and Society CISSC working group for a discussion with Regine Paul on her new book\, The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics. \n  \nABOUT THE TALK: \n \nAI is often presented in extremes\, either as a revolutionary technology boosting prosperity for everyone\, or as a juggernaut that threatens jobs\, democracy\, or even human life. This talk cuts through those narratives by asking a simpler question: who really benefits from AI\, and who has the power to shape how it is made and used? \nDrawing on her co-authored book\, The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics (open access\, with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan)\, Regine Paul argues that today’s AI boom is not simply about clever machines taking over and our economies and societies needing to adapt\, but about profit imperatives and political choices. \nAI technologies are developed and deployed within pre-existing economic structures\, largely reinforcing inequalities between industries\, workers\, and countries rather than fundamentally transforming them away. \nThe main focus of this talk is on how long-standing insights from critical and global political economy can help us expose the complex interactions (1) of political institutions and agency\, (2) speculative tech narratives\, (3) the imperative of geopolitical tech races\, and (4) globe-spanning forms of domination and exploitation in shaping articulations of AI transformations\, in the plural\, on the ground as well as what connects these into one more global transformation\, in the singular\, across time and space. \n  \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nRegine Paul is Professor at the Department of Government at Bergen University (Norway\, on partial leave) and Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne where she is currently building up a new group on “Technology and Statehood”. She is co-editor of Critical Policy Studies and the Elgar Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence (2024)\, as well as co-author of The AI Matrix: Profits\, Power\, Politics (2026)\, with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n April 23\, 2026 \n 12–1:30 PM \n Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ If you’re planning to attend online\, please register here to receive the registration link. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-the-ai-matrix-a-critical-political-economy-reading-of-the-profit-power-and-politics-behind-global-ai-transformations/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T160000
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SUMMARY:[WORKSHOP] The Ghostly Image
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Ghostly Image\, the third workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!\nFrom creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries\, exploring creative structures through origami\, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics\, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab\, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices. \n  \n \n  \n Spaces are limited. Please RSVP to Marc Beaulieu marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca and include within the subject line “Ghostly Image”. \n  \nABOUT THE WORKSHOP: \n\nThis workshop will allow participants to re-imagine and transform photographs\, digital images and other works through Polaroid emulsion lifts. Exploring the materiality of film and photographic practice\, participants will work directly with the image of their choosing\, lifting\, folding\, stretching and tearing it. The process of emulsion lifting briefly reduces the image to a ghostly film to then be bonded to another material such as paper\, cardboard\, or fabric. This physical manipulation of imagery provides a framework to discuss transparencies/opacities of identity and selfhood\, thinking through ideas of disclosure and (mis)recognition. \n\nParticipants are invited to bring pre-existing digital images that can be printed on Polaroid film\, or to take photos on site to experiment with the process.\n  \n                                                   \n  \nABOUT CASPER SUTTON-FOSMAN:\n  \n\nCasper Sutton-Fosman is a curator\, artist and academic based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang\, also known as Montreal. Their work engages with queer and disabled relationships to lens-based art and image capture technology\, moving through complex temporalities and webs of connection. They hold an MFA from OCAD University and are a PhD student in the Humanities program at Concordia University.\n\n  \n  \n\n April 23\, 2026 \n 1 – 4 PM \n MilieuxMake Space EV 10.825
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/workshop-the-ghostly-image/
LOCATION:MilieuxMake Space (EV-10.825)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:LUDODROME
DESCRIPTION:Save the date and join us for the second edition of LUDODROME! \nLast year the event brought together more than 44 local experimental game makers and more than 450 visitors for a day of socializing\, networking and fun! \n  June 11\, 2026 \nParquette \n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/ludodrome/
LOCATION:Parquette – 1345 Rue de Bellechasse\, Montréal\, QC H2G 1N8
CATEGORIES:Demo
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