The Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG) is hosting a reading group event this Friday, November 5th in partnership with CRIE (Colonialism, Race and Indigenous Ecologies) and SPAM (Society, Politics, Animals and Materiality) to read Radhika Govindrajan's chapter "The Goat who Died for Family Sacrificial Ethics and Kinship" from her book Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central […]
Learn more about this event on the Textiles & Materiality website Hosts: Miranda Smitheram, Camelia Layachi, Etta Sandry When: Wednesdays from 6pm-7:30pm, Sept 23, Oct 7 & 21, Nov 4 & 18, Dec 2 Where: Zoom (e-mail the Research Coordinator at textiles.materiality@concordia.ca for the recurring link). Access the full bibliography here.
The Immersive Realities VR group invites all Milieux members to join a public meeting, their final of the term, where they will present their in-progress work, Liquid Perceptions, for a round of feedback and discussion. Liquid Perceptions is an interactive VR experience about the interconnections between the goals we set and the balance of […]
The Hungarian artist/photographer/researcher/writer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy ranks as one of the key visionaries of the 20th century. A central figure with the Bauhaus in Germany and then founder of the New Bauhaus in Chicago during the Second World War, Moholy-Nagy was a strong supporter of art and technology as factors of social progress. He deeply explored and experimented with the fundamental elements […]
Project wrap-up, discussion and screening Seven intrepid Milieux faculty and students set out to modernize aMinecraft village in just 30 days. Along the way they discover theprinciples of Bauhaus architecture and the international style,discuss the relationship between logistics, rationalism and modernism, build a new conception of functionalist aesthetics, and develop a deep fear of the “creepers” […]
All Milieux members are invited for lunch and a chat on TUESDAY, OCT 22 from 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. We will discuss the upcoming milieuXbauhaus festival, congratulate the new Milieux Undergraduate Fellows, and we will also be showing off the proofs of the latest Milieux Annual Report. Please RSVP on Facebook if possible, so […]
Join the Toronto based collective Public Recordings for a facilitated reading and reflection on Jo Freeman’s influential essay “The Tyranny of Structurelessness”. Originally published in 1970, Freeman’s text reflects on her experiences in the 1960’s Women's Liberation movement, as it sought to move from criticizing society to changing it. The essay examines the structural challenges […]