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SUMMARY:Writing Wednesdays
DESCRIPTION:Every Wednesday\, join LePARC members and beyond for their weekly Writing Wednesdays: \n\n\n\n“A focused three hours every week: write with people in the same boat as you and with a structure that includes stretching/dancing breaks. Bring whatever it is you need to do\, be it writing your thesis\, a literature review\, a proposal or application\, emails\, etc.” \n\n\n\nThe sessions are from 9:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST every Wednesday up until and including April 20th\, and are strictly on Zoom for the moment\, with the sessions moving into a hybrid structure following securing of safe spaces that abide by COVID-19 regulations. \n\n\n\nBenefit from the energy\, structure and support of the group for the creation and fruition of any and all projects\, texts\, and beyond! Please email leparcmilieux@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/writing-wednesdays/
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SUMMARY:Financializing Infrastructures Winter Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:The new year is already flying by at a rapid pace! The Speculative Life Cluster has already begun an incredibly compelling online project\, the Financializing Infrastructures Winter Speaker Series. Read on to find out about the final three events\, following the first that happened on January 21st\, and click here for the full post on the Speculative Life website! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n2. Friday\, February 4\, 2:00 PM ESTWorkshop — Alia Nurmohamed\, Futureproofing: Real Options as a Conceptual Tool in the Financialization of Everyday LifeZoom Link \n\n\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted uncertainty in people’s lives and a desire to “futureproof”: anticipate\, plan\, and mitigate unexpected future shocks. Originating in financial derivatives modelling\, real options have gained traction over the last two decades as a decision-making tool that captures the flexibility embedded in projects across various industries such as real estate\, pharmaceutical R&D\, and natural resources. This workshop aims to start a conversation about mobilizing real options – options that are not traded on financial markets – as a conceptual tool to understanding how financialized thinking seeps into everyday life. \n\n\n\nAlia Nurmohamed is a PhD student in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University. Alia’s research focuses on how conflicting and intersecting responsibilities can lead to feelings of grief in motherhood. Prior to joining the Department of Sociology & Anthropology\, Alia worked for 10 years in real estate private equity and consulting. She holds a B.Com in Finance from McGill University\, an MBA from the University of Warwick\, and BA in Sociology from Concordia University. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n3. Friday\, February 18\, 1:00 PM ESTKathryn Furlong\, Trickle-down debt: Infrastructure\, development\, and financialisation\, Medellín 1960-2013Zoom Link \n\n\n\nIn many Latin American cities\, infrastructure was largely financed through development lending over the second half of the 20th century. Exacerbated by debt crises and currency devaluations\, public utilities became holders of significant levels of negative value. This encouraged public debt financialisation in order to mitigate the effects of shifting interest rates and devaluation. For David Harvey\, negative value is the hallmark of contemporary capitalism whereby one must produce\, not for profit\, but to retire debt. This paper examines these issues through a case study of urban infrastructure financing\, debt\, and tariffs in Medellín\, Colombia from 1960 to 2013. \n\n\n\nKathryn Furlong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the Université de Montréal and former Canada Research Chair in Water and Urbanization. She holds a doctorate in human geography (UBC). Her research focuses on the social and environmental consequences of political-economic restructuring for water management and governance\, particularly in the context of cities. Her research  brings together the disciplines of economic and urban geography and political ecology while addressing  issues related to the provision of municipal services\, socio-technical networks\, consumption and the links between practice and ethics. Her book Leaky Governance: Alternative service delivery and the myth of water utility independence (UBC\, 2016) addresses these issues in the Canadian Context. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n4. Friday\, March 18\, 1:00 PM ESTHannah Appel (UCLA)\, From Debtors Prisons to Debtors UnionsZoom Link \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to build collective power within and against finance capitalism? The Debt Collective is organizing a debtors’ union using an emancipatory activation of household debt: Alone\, our debts are a burden\, but together they make us powerful. Household debt leveraged collectively in the threat of a debt strike creates the power to remake contemporary financial relationships. This talk explores the work of the Debt Collective to build counterpower using student debt\, carceral debt\, medical debt\, housing debt and more\, as leverage to abolish unjust debts and build the reparative public goods we need.  \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to build collective power within and against finance capitalism? The Debt Collective is organizing a debtors’ union using an emancipatory activation of household debt: Alone\, our debts are a burden\, but together they make us powerful. Household debt leveraged collectively in the threat of a debt strike creates the power to remake contemporary financial relationships. This talk explores the work of the Debt Collective to build counterpower using student debt\, carceral debt\, medical debt\, housing debt and more\, as leverage to abolish unjust debts and build the reparative public goods we need. 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/financializing-infrastructures-winter-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:Neel Ahuja Talk: Animal Death as National Debility
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the latest talk in the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global\, Decolonial\, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World\, with Neel Ahuja\, presenting Animal Death as National Debility: Climate\, Agriculture\, and Syrian War Narrative. This talk is co-sponsored by Society\, Politics\, Animals and Materialities (SPAM)\, the Critical Anthropocene Research Group (CARG)\, and the Colonial\, Racial\, Indigenous Ecologies Working (CRIE) Working Group.Neel Ahuja is a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland with appointments in the American Studies Department and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies. At the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, he is Professor of Feminist Studies and a core faculty member of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program\, where he serves on the advisory board of the Center for Racial Justice. Neel’s research explores the relationship of the body to the geopolitical\, environmental\, and public health contexts of colonial governance\, warfare\, and security.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/neel-ahuja-talk-animal-death-as-national-debility/
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SUMMARY:MilieuxMake Workshop: Cooking and Culturing Colour
DESCRIPTION:MilieuxMake Workshop Series presentsCOOKING AND CULTURING COLOUR:Creating compostable dyes from food waste and bacteriaBy Vanessa Mardirossian\, with Alexandra BachmayerDATES: March 15\, 22\, 29\, & 31\, from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ESTLOCATION: HYBRID — Milieux Speculative Life BioLab AND online via Zoom \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn this four-part hybrid workshop\, we will develop dyes extracted from food waste and derived from bacteria. Through this creation process\, we will explore and discuss themes of sustainability\, minimal waste and re-use\, and the environmental impact of our explorations. We will introduce participants to basic lab protocols\, alternative ‘eco-friendly’ lab methodologies\, and adapted techniques for safe ‘at-home’ lab work as well.  Specifically\, participants will learn to dye textiles with food waste and with bacteria; and how to modulate colors and grow patterns\, through a variety of basic lab techniques including the preparation of a liquid culture\, the preparation of agar plates\, streaking plates\, and the safe use of the bactincinorator and autoclave. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. Registration is required! Please email your interest or any questions to Alexandra Bachmayer via the left-hand column button with ‘Colour Workshop’ in the subject line. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTHIS WILL BE A HYBRID WORKSHOP!Participants will be invited to break into 4 groups\, and 1 person from each group will be permitted onsite in the lab for each session\, while the rest participate via Zoom. In order to give everyone the chance for a hands-on experience the maximum participants for this workshop will be 12\, allowing for groups of no more than 3\, depending on registration numbers. Please note: the workshops will be filmed onsite and via Zoom for educational & documentation purposes. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nVanessa Mardirossian is a textile designer and worked in fashion for 20 years before starting her PhD. She was driven to return to school after learning about the ecological impact of her industry. Vanessa had already been working with food waste natural dyeing — including onion\, avocado\, tea\, and black bean — and after researching bacterial dyes with the Bactinctorium\, she became interested in how she could merge these different techniques. \n\n\n\nOver the course of this research\, she has created different bacterial liquid cultures from food waste and has tested various fibres in an attempt to expand the colour palette. This workshop is based on her PhD research\, The Culture of Color: An Ecoliteracy of Textile Design.  \n\n\n\nVanessa’s project and workshop are supported by the Sustainability Action Fund (SAF)\, who granted her an award to promote sustainability within the Concordia community. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Sustainability Action Fund is a student run fee levy group at Concordia University. Their mission is to build an inclusive culture of sustainability at Concordia University by enabling\, supporting\, and financing projects that tackle interconnected environmental\, social\, and economic issues.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieuxmake-workshop-cooking-and-culturing-colour/
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SUMMARY:Dr. Sophie Bishop discusses Influencer Culture
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sophie Bishop will discuss her research on influencer culture in the UK. Dr. Bishop researches how creative work and promotional cultures are increasingly shaped by social media platforms\, and the implications for labour\, representation and discrimination. \n\n\n\nShe is the Specialist Advisor for the UK Parliamentary Inquiry into influencer culture. On 21 March 2021\, The United Kingdom Parliament Digital\, Culture\, Media and Sport Committee has launched an inquiry examining “the power of influencers on social media\, how influencer culture operates\, and will consider the absence of regulation on the promotion of products or services\, aside from the existing policies of individual platforms.” The ‘Influencer culture’ inquiry is a major investigation into contemporary cultural policy in the UK and globally. Dr. Bishop will present her own research relevant to influencer culture in the UK\, but she will not speaking on behalf of parliament or the inquiry \n\n\n\nDr. Sophie Bishop is a Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at Sheffield University Management School . Her current projects include studying the experiences of creative workers\, who labour within rapidly changing digital industries (particularly alongside understandings of ‘algorithms’). In addition to beauty influencers\, she researches how platformisation affects other creative practioners like artists\, actors and tattoo artists. She also co-runs ‘Algorithmic Autobiographies and Fictions’ a project that encourages participants to use their ad data as a creative prompt for fiction writing and artistic interpretation.”  \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by the Machine Agencies working group of the Speculative Life cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/dr-sophie-bishop-discusses-influencer-culture/
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SUMMARY:'In the Middle\, a Chimera' Info Session
DESCRIPTION:In the Middle\, a Chimera is the end-of-year exhibition/symposium for the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology. Multi-headed as its title indicates\, the project will span two weeks\, from May 5th to the 18th\, 2022\, and will take place in numerous locations above and beyond the physical and conceptual limits of Concordia University. Though theoretically an exhibition\, its form will feel more like that of a biennale: a dynamism will imbue these two weeks\, bringing viewers to see affixed projects and ephemeral endeavours—performances\, workshops\, and talks—throughout the city. This will all take place either concurrently with a symposium\, where Milieux researchers will be invited to present papers that refer in some way or other to In the Middle’s theme. \n\n\n\nIn the Middle\, a Chimera considers the ways in which modern technology and systems are presented as serving a specific function that inevitably gives way to something entirely different (and in most instances\, nefarious). New\, breakthrough technology developed under the veil of capitalism inevitably bends to its whirling\, maelstrom pull: the goal of this exhibition/project is to envision and develop community-oriented futures where this pull is redirected towards person-to-person\, mutually beneficial relationships (instead of person-to-fiscal gain)\, as well as the ways in which we might undermine or re-conceptualize these technologies to not only nurture ourselves but our surrounding ecosystems and environments. \n\n\n\nAn integral element to the exhibition is the pragmatic application of community-building\, horizontally oriented project planning; we have selected the institutions and spaces to collaborate with based on their varied positionings (financial\, structural\, thematic\, etc.) with the idea that they could all mutually benefit from collaborating with each other. This\, too\, can be lent to the curatorial approach: emerging artists/student members will be selected and exhibited alongside more established artists (Milieux members and otherwise)\, bringing to the first advantageous visibility and the promise of future opportunities\, and to the latter new ideas from the forthcoming artist generation.  \n\n\n\nThis information session will be for those who are interested in submitting but have questions! It will\, as well\, function as a space for those interested in working on the organizational side to chime in or see in what areas they could work with us. Click the link below to join in on Thursday\, March 17th at 2:00 PM EST: \n\n\n\nMeeting Zoom Link
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/in-the-middle-a-chimera-info-session/
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SUMMARY:Why Do We Dream? A Micro-Opera
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nWhy do we dream?A micro-opera by RISE and CLOrk at LePARCSparked and driven by Valentina Plata \n\n\n\nExperience a lucid dream with us in a massively collaborative\, intersensory performance at Concordia’s EV building. Singers (human and not)\, masked dancers\, community musicians\, costumed actors\, chaos (f)actors\, laptopists\, sound sculpturers (physical and metaphysical)\, brain imagers\, painters\, object handers\, dream journal reciters\, deep dreamers\, live coders\, shape shifters\, and happy campers will enact a lucid dream in a collectively improvised performance. Join us as a dreamer\, a precipitator\, a participator\, a passer-by\, a bystander (or a bywanderer)\, a spectator or an unexpectator. Run with your “unsupervised imagination” into the dreams universe. \n\n\n\nThis happening is open and free for all\, made possible by support from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Procedural masks must be worn throughout. \n\n\n\nTime: This Thursday\, March 17th\, 8 PMLocation:  Performing Arts Research Cluster (Le PARC)Concordia University\, EV building\, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W.Room 10.760 (10th fl.) \n\n\n\nHow to find it: Once in the EV building\, take the eastern-wing elevators to the 10th floor. From the elevators corridor turn left (east) and you shall see and hear the entry point.  \n\n\n\nwhat three words location: ///explain.relate.flexed https://w3w.co/explain.relate.flexed \n\n\n\nSpecial note: expect an oonaghverse easter egg appearance by Jean Bark
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/why-do-we-dream-a-micro-opera/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:MilieuxMake Workshop: Cooking and Culturing Colour
DESCRIPTION:MilieuxMake Workshop Series presentsCOOKING AND CULTURING COLOUR:Creating compostable dyes from food waste and bacteriaBy Vanessa Mardirossian\, with Alexandra BachmayerDATES: March 15\, 22\, 29\, & 31\, from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ESTLOCATION: HYBRID — Milieux Speculative Life BioLab AND online via Zoom \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn this four-part hybrid workshop\, we will develop dyes extracted from food waste and derived from bacteria. Through this creation process\, we will explore and discuss themes of sustainability\, minimal waste and re-use\, and the environmental impact of our explorations. We will introduce participants to basic lab protocols\, alternative ‘eco-friendly’ lab methodologies\, and adapted techniques for safe ‘at-home’ lab work as well.  Specifically\, participants will learn to dye textiles with food waste and with bacteria; and how to modulate colors and grow patterns\, through a variety of basic lab techniques including the preparation of a liquid culture\, the preparation of agar plates\, streaking plates\, and the safe use of the bactincinorator and autoclave. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. Registration is required! Please email your interest or any questions to Alexandra Bachmayer via the left-hand column button with ‘Colour Workshop’ in the subject line. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTHIS WILL BE A HYBRID WORKSHOP!Participants will be invited to break into 4 groups\, and 1 person from each group will be permitted onsite in the lab for each session\, while the rest participate via Zoom. In order to give everyone the chance for a hands-on experience the maximum participants for this workshop will be 12\, allowing for groups of no more than 3\, depending on registration numbers. Please note: the workshops will be filmed onsite and via Zoom for educational & documentation purposes. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nVanessa Mardirossian is a textile designer and worked in fashion for 20 years before starting her PhD. She was driven to return to school after learning about the ecological impact of her industry. Vanessa had already been working with food waste natural dyeing — including onion\, avocado\, tea\, and black bean — and after researching bacterial dyes with the Bactinctorium\, she became interested in how she could merge these different techniques. \n\n\n\nOver the course of this research\, she has created different bacterial liquid cultures from food waste and has tested various fibres in an attempt to expand the colour palette. This workshop is based on her PhD research\, The Culture of Color: An Ecoliteracy of Textile Design.  \n\n\n\nVanessa’s project and workshop are supported by the Sustainability Action Fund (SAF)\, who granted her an award to promote sustainability within the Concordia community. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Sustainability Action Fund is a student run fee levy group at Concordia University. Their mission is to build an inclusive culture of sustainability at Concordia University by enabling\, supporting\, and financing projects that tackle interconnected environmental\, social\, and economic issues.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieuxmake-workshop-cooking-and-culturing-colour-2/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Call for 'In the Middle\, a Chimera' Exhibition & Symposium
DESCRIPTION:As many of you now know\, The Milieux Institute will be presenting In the Middle\, a Chimera—our end-of-year exhibition/symposium/workshop extravaganza—from May 5th to the 18th\, 2022! As the title indicates\, this widespread event is both multi-faceted and multi-locational—we will be working with several organizations and institutions to best present our members’ work to the public\, along with some very exciting participating artists! \n\n\n\nThe event is divided into two official segments: the exhibition (happening for the total duration)\, and the symposium (happening May the 9th and 10th\, and May 13th and 14th\, with possible date changes). Please find below the Google Forms for both calls: \n\n\n\nIN THE MIDDLE\, A CHIMERA | EXHIBITION CALLIN THE MIDDLE\, A CHIMERA | SYMPOSIUM CALL \n\n\n\nThe deadline is March 23rd\, 11:59 PM EST!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/call-for-in-the-middle-a-chimera-exhibition-symposium/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220325T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220325T170000
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SUMMARY:Michelle Murphy Talk: What is Chemical Violence?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the sixth in a series of talks planned collaboratively by SPAM\, CARG\, and CRIE: Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global\, Decolonial\, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World\, with Michelle Murphy presenting What is Chemical Violence? \n\n\n\nIs a chemical pollutant a molecule\, or something else? This talk considers the ways chemical pollution contributes to land and atmosphere disruption\, enacts colonialism and racism\, as well as distributes mortality to beings and their relationships. Thus\, it suggests that chemical pollution might better be understand as part of land/body relations.  Through Indigenous feminist approaches that activate responsibilities to Indigenous jurisdiction\, land\, and intergenerational being on the lower Great Lakes\, this talk reconsiders what makes up chemical violence. \n\n\n\nMichelle Murphy is a science and technology studies scholar whose research concerns feminist and decolonial approaches to environment\, reproduction and data. Their  current research focuses on the relationships between pollution\, colonialism\, and technoscience on the lower Great Lakes.  At the University of Toronto\, Murphy is Professor of History and Women & Gender Studies\, a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science & Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice\, as well as Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit\, which hosts an Indigenous led Environmental Data Justice lab. They are Métis from Winnipeg. \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by the Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/michelle-murphy-talk-what-is-chemical-violence/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Body Archeology Workshop: Ancestral Memory in the Context of (Im)migration
DESCRIPTION:Workshop and performance presentation by Tatiana KorolevaFrom March 26th to April 19th (bi-weekly meetings) \n\n\n\n>>>WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL<<< \n\n\n\nWednesdays and Saturdays\, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM ESTIN PERSON at the Sense Lab — Concordia University (EV Building\, EV.10.785)CAPACITY: 12 People \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, we will explore a variety of ways our genetic memory can be activated in the process of performance creation with the purpose of reviewing and connecting to the history of our ancestors. Focusing specifically on the experiences of migration\, immigration\, displacement and relocation as a part of global history\, the workshop proposes to activate the invisible link between our cultures of origin and our present moment. Opening the space for connecting to our roots while also acknowledging the hybridity of (im)migrant’s experiences and identities\, we will focus on creating individual and group projects to venerate our ancestral past and to give voices to the parts of our identities that often remain silenced in a new cultural context. Using the framework of ritual and a variety of performance art methodologies\, this workshop brings forward the concepts of empathetic presence\, collaboration\, dialogic witnessing\, and awareness of belonging to a larger community as fundamental principles of performance art creation. Our ultimate goal is to produce 15- to 30-minute long individual performances which will be presented in the spring of 2022. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is suitable for international students and faculty\, immigrants\, travellers\, and/or anyone interested in exploring ancestral memory and the multiplicity of ways it continuously affects our present. \n\n\n\nTo register\, please click the button on the left-hand column. Capacity is limited to 12 participants\, so don’t delay! \n\n\n\nTatiana Koroleva (born: Surgut\, Western Siberia) is a multi-disciplinary artist\, poet\, educator\, and researcher who works in the mediums of performance art\, video art and creative writing. A graduate of a Doctoral program in Humanities\, Concordia University (Montréal\, QC) and a lecturer at the Department of Studio Arts\, Concordia University\, Tatiana explores intersections of performance art\, art therapy and butoh practices. Her work is grounded in the subjects of ancestral and genetic memory\, migration\, intergenerational trauma and search for personal andcollective healing. Since 2006\, Koroleva has performed locally and internationally including her participation in Miami International Festival of Performance Art (FL\, USA)\, International Biennale of Performance Art DEFORMES (Santiago de Chile\, Chile)\, Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival (Sofia\, Bulgaria)\, Body Navigation International Dance Festival (Saint- Petersburg\, Russia) and Nuit Blanche Festival of Contemporary Art (Montréal\, Canada)\, among many others. Her most recent performances were presented at Queens Museum (NYC\, USA) and La Centrale Gallery Powerhouse (Montreal\, QC).
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/body-archeology-workshop-ancestral-memory-in-the-context-of-immigration/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:MilieuxMake Workshop: Cooking and Culturing Colour
DESCRIPTION:MilieuxMake Workshop Series presentsCOOKING AND CULTURING COLOUR:Creating compostable dyes from food waste and bacteriaBy Vanessa Mardirossian\, with Alexandra BachmayerDATES: March 15\, 22\, 29\, & 31\, from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ESTLOCATION: HYBRID — Milieux Speculative Life BioLab AND online via Zoom \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn this four-part hybrid workshop\, we will develop dyes extracted from food waste and derived from bacteria. Through this creation process\, we will explore and discuss themes of sustainability\, minimal waste and re-use\, and the environmental impact of our explorations. We will introduce participants to basic lab protocols\, alternative ‘eco-friendly’ lab methodologies\, and adapted techniques for safe ‘at-home’ lab work as well.  Specifically\, participants will learn to dye textiles with food waste and with bacteria; and how to modulate colors and grow patterns\, through a variety of basic lab techniques including the preparation of a liquid culture\, the preparation of agar plates\, streaking plates\, and the safe use of the bactincinorator and autoclave. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. Registration is required! Please email your interest or any questions to Alexandra Bachmayer via the left-hand column button with ‘Colour Workshop’ in the subject line. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTHIS WILL BE A HYBRID WORKSHOP!Participants will be invited to break into 4 groups\, and 1 person from each group will be permitted onsite in the lab for each session\, while the rest participate via Zoom. In order to give everyone the chance for a hands-on experience the maximum participants for this workshop will be 12\, allowing for groups of no more than 3\, depending on registration numbers. Please note: the workshops will be filmed onsite and via Zoom for educational & documentation purposes. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nVanessa Mardirossian is a textile designer and worked in fashion for 20 years before starting her PhD. She was driven to return to school after learning about the ecological impact of her industry. Vanessa had already been working with food waste natural dyeing — including onion\, avocado\, tea\, and black bean — and after researching bacterial dyes with the Bactinctorium\, she became interested in how she could merge these different techniques. \n\n\n\nOver the course of this research\, she has created different bacterial liquid cultures from food waste and has tested various fibres in an attempt to expand the colour palette. This workshop is based on her PhD research\, The Culture of Color: An Ecoliteracy of Textile Design.  \n\n\n\nVanessa’s project and workshop are supported by the Sustainability Action Fund (SAF)\, who granted her an award to promote sustainability within the Concordia community. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Sustainability Action Fund is a student run fee levy group at Concordia University. Their mission is to build an inclusive culture of sustainability at Concordia University by enabling\, supporting\, and financing projects that tackle interconnected environmental\, social\, and economic issues.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieuxmake-workshop-cooking-and-culturing-colour-3/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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UID:3322-1648684800-1648684800@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:MilieuxMake Workshop: Cooking and Culturing Colour
DESCRIPTION:MilieuxMake Workshop Series presentsCOOKING AND CULTURING COLOUR:Creating compostable dyes from food waste and bacteriaBy Vanessa Mardirossian\, with Alexandra BachmayerDATES: March 15\, 22\, 29\, & 31\, from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ESTLOCATION: HYBRID — Milieux Speculative Life BioLab AND online via Zoom \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn this four-part hybrid workshop\, we will develop dyes extracted from food waste and derived from bacteria. Through this creation process\, we will explore and discuss themes of sustainability\, minimal waste and re-use\, and the environmental impact of our explorations. We will introduce participants to basic lab protocols\, alternative ‘eco-friendly’ lab methodologies\, and adapted techniques for safe ‘at-home’ lab work as well.  Specifically\, participants will learn to dye textiles with food waste and with bacteria; and how to modulate colors and grow patterns\, through a variety of basic lab techniques including the preparation of a liquid culture\, the preparation of agar plates\, streaking plates\, and the safe use of the bactincinorator and autoclave. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. Registration is required! Please email your interest or any questions to Alexandra Bachmayer via the left-hand column button with ‘Colour Workshop’ in the subject line. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTHIS WILL BE A HYBRID WORKSHOP!Participants will be invited to break into 4 groups\, and 1 person from each group will be permitted onsite in the lab for each session\, while the rest participate via Zoom. In order to give everyone the chance for a hands-on experience the maximum participants for this workshop will be 12\, allowing for groups of no more than 3\, depending on registration numbers. Please note: the workshops will be filmed onsite and via Zoom for educational & documentation purposes. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nVanessa Mardirossian is a textile designer and worked in fashion for 20 years before starting her PhD. She was driven to return to school after learning about the ecological impact of her industry. Vanessa had already been working with food waste natural dyeing — including onion\, avocado\, tea\, and black bean — and after researching bacterial dyes with the Bactinctorium\, she became interested in how she could merge these different techniques. \n\n\n\nOver the course of this research\, she has created different bacterial liquid cultures from food waste and has tested various fibres in an attempt to expand the colour palette. This workshop is based on her PhD research\, The Culture of Color: An Ecoliteracy of Textile Design.  \n\n\n\nVanessa’s project and workshop are supported by the Sustainability Action Fund (SAF)\, who granted her an award to promote sustainability within the Concordia community. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Sustainability Action Fund is a student run fee levy group at Concordia University. Their mission is to build an inclusive culture of sustainability at Concordia University by enabling\, supporting\, and financing projects that tackle interconnected environmental\, social\, and economic issues.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieuxmake-workshop-cooking-and-culturing-colour-4/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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