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SUMMARY:Mycosculpture: An introduction to growing Biomaterials
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an introductory workshop exploring the use of mycelium in bioart & design\, facilitated by Amélie Brindamour and Alex Bachmayer. \nMycelium\, the fibrous\, vegetative part of mushrooms\, has been used in recent years to build furniture\, art pieces\, and even small buildings. Come to the Speculative Life Biolab to learn more about mycelium\, how to grow it on burlap in petri dishes\, and get to know techniques to use lab tools in order to avoid contamination. Using a blend of organic matter and mycelium\, participants are invited to design & grow their own mycosculpture! \n  \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here. \n \n  \nABOUT AMÉLIE BRINDAMOUR: \nAmélie Brindamour explores different issues related to the natural environment. Her research includes sculpture\, installation\, biomaterials and electronic arts\, in order to reflect on interspecies relationships\, alternative forms of communication and intelligent systems in nature. Her projects blur the boundaries between art and science and is developed mainly by participating in diverse artist residencies\, such as Est-Nord-Est (2023)\, the Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup (Sociochimie program\, 2022)\, the Speculative Life BioLab at Concordia University (residency CQAM/Milieux\, 2019) and the Vermont Studio Centre (2018). Her work has been presented in various events and institutions such as Caravansérail (2025)\, Science Gallery Melbourne (2024)\, Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent (2024)\, Mois Multi (2023)\, and the McCarthy Art Gallery (Vermont\, 2019). Amélie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts and a Master in Art Education from Concordia University. Originally from Quebec City\, she lives and works in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal. \n  \n  \n🗓 November  11\, 2025\n🕒 1-5 PM\n📍Milieux BioLab EV 10.835 \n🎟️ To book your spot\, email biolab.milieux@concordia.ca with the subject ‘MYCOART‘ to reserve a spot. \nThis workshop is open to members of all Milieux research clusters and groups. \n  \n  \n\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Ana Isabel Duque\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Alex Bachmayer\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Credits: Alex Bachmayer
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/mycosculpture-an-introduction-to-growing-biomaterials/
LOCATION:Milieux ‘Speculative Life’ BioLab (EV 10.835)
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SUMMARY:Research Institute Day: Open House at Milieux
DESCRIPTION:On November 12th\, four of Concordia University’s Research Institutes are opening their doors to offer a glimpse into the world of interdisciplinary graduate research. \nJoin us at Milieux for an afternoon of tours\, demos\, workshops\, and research spotlights. This is a great opportunity to connect with our research community\, and learn how collaborative\, non-linear research fuels discovery across the university. \nIf you’re already a member but are curious about the different research clusters\, this is your chance to meet with your peers in an informal setting. Come by and say hi! \nFor the occasion\, Milieux has planned a list of activities designed to showcase the institute’s vibrant research culture . \nAll activities are drop-in!. \n  \nSchedule:\n  \n\n\n1-2 PM: How Research Institute Take Shape (and Shape You) | Panel Discussion at 4TH SPACE\n\n\nLearn how Concordia’s research institutes function\, how they began\, the projects they’re tackling today\, and what’s next. Panelists will share how interdisciplinary collaboration fuels discovery and shapes the graduate research experience. \n  \n\n\n1-4 PM: What the Heck Are You Working On? | Media & Materiality Cluster\, EV 10.775 \n\n\nMedia and materiality members will present their research in a welcoming environment. Each show-and-tell will be 5 minutes in length\, followed by a brief Q&A. \n  \n\n\n2:15-4:30 PM: Project Spotlight and Community Stitch: The Future is Wool | Textiles & Materiality Commons\, EV 10.735\n\n\nThe Textiles and Materiality Cluster will be hosting a community stitch event as part of the “La Laine : matériau d’avenir | The Future is Wool” project\, exploring cross-cultural histories and planet-healing futures of our favourite fibre\, local/regional/Canadian wool! Led by Dr. Kathleen Vaughan\, ” The Future is Wool” is a multi-pronged research\, research-creation\, and public outreach initiative that explores entwined considerations of personal well-being and sustainable planetary futures\, and the role that wool can play in promoting both.  \nTogether\, we’ll create a multi-panel “Bayeux”-style tapestry about our wool. All materials provided\, no previous experience required\, and your ideas and stories invited as part of this Concordia University research and creation adventure. \n  \n\n\n2:30-4 PM: Mini MUTEK Forum | Resource Room\, EV11.705\n\n\nThe Machine Agencies Research Group will present works from their exhibition “Machinic Encounters” presented at the MUTEK Forum earlier this year. \n  \n\n\n2:30 PM & 3:30 PM: Milieux Guided Tour | Meeting Point Atrium on the 11th floor.\n\n\nJoin one of our 45-minute Guided Tour and learn more about the institute and the research clusters\, discover the different labs and studios and get a glimpse into the institute’s research culture by meeting faculty\, students and staff onsite. \n  \n\n\n2:30 PM: “Mess and Methods: Outcomes of rapidly-deployable composite ethnography” | Speculative Life Cluster \, EV 10.625\n\n\n The Concordia Ethnography Lab will discuss the outcome of the Summer Institute “Mess and Methods”. Led by Dr. Kregg Hetherington\, this year’s Summer Institute focused on the ethnographic exploration of  Montreal’s waterways over the course of two weeks. The Montreal waterways research group led an hand-on session over multiple sites around the St Lawrence River to introduce participants to Composite Ethnography. At the end of these two weeks\,  the group showcase the results of their explorations in a closing exhibition open to the public. \n  \n\n\n3 PM : “How do you play with nostalgia?”  | TAG Lab \, EV 11.435\n\n\nIn this research spotlight\, PhD Candidate and Concordia Public Scholar\, Richy Srirachanikorn will talk about his research around nostalgia. Richy’s research looks at how people use technologies to recompose the past not for the way it was\, but the way it could have been. Richy is also a founding member of the Nostagain Network\, the first student-led research collective in North America exploring the generative uses of nostalgia. \n\n  \n\n\n3:15 PM :  “What a Year at TAG Looks Like” | TAG Lab \, EV 11.435\n\n\nMarc Lajeunesse will introduce TAG and look back at highlights and key events from the past year. \n\n  \n\n\n4-4:30 PM :  “Introduction to LePARC” | LePARC Performance Lab\, EV 10.785\n\n\nCluster Co-Director Lília Mestre introduces the LePARC performance lab and invites attendees to a surprise concert. \n\n  \n\n\n4:30-5 PM: Closing Talk | “Turning Data into Action for a Sustainable Future” | Milieux Atrium EV. 11\n\n\nPhD student Faisal Shennib will present his research and invite the audience to rethinking how cities handle waste and move toward a circular economy. His work looks at how everyday data and smart technologies can help people and communities make better\, greener choices\, from waste-sorting tools to smarter recycling systems. In this closing talk\, Faisal will share his story of discovery at Concordia — how curiosity about sustainability\, technology\, and design evolved into research that aims to make cities cleaner\, smarter\, and more sustainable for everyone. \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/research-institute-day-open-house-at-milieux/
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SUMMARY:Tactile Sound: Sensing the Audible
DESCRIPTION:This workshop aims to explore the senses by transforming the experience of sound from the auditory to the tactile and visual. How can we re-imagine the experience of sound via textiles and other material substrates? \nTogether with multi-disciplinary artists Ryth Kesselring and Geneviève Moisan\, participants will look at different computational and electronic platforms for integrating sound creation capabilities into textile and learn different methods of creating soft speakers\, affording opportunities for sound to be worn\, felt & viewed in different ways. \n  \nABOUT RYTH KESSELRING: \nBorn in Switzerland\, Ryth Kesselring moved to Québec during her childhood. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on sound\, textiles and the rhythms of craftsmanship as imprints of the textile memories. In her recent work she uses weaving\, sound\, electronics and plants to create interactive ecosystems that are reflecting on political and ecological issues. She is a MFA candidate in Studio Arts with a specialisation in Fibres and Material Practices at Concordia University. She worked as research assistant for different research-creation projects as for studio subTela where she worked on electronics and embroideries for interactive textiles. Ryth Kesselring’s work has been shown nationally and internationally through residencies and exhibitions. She is a recipient of several research grants and awards as the FRQSC scholarship and the Joseph-Armand-Bombardier scholarship. She is active as an educator offering studio art workshops and e-textile master classes. \n  \n  \nNovember 17\, 2025\n1-5 PM\nTextiles + Materiality Commons EV 10.730 \n🎟️ Spots are limited\, please make sure you register here to participate! \nMarc Beaulieu will get back to you within a few days to confirm your spot.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tactile-sound/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Guest Talk: Sara Grimes - Parasocial Gameworlds: Play with Friends\, Influencers\, and AI NPCs.
DESCRIPTION:Join TAG on November 19 for a talk on children’s digital play with Sara M. Grimes. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nSara M. Grimes is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy and a Full Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She is the Director and Founder of the Kids Play Tech Lab\, and Principal Investigator of the SSHRC-funded Children and Age-Appropriate Game Design Project. Her research and teaching are centered in the areas of children’s digital media culture(s) and children’s rights in the digital environment\, with a focus on games. Her award-winning book\, Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces\, Virtual Worlds\, and Connected Games\, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2021. She is currently working on a new book\, Kidfluenced\, under contract with the University of California Press\, about children as creators of digital games\, media and other content. \n  \n  \n  \n🗓November  19\, 2025\n🕒 4:30 PM\n📍TAG Lab EV 11.435
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/guest-talk-sara-grimes-parasocial-gameworlds-play-with-friends-influencers-and-ai-npcs/
LOCATION:TAG Lab (EV 11.435)
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:[BOOK TALK] Critical Design Research Methods
DESCRIPTION:Join Machine Agencies research group for a a book talk with author Katerine Reilly. \nThe ecological\, social\, and political challenges of our time require creative\, more-than-human\, and futures-oriented engagements. However\, our experience of information systems and datafication can leave us feeling alienated from our capacity for imaginative\, caring\, engaged\, or collaborative thinking\, making\, or doing. How can the field of communications address this challenge? \nThis talk will explore the power of community engaged design processes to create space for embedded\, embodied\, and emergent thinking. This approach and its results will be illustrated with projects about data literacy\, environmental education\, and digital sovereignty. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nData increasingly forms the backbone of systems and processes that shape how we do things and how we relate to each other. Datafication – the uptake of data to reorganize social processes – is reshaping everything from loyalty programs and digital identification systems to credit card payments and rental pricing platforms. Artificial intelligence accelerates these processes. \nMaking sense of what these changes mean for our everyday lives is no easy task. Datafied systems are highly technical and designed to be convenient and seamless; we tend to encounter them in brief moments of individualized transaction\, which makes them difficult to see\, let alone read\, and their illegibility makes them very challenging to respond to. Communing Data Literacy offers a novel set of concepts and tools to help people make sense of how technology is altering their communities and their social interactions. Building on three years of design research by digital rights organizations in Chile\, Colombia\, Paraguay\, Peru\, and Uruguay\, the volume analyzes people’s everyday experiences with datafication\, rethinking data from the perspective of community and offering practical techniques for community engagement. \nCommuning Data Literacy pushes back against the individualism and technocentrism of Western data literacy practice and scholarship\, providing English readers the opportunity to engage with Latin American perspectives. \n  \nABOUT KATERINE REILLY: \nKatherine Reilly is the lead author on Communing Data Literacy: Tools and Concepts for Social Engagement (MQUP\, 2025)\, “Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-Than-Human Worlds” (Somatechnics\, 2025)\, and Dialogando Sobre Datos: Un Audiolibro Sobre el Colonialismo de Datos (Tierra Común\, 2025). She is a member of the Latin American data colonialism network Tierra Común\, as well as Simon Fraser University’s Imaginative Methods Lab\, and Scholarly Communications Lab. She is an Associate Professor in SFU’s School of Communication. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES: \nMachine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers located within the Milieux Institute investigating artificial intelligence technologies\, the culture of AI development\, and AI’s social\, political\, and environmental consequences. As a research community\, we encourage cooperation and play\, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering\, artistic creation\, academic debate\, policy development\, and public discourse. \n  \n🗓 November 20\, 2025\n🕒 12-1:30 PM\n📍EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-talk-critical-design-research-methods/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:Extra-curricular:Photography\, race and citizenship in Toronto's University Settlement House\, 1946-56
DESCRIPTION:Join Media and Materiality Cluster for the second talk of the Montreal Media History Seminar\, a series of public talks and discussions on recent media scholarship. \nABOUT THE TALK: \nWhat is the social significance of a photographic archive with no\, or at most a very accidental\, external audience? Is it akin to photographs that are taken but never printed\, filed away as negatives in a basement or library? For a social historian of photography\, interested in where photographs circulated and how viewers understood them\, how can we begin to understand what these images meant to their authors and subjects? \nThis talk examines these questions through the photographic archives of Toronto’s University Settlement House: a radical experiment in social work that foregrounded extra-curricular activities—art and music classes\, theatre productions\, recreational sports clubs\, Sunday evening dances\, and summer camps\, but also language classes\, library facilities\, medical clinics and lunchrooms—as vital means for providing “lessons in citizenship and cooperative organization” (James 2001). Located in Toronto’s Ward neighbourhood—a site of an influx of non-European immigration that middle class residents worried would disrupt the moral fabric of the city—the University Settlement House’s activities were fastidiously documented by amateur photographers and now reside in the City of Toronto Archives. \nAs part of Moser’s wider project examining the history of photography and citizenship in Canada after 1947\, this paper examines the ways photography\, race\, and extra-curricular activities came together as technologies of assimilation and settlement in the University Settlement House archive. But it equally asks how community members used these same technologies for acts of resistance\, de-segregation and transnational alliance. Paying an inordinate amount of attention to these everyday images of extra-curricular activities that rarely circulated outside the walls of the settlement house\, Gabrielle Moser argues that these photographs impart lessons of their own about the precarities of belonging in multicultural Canada. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER: \nGabrielle Moser is an art historian\, writer\, and independent curator. She is the author of Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire (Penn State University Press\, 2019) and\, with Adrienne Huard\, co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Visual Culture on reparation (2022). Moser is currently at work on her second book\, Citizen Subjects: Photography and Sovereignty in Post-War Canada (under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press). A founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA\, Moser is Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art\, and Associate Professor in Art History at Concordia University in Montréal. \n  \n  \n\n November 28\, 2025\n3:30-5 PM\nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705 \n🎟️ Please make sure you register here to participate! \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/extra-curricularphotography-race-and-citizenship-in-torontos-university-settlement-house-1946-56/
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