From 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.
[March 26] The Virtual Gallery
This 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.
This 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!
📅 March 26, 2026
⏱️ 11:30 AM – 3:30 PM
📍MilieuxMake Space EV 10.825 / Immersive Storytelling Studio EV 1.631
[April 9] Bio-inspired Folding Techniques
Hosted 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.
📅 April 9, 2026
⏱️ 1 – 5 PM
📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
[April 23] The Ghostly Image
This 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.
📅 April 23, 2026
⏱️ 1 – 4 PM
📍MilieuxMake Space EV 11.825
[April 30] Archiving with Bioplastics
More info to come soon.
This workshop series would be not be possible without the generous support of Hexagram.
