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Mandana Bafghinia, doctoral student, receives a Cardinal and Hardy scholarship for her research project

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Mandana Bafghinia, doctoral student in architecture under the direction of Jean-Pierre Chupin, receives the Cardinal and Hardy scholarship, valued at $8,000, for the research project “Habiter les toits, dialogue in the shadow of high-rise buildings”, attached to the Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence

LEAP takes part in 27 brainstorming sessions on the determinants of quality in architecture

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For three weeks in May 2020, 3 groups of researchers and professionals across Canada participated in 3 brainstorming sessions per week, with 9 Zoom sessions per group, for a total of 27 sessions.

This series of remote exchanges is part of both the establishment of a large collaborative and research network on the quality of built environments (AREA) and the design of a digital platform or « Atlas of Excellence in Architecture » capable of supporting long-term research on the understanding and dissemination of best practices in the Canadian context (AEA). This database is decentralized and in open access.

Coordination: Jean-Pierre Chupin (Université de Montréal), Terrance Galvin (Laurentian University)

Doctoral students and assistants: Mandana Bafghinia, Aurélien Catros, Sherif Goubran, Firdous Nizar, Lucie Palombi, Alexandra Paré, Anne-Lise Belbezet

Ipek Tureli (McGill University), Carmela Cucuzzella (Concordia University), Jean-Pierre Chupin (Université de Montréal) are participating in the online version of the major annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians

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On May 1st, Ipek Tureli (McGill University), Carmela Cucuzzella (Concordia University), Jean-Pierre Chupin (Université de Montréal) are participating in the online version of the major annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians originally scheduled to be held in Seattle in May 2020.

Ipek leads the PS25 session: The Campus: Pedagogy and Spatial Imagination, while Jean-Pierre presents in the PS25 session and Carmela in the PS23 session (Urban Affects: A New Materialist Approach to the Global City).

Georges Adamczyk and Anne Sabourin led a workshop

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Georges Adamczyk, professor at the Université de Montréal and Anne Sabourin, guest professor at the School of Architecture and doctoral student at UQAM under the direction of Louise Pelletier, led a workshop in the third year of the bachelor’s degree. This workshop proposed a critical reflection on the question of the architecture program as well as a disciplinary opening towards contemporary dance creation and scenography.

Carmela Cucuzzella, Jean-Pierre Chupin, Cynthia Hammond are invited guest editors for a special issue of Sustainability Journal

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Carmela Cucuzzella, Jean-Pierre Chupin, Cynthia Hammond are invited guest editors for special issue (upcoming 2021), “Eco-didactic art, design, and architecture in the public realm”, Sustainability Journal (MDPI), special issue, deadline for manuscripts Nov 15, 2020

For more information : www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Ecodidactic

Cynthia Hammond has been awarded a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for the project, “La ville extraordinaire: Learning from older Montrealers’ urban knowledge through oral history research-creation”

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Working with LEAP team member, Denis Bilodeau and a team of seven other professors and community partners, Cynthia Hammond will be leading a 3-year research-creation project that focuses on the ways in which four different communities of older Montrealers have shaped the city of Montreal over time.