Travel Narratives

Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Time: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Room 3110

Event moderated by Paloma Castonguay-Rufino, PhD candidate at the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competition, and Quality (CRC-ACQUA) and the Laboratoire d’Étude de l’Architecture Potentielle (LEAP)

Travel narratives serve as tools for capturing the various aspects of the travel experience, as a form of cultural immersion. In the field of architecture, they are accompanied by various means of capturing these experiences through texts, sketches, architectural details, photographs, collages, etc. Thus, the travel narrative allows us to explore a culture and its contexts through a personal and intimate perspective, as well as an architectural vision.

Maria Moreno Ramirez
Vers une architecture féministe : repenser l’habitat collectif pour des milieux de vie inclusifs
Bourse de voyage du fonds Jodoin Lamarre Pratte architectes 2025

Xavier St-Jean, former student member of CRC-ACQUA and LEAP
Faudrait-il de nouveaux Jeux olympiques à Montréal pour rendre la ville accessible ? Paris 2024 comme cas d’étude de la réhabilitation accessible des équipements sportifs existants
Bourse universitaire de l’OAQ 2025

Frédérick Langevin
La course vers l’or blanc, que reste-t-il aujourd’hui ?
Bourse André‑Francou 2025

Joëlle Tétrault, former student member of CRC-ACQUA and LEAP
Titre de la présentation à venir
Bourse André‑Francou 2024

Graduate Seminar with Dr Marie Cecile Kotyk 

Date and time: March 18, 2026 from 1:30 to 5:00 pm.
Held at: LEAP, 2064 (Faculté de l’Aménagement, UdeM)

With Dr. Marie Cecile Kotyk, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (SAPL), University of Calgary and member of the Design Justice Research Chair

And in discussion with Dr. Jean-Pierre Chupin, Professor, School of Architecture, Université de Montréal
Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence

Presenting PhD Students: 

Juliane Alexandre Colmado, étudiante au doctorat individualisé en architecture, Université de Montréal

The Phonotope : shaping sound for a (un-)silenced architecture

Olivia Daigneault Deschênes, étudiante au doctorat individualisé en architecture, Université de Montréal

From Tlachiuak, Montreal (Tiohtià :ke) to Lucha y Siesta, Roma : Architecture as complicit in emancipatory struggles

Yolene Handabaka Ames, étudiante au doctorat individualisé en architecture, Université de Montréal

Between demolition and adaptative reuse : social value as a lever of bottom-up heritage-making

Paloma Castonguay-Rufino, étudiante au doctorat individualisé en architecture, Université Montréal

From post-industrial obsolescence to civic space : reconversion cultures and the architectural reuse of industrial heritage in Canada

Shantanu Biswas Linkon, étudiant au doctorat individualisé en architecture, Université de Montréal

Indexing social value in architecture : comparing community centers and libraries both in Bangladesh and Canada through inclusiveness and spatial justice

Raquel Fernandez, étudiante au doctorat individualisé en architecture, Université de Montréal

Women’s collective housing : a feminist approach to housing

Cyrille Jérôme Tchango Ngamaleu , étudiant au doctorat individualisé en architecture, Université de Montréal

The intention to support care through architecture : a comparative study of the tectonics of the Maggie Centers’ Pavilions