Thursday October 19, 2023
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Exhibition Vernissage
Location: Macdonald Harrington Building, Room 114, 815 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C2, CA
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Opening Keynote
Location: Macdonald Harrington Building, G-10, 815 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C2, CA
Welcome by David Theodore, McGill University
Vikram Bhatt, McGill University
Thousand Million Clients
In Conversation with Ipek Türeli, McGill University, and Robert Mellin, McGill University
Friday October 20, 2023
8:30 am – 4:00 pm | Sessions
Location: Thomson House, 3rd floor, Ballroom, 3650 Mc Tavish St, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1Y2
8:30 am – 9:00 am | Registration and Welcome
9:00 am – 10:00 am | Session I
Moderator: Gonzalo Lizarralde, University of Montreal
Zeenat Niazi, Development Alternatives Group
Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen: Affordable Housing in a Climate Constrained World – A View from India
Jesus Navarrete, Inter-American Development Bank
MCHG’s Teachings as Foundations to Improving Lives in Latin America and the Caribbean
Balakrishna Menon Parameswaran, World Bank Group
Delivering Global Public Goods Through Local Governments
10:00 am – 11:00 am | Session II
Moderator: Marie-Pierre McDonald, BC2
Tasneem Chowdhury, University of Illinois at Chicago
Culture, Women, Toilets and MCHG: How the Other Half Lives
Rachelle Navarro Åstrand, Sweco Sverige AB
What Makes a Good Place for All to Live In?
Varun Thautam, Varun Thautam Architects
Design of Pedagogy as a Tool for Building
11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Session III
Moderator: Georgia Cardosi, University of Montreal
Leila Marie Farah, Toronto Metropolitan University
Designing for Urban Agriculture and Community Participation
Rune Kongshaug, Produktif
A futurist's retrospective on MCHG: It is always about people
Meltem Yılmaz, Hacettepe University
Campus Agriculture Applications in Hacettepe University within the Scope of Sustainability
2 pm – 3 pm | Session IV
Moderator: Arièle Dionne-Krosnick, McGill University
Martha Schwindling, Studio Martha Schwindling
Researching Research: Bauhaus Lab 2020
Cassidy Johnson, University College London
Housing and Urbanisation: Reflections on the MCHG, the Bartlett Development Planning Unit and Beyond
Martien de Vletter, Canadian Centre for Architecture
Minimum Cost Housing Archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Session V
Moderator: Ipek Türeli, McGill University
Meredith Gaglio, Louisiana State University
MCHG’s Sulfur Housing, 1971–1975: An Architectural Response to Canada’s Extractive “Commodity in Glut”
Bushra Nayeem, University of Kansas
Transitioning the Problem to the Possibilities
Lee Stickells, University of Sidney
Model students: The ECOL Operation 1970-1976
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm | Closing keynote
Location: Faculty of Law, New Chancellor Day Hall, Room 100, 3644 Rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA
Witold Rybczynski, University of Pennsylvania
Green Before Green
Symposium
McGill University campus is accessible via public transportation. The event venues are accessible by elevator but not all are wheelchair accessible.
Thomson House is accessible via ramp from the terrace adjacent to the side parking lot only. The event venue is accessible via elevator.
McGill University, 815 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C2, CA
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We are proud to announce that our event has been awarded Gold Sustainable Event certification by the McGill Sustainable Events program run by the McGill Office of Sustainability.
Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer que notre événement a été certifié comme événement D’Or par le programme Événements durables McGill du Bureau du développement durable de l’Université McGill. |
We respectfully acknowledge that McGill University is located on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations.