Speculative Life - Environmental Materials and/as Methods
Schedule
Thu, 07 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Fri, 08 May, 2026 at 05:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Concordia University | Montreal, QC
About this Event
Conference is free and open to the public.
Interested participants for the workshop must register online by ordering a free ticket on this page.
May 7-8 (1pm-5pm)
Talks and roundtables
Heather Davis, Producing Plastic Air
Director and Associate Professor of Culture and Media
Eugene Lang College, The New School
Juliette Bibasse, Creating at Large — prototyping off the grid and slowing down
Artist, Independent curator & studio director, Lemercier Studio, Bruxelles
Hexagram’s Ecotechnology Cluster
Site-responsive materials and methods: a water reservoir and its sediments
Martin Beauregard, Jean-François Côté, Natalie Doonan, Alice Jarry,
Marie-Christianne Mathieu, Gisèle Trudel
Natalie Doonan, Book Launch at 4th Space
May 8 (9am-5pm)
Public workshop
How to mediate the banal? Inspired by Heather Davis’s forthcoming piece, Banal Violence: Breathing Plastic Air, this two-day workshop—organized by grad students from the Speculative Life research cluster at Concordia’s Milieux Institute—invites participants to investigate materiality as both object and method of study. Together, we will engage using critical walking, cartography, microscopy & biomaterial imprints.
The workshop is free, no experience is required. Max of 20 participants.
Interested participants must register online.
All events take place at the Speculative Life Research Cluster Commons
Concordia University, Milieux Institute
1515 St-Catherine West, Montreal, H3G 1M8, Room EV 10.625
Information: [email protected]
Where is it happening?
Concordia University, 1455 Boulevard De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
