Our public programs are platforms that allow us to reflect on and impact how the built environment is designed, produced, and understood. As occasions for dialogue, debates, and discoveries, these programs explore architecture, the built environment, and our living spaces. They are conceived in dialogue with our research, exhibition, and publication projects as well as with our evolving Collection.

Through discussions, conferences, seminars, book launches, and film screenings, we invite a diverse range of voices to question traditional definitions of architecture, of the city, of the landscape and of the architect’s role in society. These events are particularly focused on urgent or neglected issues related to current social, environmental, or economic shifts. You will find our complete programming on our calendar page.

In our guided tours and workshops groups of all ages can discover our exhibitions, our building, and our sculpture garden, and discuss the various questions they pose. Contact us at public@cca.qc.ca to book a tour.

For youth aged 5 to 17, we organize tours and workshops where we welcome diverse points of view and forms of knowledge in order to develop critical ways of understanding and acting upon our built environment. Consult our Youth Programs page to know more.

For students, we offer programs for university and college groups, including open sessions around a selection of objects from our Collection, the Interuniversity Charrette (a three-day competition for architecture students), and an open house night during which students can discover our activities, meet members of the CCA’s various departments and learn more about the opportunities that we offer. You will find these events on our calendar.

In 2023 and 2024, we launched two special projects centred on the creation, management, and impact of collective spaces and at their impact on both the built environment and communities.

The first of these projects, Making Mamak: Collective Ecologies of Urban Space was realized by our 2022-2023 Emerging Curator Clarissa Lim Kye Lee with the participation of Malaysian artist collectives.

The second project, Diverse Pasts and Near Futures, is a program for youth aged 13 to 17 developed in partnership with Scotiabank. It consists of a series of workshops and discussions taking place at the CCA and in Little Burgundy and looking at the creation of a new community space in the neighbourhood.

We are open to collaborations for special projects. Contact us at public@cca.qc.ca or at +1 514 939 7002 to begin a discussion.