Sense of the City
Sense of the City explores urban phenomena and perceptions of the city which have traditionally been ignored, repressed, or maligned. Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a re-thinking of latent qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban(...)
Main galleries
26 October 2005 to 10 September 2006
Sense of the City
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Sense of the City explores urban phenomena and perceptions of the city which have traditionally been ignored, repressed, or maligned. Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a re-thinking of latent qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban(...)
Main galleries
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Flirting With Fulfilment
Flirting With Fulfilment
Samir Bantal interviewed by Jack Self on the consumer's search for meaning in contemporary retail environments
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Retail Apocalypse
Opening
Paul-Desmarais Theatre and Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
Retail apocalypse, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen, eth, gta, SSENSE
22 September 2022, 6 to 9pm
Paul-Desmarais Theatre and Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
Retail apocalypse, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen, eth, gta, SSENSE
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Commercial Proximities
Commercial Proximities
Jack Self in discussion with Samuel Ross, designer and director of A-COLD-WALL*, on how commercial design builds a contemporary commons
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The Sensory Interior
The rest of your senses
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Constance Classen
Beckford and Fonthill: Creating a Palace of the Senses
26 July 2007
Soap
This Thursday the CCA teams up with Pecha Kucha Montréal to host Soap, a special edition exploring issues of cleanliness within the context of Montréal.
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
soap, sense of the city, Jennifer Blair, Patrick Evans, Peter Fianu, Andrew Emond, Jason Prince, Nicholas Reeves
11 February 2010 , 6PM
Soap
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This Thursday the CCA teams up with Pecha Kucha Montréal to host Soap, a special edition exploring issues of cleanliness within the context of Montréal.
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
soap, sense of the city, Jennifer Blair, Patrick Evans, Peter Fianu, Andrew Emond, Jason Prince, Nicholas Reeves
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Sounding Towers
The rest of your senses
20th century, 21st century, Carlotta Darò, Chabolovka, communism, communisme, El Lissitzky, Emily Thompson, Geoff Manaugh, Ilia Chashnik, Karin Bijsterveld, Lenin, Lénine, Lissitzky, photographie, photography, radio, Richard Pare, Sabine von Fischer, Sensations urbaines, Sense of the City, Shabolovka, Soviet Union, Susan Buck-Morss, technologie, technology, tour, tower, Union soviétique, Vitebsk, Vladimir Shukhov, XXe siècle, XXIe siècle
23 July 2012
The rest of your senses
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Visiting Scholars 2007
S.M. Can Bilsel, University of San Diego, San Diego, United States Topic: The Modern Cult of Authenticity: Reproduction of Antiquity and the Location of Architecture in the 20th Century Museum Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Topic: Beckford and Fonthill: Creating a Palace of the Senses Seminar: Multisensory Marketing and the Design of Retail(...)
May 2007 to September 2007
Visiting Scholars 2007
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S.M. Can Bilsel, University of San Diego, San Diego, United States Topic: The Modern Cult of Authenticity: Reproduction of Antiquity and the Location of Architecture in the 20th Century Museum Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Topic: Beckford and Fonthill: Creating a Palace of the Senses Seminar: Multisensory Marketing and the Design of Retail(...)
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May 2007 to
September 2007
The Unschool
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
30 July 2012 to 3 August 2012
The Unschool
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What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)