As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
1 December 2016, 6pm
In the Frontiers of Climate Change (Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Rights)
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As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
24 November 2016, 6pm
Iceberg Alley, Climate Change, and Canada’s Grey Resources
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Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
In an age of unprecedented human impact on the planet, certain countries stand out for their privileged positions and the complexity of their relationships with the land. Stories about Canada closely follow the discovery and appropriation of vast and varied natural resources as well as changing ideas of the proper relationship between people and their environment.(...)
16 November 2016 to 9 April 2017
It’s All Happening So Fast
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In an age of unprecedented human impact on the planet, certain countries stand out for their privileged positions and the complexity of their relationships with the land. Stories about Canada closely follow the discovery and appropriation of vast and varied natural resources as well as changing ideas of the proper relationship between people and their environment.(...)
Come help us add facts to Wikipedia around climate change. Free access to our galleries. Open to all.
The Study Room at the CCA
30 April 2025
Wiki Edit-a-thon #3
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Come help us add facts to Wikipedia around climate change. Free access to our galleries. Open to all.
The Study Room at the CCA
articles
Troubled Waters
Nature reorganized
20 January 2017
Troubled Waters
The Hudson River as Symbol of America’s Past and Harbinger of the Future
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Nature reorganized
articles
From Commodity to Community?
The planet is the client
22 December 2016
The planet is the client
articles
The River and the Risk
Keep Safe
Keep Safe, photography, landscape, river landscape, floods, Germany, Ahr Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, landscape conservation, landscape protection, AfD, Heimat
2 July 2024
The River and the Risk
Leonie Hartung asks what it means to legally protect a (river-)landscape when the concept of landscape itself is no longer tangible
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Keep Safe
textual records
AP075.S2.SS3.001
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Includes Berlin city guide, correspondence, printouts of flight and hotel information, photocopy of article, typscript of lecture entitled "Canadian efforts to halt climate change", delivered at TU Berlin - Institut fur Landschaftsarchitektur und Umweltplanung on November 17, 2006. Original folder entitled "Berlin 2006 Nov.".
2006-2007
Correspondence for the planning of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander participation to an exhibition at the Goethe Institute in Berlin, Germany
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AP075.S2.SS3.001
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Includes Berlin city guide, correspondence, printouts of flight and hotel information, photocopy of article, typscript of lecture entitled "Canadian efforts to halt climate change", delivered at TU Berlin - Institut fur Landschaftsarchitektur und Umweltplanung on November 17, 2006. Original folder entitled "Berlin 2006 Nov.".
textual records
2006-2007
Series
AP193.S1
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Series 1, Water Flux and Scrambled Flat, 2002-2010, documents the conception and evolution of a project that was originally a farm building and later became a geology and glaciology museum and research center focused on the Swiss Alps. The project was never realized. R&Sie(n) conceptualized Scrambled Flat as an experimental farm. The project goal was to reconcile European Union’s agricultural regulations, imposing a separation between animal and human living, to the community of Évolène traditional way of living, contiguously with animals, benefiting from the resources they offer. As conceived, Scrambled Flat creates an environment where fluidity between the existence of the animals and the humans is materialized. The size of the form is also adapted from a typical local rural house and exploits the heat of the animals and the insulation of the hay. For this project, R&Sie(n) approached the mayor of the community with the design proposition. The mayor then called for a competition, while also changing the program to an ecology museum and research center illustrating the local effects of global warming and the thawing of the Alps. R&Sie(n) won the competition with Water Flux, a reinterpretation of Scrambled Flat. The project was intended to uncover and exorcise the anxieties of ecological disaster, and the principle of flux related to seasonal change and, more broadly, climate change. The firm designed rooms that reproduce the geological and meteorological environment of the high mountains making it visible and experimental, offering refrigerated spaces for art installations and scientific demonstrations. The concept was also to build with the use of new technologies such as digital modelling, point scanning, and computer numerical control (CNC), combined with ancient local knowledge of knocking on trees to decide which specific pines have the best wood for construction. The building is designed to be constructed with local lamellar wood milled by nearby CNC. The resulting parts would be used for the structure, the insulation, the waterproofing and both the interior and exterior finishes. The design includes a grille wrapping the building, reproducing the profile of traditional houses and enclosure and making it possible to hold the snow inside a typo-morphological imprint. Therefore, the transformable envelope of the building reacts to the rhythm of the seasons. In the winter, the structure would appear like a solid cut-out of ice and snow, with cavities similar to those found in glaciers. In the summer, it would resemble piles of stones used in these areas to make borders. A small pool would collect rainwater and supply it to an interior artificial snowmaking system designed for the gallery. Transformation of the water is an integral part of the design. The records contain images of plans, sections, details for the structure of the façade, renderings, plans of the engineered structure, and photographs documenting the conception of the models with the CNC machinery. The Rhino 3D modelling files are also part of the records along with AutoCAD models and a video documenting the process. The records contain two physical models: a smaller polymer model at 1:20 scale representing the whole structure of the building, and a larger 1:1 latch wood fragment representing detail of the structure in its integrality.
2002-2010
Water Flux and Scrambled Flat
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AP193.S1
Description:
Series 1, Water Flux and Scrambled Flat, 2002-2010, documents the conception and evolution of a project that was originally a farm building and later became a geology and glaciology museum and research center focused on the Swiss Alps. The project was never realized. R&Sie(n) conceptualized Scrambled Flat as an experimental farm. The project goal was to reconcile European Union’s agricultural regulations, imposing a separation between animal and human living, to the community of Évolène traditional way of living, contiguously with animals, benefiting from the resources they offer. As conceived, Scrambled Flat creates an environment where fluidity between the existence of the animals and the humans is materialized. The size of the form is also adapted from a typical local rural house and exploits the heat of the animals and the insulation of the hay. For this project, R&Sie(n) approached the mayor of the community with the design proposition. The mayor then called for a competition, while also changing the program to an ecology museum and research center illustrating the local effects of global warming and the thawing of the Alps. R&Sie(n) won the competition with Water Flux, a reinterpretation of Scrambled Flat. The project was intended to uncover and exorcise the anxieties of ecological disaster, and the principle of flux related to seasonal change and, more broadly, climate change. The firm designed rooms that reproduce the geological and meteorological environment of the high mountains making it visible and experimental, offering refrigerated spaces for art installations and scientific demonstrations. The concept was also to build with the use of new technologies such as digital modelling, point scanning, and computer numerical control (CNC), combined with ancient local knowledge of knocking on trees to decide which specific pines have the best wood for construction. The building is designed to be constructed with local lamellar wood milled by nearby CNC. The resulting parts would be used for the structure, the insulation, the waterproofing and both the interior and exterior finishes. The design includes a grille wrapping the building, reproducing the profile of traditional houses and enclosure and making it possible to hold the snow inside a typo-morphological imprint. Therefore, the transformable envelope of the building reacts to the rhythm of the seasons. In the winter, the structure would appear like a solid cut-out of ice and snow, with cavities similar to those found in glaciers. In the summer, it would resemble piles of stones used in these areas to make borders. A small pool would collect rainwater and supply it to an interior artificial snowmaking system designed for the gallery. Transformation of the water is an integral part of the design. The records contain images of plans, sections, details for the structure of the façade, renderings, plans of the engineered structure, and photographs documenting the conception of the models with the CNC machinery. The Rhino 3D modelling files are also part of the records along with AutoCAD models and a video documenting the process. The records contain two physical models: a smaller polymer model at 1:20 scale representing the whole structure of the building, and a larger 1:1 latch wood fragment representing detail of the structure in its integrality.
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2002-2010
archives
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AP189
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L’installation Météorologie d’intérieur fut présentée au Centre Canadien d’Architecture (CCA) lors de l’exposition Environ(ne)ment (18 octobre 2006-10 juin 2007) et à Rovereto en Italie lors de l’exposition Manifesta 7 (19 juillet-2 novembre 2008). Les documents d’archives de l’installation comprennent le logiciel développé pour l’installation et une sélection des objets installés dans les deux espaces d’exposition. *** The installation Interior Weather was presented at the Candian Centre for Architecture (CCA) as part of the exhibition Environ(ne)ment (October 18, 2006-June 10, 2007) and in Rovereto, Italy as part of Manifesta 7 (July 19-November 2, 2008). The records of the installation Interior Weather include the software developed for the installation and a selection of objects installed in the exhibition spaces.
2000-2008
Philippe Rahm "Interior Weather" installation records
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AP189
Synopsis:
L’installation Météorologie d’intérieur fut présentée au Centre Canadien d’Architecture (CCA) lors de l’exposition Environ(ne)ment (18 octobre 2006-10 juin 2007) et à Rovereto en Italie lors de l’exposition Manifesta 7 (19 juillet-2 novembre 2008). Les documents d’archives de l’installation comprennent le logiciel développé pour l’installation et une sélection des objets installés dans les deux espaces d’exposition. *** The installation Interior Weather was presented at the Candian Centre for Architecture (CCA) as part of the exhibition Environ(ne)ment (October 18, 2006-June 10, 2007) and in Rovereto, Italy as part of Manifesta 7 (July 19-November 2, 2008). The records of the installation Interior Weather include the software developed for the installation and a selection of objects installed in the exhibition spaces.
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Fonds
2000-2008