madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media investigates popular social media clips documenting construction work by those present on site. Inspired by the rise of the creator economy, contractors, builders, and tradespeople have started to record and share their skills, creativity, and concerns with a digitally connected community of peers, clients, and(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
social media, TikTok, Instagram, architectural photography, construction workers, labour, skills
June 2024 to October 2024
madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media
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madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media investigates popular social media clips documenting construction work by those present on site. Inspired by the rise of the creator economy, contractors, builders, and tradespeople have started to record and share their skills, creativity, and concerns with a digitally connected community of peers, clients, and(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
social media, TikTok, Instagram, architectural photography, construction workers, labour, skills
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
11 October 1995 to 4 February 1996
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction
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Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
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4 December 1991 to 8 March 1992
Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
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Join us on 6 June for the opening of madskills: Self Documenting Construction on Social Media, an exhibition curated by Hester Keijser, CCA Curator of Photography and New Media, investigating social media clips that document the construction industry, created and disseminated by those present on site.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre and Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
Madskills, construction, social media
6 June 2024, 5pm to 9pm
Opening: madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media
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Join us on 6 June for the opening of madskills: Self Documenting Construction on Social Media, an exhibition curated by Hester Keijser, CCA Curator of Photography and New Media, investigating social media clips that document the construction industry, created and disseminated by those present on site.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre and Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
Madskills, construction, social media
Visiting Scholar, Juliet Koss, "USSR in Construction" in Construction, USSR in Construction, Soviet avant-garde, Kasimir Malevich
10 July 2008
Not only do toys provide evidence of the social and economic life of their period, but architectural toys ranging from wooden building blocks to iron and steel construction sets reflect distinct stylistic predilections and technological advances. New industrial and building techniques were used not only to create the new building types transforming our cities, but were(...)
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28 November 1990 to 31 March 1991
Buildings in Boxes: Architectural Toys from the CCA
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Not only do toys provide evidence of the social and economic life of their period, but architectural toys ranging from wooden building blocks to iron and steel construction sets reflect distinct stylistic predilections and technological advances. New industrial and building techniques were used not only to create the new building types transforming our cities, but were(...)
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Parallel Construction
15 October 2024
Parallel Construction
Stéphane Aleixandre considers the murkiness of copyright on social media and its impact on construction images
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A Way of Becoming
8 April 2024
A Way of Becoming
Jenni Hakovirta, Nicole Luke, and Naomi Ratte explore the values of Indigenous building
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3 August 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
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With and Within
Clara Simay, Marine Kerboua, Julia Turpin, Kim Courrèges, Felipe de Ferrari, Plan Común, With and Within
26 June 2021
Circular and Solidarity-based Construction
Kim Courrèges and Felipe de Ferrari of Plan Común speak with Clara Simay of Grand Huit about circular economy and redefining a project’s stakeholders
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With and Within