Place des Montréalaises 21 Women: re calibrating public space for inclusion and social equity - REGULAR

Place des Montréalaises 21 Women: Re Calibrating Public Space for Inclusion and Social Equity

This webinar is part of the RAIC 2022 Virtual Conference on Architecture, now available to stream!

Topics: Urbanism

Length: 1.5 hours | What's Included: Video, Quiz, and Certificate of Completion 

21 WOMEN explores the role architecture, art, and design have in re-framing and re-defining history. La Place des Montréalaises pays tribute to the varied historical contributions of women in Montreal’s evolution. Poetically merging architecture, landscape design and art methodologies the project creates a series of moments in homage to female pioneers, transforming the site from its former use as a highway into a perennial meadow, simultaneously defining the horizon and framing Montreal’s City Hall. The new urban space is a generative and restorative topography drawing on Montréal’s collective memory. Design leader Andrew King and conceptual artist Angela Silver bring the experience of their 30-year trans-disciplinary practice to frame the winning proposition for the international urban space design competition. The image-rich presentation will explore trans-disciplinary research methodologies: architecture, art and landscape architecture converge in a critically driven design process, that can expand the conceptual design process. Powerful and clear formal strategies, academic research, environmental resilience and user experience are threads that form the design armature. Angela Silver’s powerful creation methodologies add a key layer to the project’s resonance.

Learning Objectives:

By the completion of this session, participants will be able to:

• Define trans-disciplinary research methodologies in architecture, art and landscape architecture and explain how they can expand the conceptual design process.
• Identify nuanced commemoration strategies: architecture difficult relationship with memory, the memorial and history are engaged head-on through the research, organization and articulation of the primary subjects of Place des Montréalaises
• Recognize broader urban design linkages through public space systems.
• Conceptualize the broader urban design issues of the contemporary city.

Subject Matter Experts:

Andrew King is one of Canada’s most highly recognized design leaders. King has evolved an inter-disciplinary practice model that merges speculative small practice, large firm design leadership and academic research. King has been heavily recognized, with awards including the Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome, four Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence and two AIA Progressive Architecture (P/A) Awards of Excellence. King is Chief Design Officer at Lemay and leads FLDWRK, Lemay's research and design laboratory in Montreal. He has led the conceptual design some of the finest buildings in Canada and internationally, including the Canadian Architect Award winners Place de Montrealaises, Oratoire St. Joseph, the York University Student Centre and the AIA. King holds the Professor in Practice Chair at McGill University's School of Architecture. He has lectured and exhibited internationally, including the Iceland School of Design, the Tate Gallery, La Sapienza University in Rome, New York University, the Design Exchange and the Walter Philips Gallery. King's work in trans-disiplinary design research across the   art/architecture paradigm has included collaboration with galleries and institutions across Canada. He is currently the Professor in Practice at McGill School of Architecture, leading a series of studios dealing with art and architecture methodologies. He is founder of AK A, an ongoing design and art research initiative. He has practiced and taught across Canada and in London, Berlin, Budapest, Rome, Seville, and Copenhagen. King was the Gerald Sheff visiting professorship at McGill university’s school of architecture (2012) and the Azrieli visiting   chair at Carleton university’s Azrieli school of architecture and urbanism   (2009-2010). In 2004, he was visiting professor at Copenhagen’s royal academy   of art, and he has held visiting, adjunct, and special faculty appointments in art and architecture at the university of Calgary, McGill, UBC, Dalhousie, Mount Allison and Banff Centre for the arts.

Angela Silver
BFA, MFA, PHD
Artist, Angela Silver

Angela Silver is a visual artist and co-laureate of the international design competition Places des Montréalaise (PDM). This aspirational socially inclusive space won an award of excellence from Canadian Architect in 2020. Based in Montreal, she shares a teaching and research practice with Andrew King at McGill University. She is currently completing her PhD candidature in   Cultural Studies at Queens University. Under the canopy of Archaeologies of   Inscription, she draws, performs, and reworks information systems and   moribund printing tools. She has presented her work internationally at FACT,   Liverpool UK DAC in Brooklyn, the Textile Research Center Leiden, at Wordfest International Writers Festival, in Rome, Openstudio with work in the   collection of Idea Exchange, Cambridge. Her work can be found at angelasilver.com

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