Length: 1 CEU
Topic: Practice / Business
Delivery Mode: Online On-Demand
What's Included: Video, Quiz, & Certificate
Registration Fee: Members $50 | Intern $35 | Student $25 | Non-Member $75
This webinar is part of the RAIC 2025 Conference on Architecture!
This session will present - for the first time - the “new roadmaps to quality in architecture” produced by 14 cross-sector teams in 2024-2025 as part of the partnership funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
These approaches define an “inclusive quality” that challenges traditional frameworks for defining quality, and formulates concrete proposals for the short, medium and long term in 14 representative situations across Canada.
These roadmaps have been developed since 2022 by teams made up of four types of players in the built environment: citizens' groups, representatives of the public sector, professionals, researchers and students. The aim of the session is to understand how to improve the quality of built environments by making them more accessible, more equitable and more respectful of the natural environment. The social value of inclusive quality is not just the responsibility of professionals, experts or specialists. It's a shared responsibility in a democratic society where no one is left behind.
Describe the principles of inclusive redefinition of quality in architecture.
Recognize and reflect on the diversity of emerging expectations related to partnership approaches in architecture.
Examine proposals currently under development at 14 partnered research sites across Canada to understand their contributions to architectural innovation.
Formulate and share actionable ideas for short-, medium-, and long-term strategies to enhance quality in Canada’s built environment.
Subject Matter Experts:
Dr. Carmela Cucuzzella
PhD
Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design, Université de Montréal
Carmela Cucuzzella is the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Montreal. Previously, she was a full professor in the Design and Computation Arts Department at Concordia University. She was the founding co-director of the Next Generation Cities Institute (IVDG) at Concordia University and held the University Research Chair in Integrated Design and Sustainability of the Built Environment (IDEAS-BE). Her research focuses on the sustainable design of spaces for health and aging in place in cities. She has also worked on research related to the didactic phenomena of eco-art, architecture, and design in the city as a means of raising awareness and mobilizing action for sustainability. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed international journals and several books on sustainable architecture beyond metrics, collaborative books as social projects for the community, among other topics in sustainable design.
Dr. Jean-Pierre Chupin
PhD, architecte MOAQ, MIRAC, DPLG France, DipArch (2) UK
Full Professor, Université de Montréal
Professor and architect (MOAQ, MIRAC, DPLG (FR), DipArch2 (UK)), Jean-Pierre Chupin holds the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions, and the Mediation of Excellence at the University of Montreal (www.crc.umontreal.ca). He has published numerous works on analogical thinking, competitions, awards, design thinking, quality, judgment, tectonics, and imagination. A specialist in design competitions and award systems, he is the editor-in-chief of two online databases on contemporary projects and buildings: the Canadian Competitions Catalogue (CCC) (www.ccc.umontreal.ca) and the search engine for Excellence Awards in Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape in Canada (https://architecture-excellence.org). Since 2022, he has been the scientific director of the research partnership Quality in Canada’s Built Environment: Roadmaps for Equity, Social Value, and Sustainability (www.livingatlasofquality.ca). Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada until 2027, this interdisciplinary project brings together 14 universities, 70 researchers, and 68 public and private organizations at municipal, provincial, and national levels.
This webinar is in English. Closed captions have been provided in both English and French.
Pricing
Member: $50 / Non-Member: $75
Intern Member: $35 / Intern Non-Member: $75
Student: $25 (must be an RAIC student associate member)