Visit Missing Pages on https://www.missingpages.space/! Missing Pages is a community-centric online project that makes space for voices that are underrepresented in our knowledge institutions. Public catalogues of stories—whether an archive, a university, or a library—are intended to tell us who we are. However, they undoubtedly omit and exclude experiences and knowledge. This series of online artworks and public programs focuses on personal and collective narratives that shape our communities, both locally and internationally, that are...
Submission deadline: August 27, 2021 In September 2021, BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design and Cambridge Art Galleries | Idea Exchange will present Missing Pages, a community-centric project that makes space for voices that are underrepresented in our institutions. Existing public catalogues of stories — whether an archive, a university, or a library — are intended to tell us who we are. And yet, they undoubtedly omit and exclude certain experiences and forms of knowledge. Missing Pages presents...
La version française suit. Call for Proposals: Missing Pages Welcoming proposals for original artwork, presentations, workshops, and interactive programs to be presented online as part of Missing Pages during September 2021. Submission Deadline: Sunday, June 13, 2021Full details here Guided by BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design and Cambridge Art Galleries | Idea Exchange, Missing Pages is a community-centric online project that makes space for voices that are underrepresented in our knowledge institutions. Public catalogues of stories—whether an archive, a university,...
In the Autumn of 2019, the co-directors of BRIDGE, Jade Manbodh and Zach Ropel-Morski, had the first of many meetings with the Cambridge Art Galleries to plan out what was to be their second collaborative art project. After bringing on Kate Brownlie, Nicole Rak and Zaven Titizian, the team spent five months spent developing a vision for the project, releasing a call for submission, reviewing proposals, conducting interviews, finalizing artists and writing up contracts, we...
Emerging in 2018, the Waterloo Architecture Sustainability Collective has had a continually evolving role within our school, community, and profession as we advocate for environmental justice. For today’s global day of Climate Action, September 25th 2020, members of the Sustainability Collective would like to take a moment to draw attention to some of our previously unpublished work. The following two documents were developed following the workshops and discussions which took place at the School of...
“We live in the midst of a pandemic, but climate change is just as much of a crisis as it was before. As society is starting to open up in many places in the world, global emissions and resource use is rapidly increasing and we are running out of time. Therefore we call for a global day of action on September 25th. Anyone will be able to participate in a way that is safe for...
Viennese coffee houses symbolized the city’s public living room, acting as an informal gathering space for conversation and contemplation. This proposal for The Brewed, designed by 3B students Danielle Grabke and Chris Qiu, modernizes the coffee house by retaining its role as a gathering space while nesting programs that promote local innovation. (more…)
This proposal for EVOLO’s 2020 skyscraper competition was designed by 3A students Byron Cai, Chi Un Lee and Annie Wang. As the palm oil industry struggles to meet zero carbon emission and deforestation targets without halting economic activity, RE: Forest 2020 suggests a solution. The skyscraper acts as an “artificial lung” that harvests forests and captures carbon dioxide, while maintaining Indonesia’s palm oil industry.
Helsinki is an international city built on an intimate scale. Through harsh winters and heavy monsoons, Helsinki has become a city of interiors. Its society blooms indoors. This proposal for HelsinkiCall: The Design House competition, designed by Lyric Barnik, embraces this quality. It provides opportunities for cultural and artistic exchange. It borrows elements from the vernacular of the countryside, the ubiquity of the sauna and the evolution of Helsinki as a city. Form The form...
In the past few weeks, we’ve witnessed the horrific discrimination, violence and racism against the black community. These issues have been prevalent for a large component of our history. The tremendous uproar in regards to George Floyd’s death strikes a chord with many people as we confront the reality that even in 2020, we continue to marginalize people of color. In the architecture community, our involvement and activism is important in setting the stage for...