The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) has announced its 2024 program, which includes programming, research, film, publication, and exhibition projects in Montréal and beyond, as well as online.
The program aims to promote conversations around questions that confront architecture in the present day.
“Not only does building involve an evolving set of professional ethics and liabilities, but it also demands compliance with a complex body of codes, by-laws, and legislations. The field of architecture occupies an increasingly tight space of negotiation amid diverse and complex legal interests, with many practitioners working to reshape the spatial policies that advance supportive housing and environmental and social justice,” reads a release from the CCA.
Here are a few items included in their 2024 program.
In April, the CCA’s 2022–2023 emerging curator Clarissa Lim Kye Lee will curate a series of workshops, Making Mamak, in Kuala Lumpur. According to the CCA, she will consider the relationships between Malaysian art collectives to their urban environments “as a model for reinscribing a concern for the social in contemporary art and architecture.” The toolkit will be activated in Montréal at the CCA in June 2024.
The CCA will also move forward with the CCA c/o Dakar program curated by Nzinga B. Mboup. This program will produce a series of public programs and research projects that will examine how “the collective appropriation of new forms of building and practice respond to contemporary interests and developments of Senegalese and African societies.”
Additionally, the CCA is working on the second iteration of the Find and Tell Elsewhere program, which they began with the Abdel Moneim Mustafa archive in Khartoum. In collaboration with Warebi Gabriel Brisibe, as well as his colleagues and students at the Department of Architecture, Rivers State University of Science and Technology in Lagos, the CCA began to digitize and describe the material of post-independence Nigerian architects such as Michael Olutusen Onafowokan. According to the CCA, this project was started to test new modes of providing access to resources and supporting research, to evaluate how the management and use of archival records can be dissociated from their physical ownership, and to nurture connections between their Collection, research programs, and external material.
For the full list of programs, click here.