UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
NOW - Ongoing
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Parkdale Food Centre and the Urban Imaginaries Lab are working together to reimagine the Mino’Wessini Grocery Program. You can contribute to a growing collection of stories highlighting the power of food to connect us all.
Ongoing in the Hintonburg Neighbourhood - Morning Owl, Maker House, Aurelis Fine Oils, Thyme and Again, Kayla’s Dog Grooming, Mino’Weesini
PAST EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 21ST, OCTOBER 5TH, 2024
Parkdale Food Centre
Parkdale Food Centre
A series of events to introduce the project.
September 21st:
October 5th:
MAY 4TH, 2024
Arlington Art Market
Arlington Art Market Blooming Melodies
The event featured local artisans, performance artists, and vendors from across the Ottawa region. For the Art Market, the Urban Imaginaries Ottawa Project designed an activity called 'Blooming Melodies’ which sought to engage the community in conversations regarding their city and what it evokes in them.
MARCH 12TH, 2024
Polytechnic Institute of Milan
MAY 10TH, 2024
Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre
Creative Continuum Conference
The theme of the 2024 conference was ‘GARDENING’, chosen due to its symbolic and literal meanings, offering a space for conversations where participants are invited to view the local arts community as more than an ecosystem and rather as a ‘garden requiring cooperation, cultivation, and intentional care’.
DECEMBER 5TH, 2024
Parkdale Food Centre
Mapping resources together
The first workshop to shape the new vision for Mino’Weesini.
Where: Mino’Weesini Grocery Program, 5 Hamilton Ave N, Ottawa
When: 5 - 8 PM
Expert Design Talks: What does power have to do with co-design?
Chiara Del Gaudio is a designer, researcher and Associate Professor at Carleton University's School of Industrial Design (Canada). She has been part of the Participatory Design Community since 2014, having edited special issues on Participatory Design and organized the Participatory Design Conference in 2020. Chiara's writing has been published in CoDesign, The International Journal of Design, and Urban Design International, among other edited collections.
What does power have to do with co-design? The majority of us might answer this question by referring to the democratising qualities of the co-design process. In the end, co-design is known for being an approach that enables wider participation in design choices. This lecture aims to unsettle this understanding by looking at indirect, invisible and hidden manifestations of power in co-design processes. We will touch on topics such as micro-dynamics and micropolitics, hidden agendas, everyday violence, fear and desire, and conditioned participation.
2023
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APRIL 10TH, 2023
Rideau Community Hub
The event is a result of a collaboration between prof. Chiara Del Gaudio (Urban Imaginaries Lab, School of Industrial Design, Carleton University), some of her 3rd and 4th year students and the Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre.
It consisted of an exhibition plus a presentation of the studio works on the topic 'Designing for Food Security and Wellbeing at Rideau Community Hub' and of an exhibition of the seminar works on the topic 'Reimagining the Rideau Community Hub'.
Designing for and at Rideau Community Hub: Showcase and Exhibitions
APRIL 1ST, 2023
Carleton University
Urban Imaginaries, in partnership with Project Project Collective, did a half-day design fiction workshop. By the end of our time together, we built together the foundations of an artifact on the topic of financialization of housing, using design fiction as a technique.
Design Fiction Workshop
MARCH 19TH, 2023
464 Metcalfe Street
Counter-maps: Showcase, Interaction and Discussion
The event, co-organized by Chiara Del Gaudio, and Dan Monafu, had students from Chiara’s Design Anthropology course showcasing their work on the topic ‘financialization of housing’. Thank you to all who participate in the event by engaging with the students and their work and taking part in collective discussions.
FEBRUARY 13TH, 2023
Carleton University
Design Anthropology 2023
The Master course IDES5500 ‘Design Anthropology’, designed and taught by Dr. Chiara Del Gaudio at the School of Industrial Design (Carleton University) in the Winter term of 2023 asked students to explore what Design Anthropology is and how to practice it by engaging with the concept of Urban Imaginaries
FEBRUARY 9TH, 2023
Politecnico di Milano
Tackling oppression by embracing transgression
A series of public lectures were presented in a Ph.D. course at Politecnico di Milano on the topic: Fighting Discriminations: Power, Unbalance, Intersectional Dominant-Logic in New Technologies Evolution. The lectures provided theoretical and conceptual tools (from law, design, and sociology) to prevent and challenge dysfunctional situations and stimulate the development of proposals aimed at not harming categories usually at risk of fragility because of age, disability, gender, religion, ethnicity in the development of new technologies.
2022
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DECEMBER 9TH, 2022
Carleton University
Yearly, the School of Industrial Design provides 4th-year design students with the opportunity of learning about and critically reflecting on key contemporary industrial design issues and topics. A final seminar event was held at the Korean Culture Centre Canada where students shared and presented their work publicly.
Section A, led by Chiara, explored the political role of design; that is, of design’s transformative potential for society and of the embedded values that it reproduces. The students presented part of their work with the Rideau Community Hub where they designed scenarios to envision possible futures of what the hub could be and become for the local community.
Between Theory & Practice - 4th year seminar course
OCTOBER 17 - 20TH, 2022
Shaw Centre
International Cooperation Futures Festival
The Urban Imaginaries Ottawa project was invited to be a part of the International Cooperation Futures Festival, hosted by Cooperation Canada. The futures festival opened space to ‘Reconnect, Unlearn, Envision and Engage for a Fairer, Safer and More Sustainable World’. For the festival, the Urban Imaginaries Ottawa Project designed two activities: 'The cities we live in’ and 'Imaginaries of desired cities'. Informal conversations with participants of the festival also took place to reflect on the activities and answers.