DoUC employee Brendan Cormier is at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, on a two-week study residency to plunder their extensive and excellent archive. Research work will focus on two separate projects – rummaging for past speculative works of urban design that focus on the Canadian urban landscape for a special side project called CAUSE (Canadian Archive for Urban Speculation and Enquiry) – as well as continued research work for DoUC’s contribution to the Migrating Landscapes Show at the 2012 Venice Biennale.
Preliminary discoveries include: Wild factory development speculation in Saskatoon, an alternate City Beautiful in Calgary, the sheer logistical feat of the Dominion Land Survey, crumbling bridges, uncontrollable floods, and Tolstoy’s relations with the Doukhobors. Look to the CAUSE website shortly for new additions, as well as the Migrating Landscapes shows in Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Halifax, Toronto and Montreal.
A big thanks to the CCA for offering this opportunity.
Posted on November 22, 2011 by christopherpandolfi
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