Elsa Lam, Canadian Architect editor and Waterloo Architecture graduate, reached out to Jaliya Fonseka, a recent graduate and adjunct faculty member of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, and Anne Bordeleau, as Chair of the Canadian Council of University Schools of Architecture, to share their perspectives on equity in architectural education and beyond.
WA Professor Philip Beesley participated in a panel at a DigitalFUTURES Young talk, moderating and responding to Interactive Architecture research from five design teams. Philip was joined by moderators Virginia Melnyk and Gustavo Rincon, with presentations by Roshni Gera + Misbah Shehreen Baig + Yunzhu Duan + Elisavet Konstantinidou, Mümün Keser, Mona Ghandi, Zoe Diakak + Marina Mersiadou, and Irem Bugdayci.
We would like to extend warmest congratulations to Robert Jan van Pelt, who has received the Engineering Research Excellence Award in the Professor category.
Philip Beesley participated in a panel and Digital Futures talk entitled 'Meander: Precarious Action within Aether.' Philip is joined by Behnaz Farahi, Ruairi Glynn and Neil Leach; are all LASG contributors.
Congratulations to Brenda Reid whose collaborative art project, From Behind the Mask received recognition on CTV News this week.
From Behind the Mask is a community quilt of COVID-19 stories. Local community members are able to pick up a kit from a number of nearby businesses and use the materials to express their covid-19 experiences through words and fabric. The kit is then mailed back to be included in a large community covid-19 quilt.
The book is authored by LASG partner CITA, the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and published by Waterloo Architecture's Riverside Architectural Press.
In the face of climate change, historic communities are becoming more vulnerable to increasingly frequent storm and flood events. Adapting to changing water levels requires forward-looking strategies to limit disastrous impacts on the well-being and cultural heritage of these communities.
