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Recording of a panel discussion from a Shaping Vancouver event (2018)
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2018-11-15
Am Johal interviews co-authors Matt Hern and Selena Couture.
Author: Hern, Matt, Author: Couture, Selena, Author: Johal, Am
Date created: 2019-07-08
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Hern, Matt
Date created: 2013-02-13
Can art challenge us to shift our economy to one that embraces sustainability, equality, and justice? Can we create local and global economies that are not only resilient and thriving but inclusive of everyone?The Artist Round Table (A.RT) on New Economies brought together a diverse group of panellists who have provocative ideas about art, economy, and transformative change. Set within a staged 1983 corporate boardroom, the A.RT kickoff with a presentation by artist Marilou Lemmens about her collaborative, multidisciplinary practice with Richard Ibghy. Lemmens presented artistic projects that explore the ways in which the economic system pervades nearly every facet of our daily lives. In response, panellists from various fields engaged in a lively discussion, digging deeply into the issues at the heart of the duo’s practice. The panelists draw on their experiences in the realms of art and culture, activism and citizenship, and sustainability and radical urbanism as they tell stories, debate ideas, and challenge each other and the audience with thought-provoking questions. The audience was invited into a discourse on the emergence of a new economy and how art can be a driving force for social change.FEATURING:Marilou Lemmens is a visual artist based in Durham-Sud and Montreal, Quebec where she works in collaboration with Richard Ibghy. Spanning various media, including video, performance, and installation, their work explores the material, affective, and sensory dimensions of experience that cannot be fully translated into signs or systems. For several years, they have examined the rationale upon which economic actions are described and represented, and how the logic of economy has come to infiltrate the most intimate aspects of life. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at La Biennale de Montréal (Montreal, 2014), 27th Images Festival (Toronto, 2014), La Filature, Scène Nationale (Mulhouse, France, 2013-14), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow, 2012), and the 10th Sharjah Biennial (Sharjah, UAE, 2011), among others.WITH PANELISTS:Community organizer, writer, and activist Matt Hern teaches at UBC and is known for his work in radical urbanism, community development, and alternative forms of education. He is founder of the Purple Thistle Centre, Car-Free Vancouver Day, and Groundswell: Grassroots Economic Alternatives.Cédric Jamet is a Project Manager at the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre and a Curator at Cities for People. His work explores the relationship between the urban imaginary, active citizenship, and the co-creation of sustainable cities.Artist and cultural producer Todd Lester has dedicated his career to supporting and enabling socially engaged artists around the world. He is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and founder of both freeDimensional and Lanchonete.org.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Lemmens, Marilou, Author: Hern, Matt, Author: Jamet, Cedric, Author: Lester, Todd
Date created: 2015-05-29
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Adderson, Caroline, Author: McDonald, Ian, Author: Harcourt, Mike, Author: Luxton, Donald, Author: Waddell, Ian, Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2015-05-27
PANELISTSBerdine Jonker | Berdine Jonker is Acting Manager, Heritage Programs and Services with the BC Heritage Branch, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. She has worked in the heritage conservation field since 1998, and currently leads the development of provincial heritage conservation policy for Crown Land management. Berdine has worked extensively in building local government capacity for heritage conservation planning and values based management of historic resources. She is a co-instructor of Heritage Resource Management in the University of Victoria’s Cultural Resource Management Program, and is currently a member of the Esquimalt Community Heritage Committee. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Art History), a Diploma in Cultural Resource Management, and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Victoria.Gerry McGeough | Gerry McGeough is the UBC University Architect and steward of the built environment and landscapes for UBC’s three campuses. His responsibilities include leading integrated planning and design of campus precincts, infrastructure, buildings and public realm. He is a Board Member of ICOMOS Canada, Chair of the Association of University Architect Sustainability Committee and member of the Advisory Committee on the Official Residences of Canada. He is also a member of the ICOMOS Canada’s Working Group – National Conversation on Cultural Landscapes. Prior to his start at UBC, Gerry had 21 years of professional architectural, planning and heritage practice as the Senior Heritage Planner for the City of Vancouver, adjunct professor with the University of Victoria Cultural Resource Management Program, and an architect specializing in infill and adaptive-reuse projects in Montreal. He has an Architectural degree from McGill University (1986) and a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University (1992).Henry Yu | Dr. Henry Yu is an Associate Professor of History, and the Principal of St. John’s College, UBC. He was the Project Lead for the id="mce_marker".17 million “Chinese Canadian Stories” public history and education project (2010-2012). Currently, Yu and his research team are completing a project on Chinese and First Nations heritage sites along the Fraser River corridor, and he serves as the Co-Chair for the Legacy Initiatives Advisory Council for the Province of British Columbia overseeing legacy projects following its historic apology in May 2014 for BC’s history of anti-Chinese legislation. Between 2009-2012, he was the Co-Chair of the City of Vancouver’s project, “Dialogues between First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities” and in 2012 received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his community service and leadership.Gordon Price | Gordon Price is the director of The City Program at Simon Fraser University. In 2002, he finished his sixth term as a city councillor in Vancouver, B.C. He blogs on urban issues with a focus on Vancouver at Price Tags. In July 2013, he received the President’s Award at the annual meeting of the Canadian Institute of Planners “in recognition of an outstanding lifetime contribution to education and professional planning in Canada.” MODERATORStewart Burgess | Stewart is an intern architect in Vancouver with Bruce Carscadden Architect. In just a decade of practice, BCA has designed and executed numerous building types with an emphasis on public and community recreation projects in the Lower Mainland and across Canada. Outside of this practice, Stewart is interested in public space activism, heritage and city building. He was part of the team that created Vancouver's first crowd-funded parklet on Commercial Drive and serves as a director of the Vancouver Public Space Network and Heritage Vancouver. Stewart is a graduate of the UBC Master in Architecture program.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2015-04-16
PANELISTSJulie Schueck | Julie Schueck has been the Heritage Planner for the City of New Westminster in British Columbia since 2007and has been a heritage consultant since 1991. She has a Bachelor of Arts (History) from the University of British Columbia, a Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies (Architecture) and a Masters of Environmental Design Studies (Heritage Conservation) from the Technical University of Nova Scotia (now Dalhousie University). Her experience includes municipal heritage planning, heritage policy work, heritage management and strategic plans, research, analyses, heritage registers, statements of significance, and heritage rehabilitation projects. She is a founding member of the BC Association of Heritage Professionals.Pete Fry | Pete Fry is a 25-year resident of Strathcona and the Downtown Eastside. A impassioned advocate for neighbourhood, livability, and heritage: Pete has worked and spoken on issues of preservation, affordability, community, and transportation. Pete formerly served as chair of the Strathcona Resident's Association, as a community representative on the City's controversial Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan, and helped to organize a multicultural festival celebrating Strathcona's storied diversity and history as part of the City's 125 Celebration. In 2014, Fry received over 46,000 votes as an underdog Green Party candidate for Vancouver City Council, running on issues of affordability, heritage and empowering communities as partners in urban planning. Pete and his family live in one of the city's oldest houses, a 110-year old Victorian in the heart of Strathcona.Clinton Cuddington | Clinton Cuddington, a graduate of the UBC School of Architecture, is the founding principal of Measured Architecture Inc., an award-winning full-service architectural firm specializing in high quality, high performance modern buildings. Measured Architecture creates buildings that are stimulating to occupy and are fundamental to their surroundings. From its inception in 2007, Measured has demonstrated an ability to craft considered, quality projects. In order to support the professional work, and put into practice what Measured preaches, Clinton remains involved with volunteer work, sitting on a number of Advisory Design Panels and other public bodies; he is active as an AIBC Professional Representative for the First Shaughnessy District Advisory Panel, a guest academic lecturer and Thesis Advisor/Guest Critic at the University of British Columbia.Helen Cain | Helen Cain is a professional planner specializing in policy, public engagement, new development and heritage. She is Vice-Chair of the Heritage Society of BC and a Senior Planner at the City of Victoria where her past responsibilities have included Heritage Conservation Areas in their award-winning Official Community Plan, 2012. She is the author of the policy paper “Heritage and Sustainability in Community Planning” on the environmental, economic, social and cultural value of preservation, and a Cascadia Green Building Council report connecting heritage and green building practices. She was consultant planner on City of Vancouver heritage projects in historic Japantown and Mount Pleasant, and is a past Heritage Vancouver Board member. Helen is passionate about place making through new design and retaining historic fabric. Alec Smith | Together with Nick Sully, Alec Smith founded SHAPE Architecture in 2007. SHAPE has undertaken numerous heritage revitalization projects in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighborhood in which revitalization of historic buildings is combined with modern laneway infill. This unromantic approach to urban density reflects a conviction that careful urban design and planning can greatly enrich existing historic districts. SHAPE’s work suggests modern and historic buildings can coexist and enrich one another by creating a considered ensemble in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Alec is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture teaching design and theory. In the summer of 2011 Alec served on the jury of the American Architecture Awards. MODERATORHelen Phillips | Helen is a consultant and researcher with a strong background in urban planning, heritage conservation and environmental sustainability. She trained as an urban planner in the UK, has qualifications in urban design and a PhD in heritage conservation. She previously worked as a researcher and lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, where she taught on urban planning, sustainable development and heritage conservation courses. She has published a variety of work on heritage and environmental sustainability. Her past consultancy projects have included working on a substantial heritage register update in Europe. Helen serves on the Board of Directors for Heritage Vancouver.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2015-02-27
Author: Yuen, Bill, Author: Ly, Channel, Author: Yu, Henry, Author: Borowski, Gregory , Author: Lee, Carol Anne , Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2016-10-05
Video recording talk and panel discussion of The Human Right to Housing and the Vancouver Situation.
Author: Kothari, Miloon, Author: Young, Margot, Author: Swanson, Jean, Author: Hern, Matt, Author: Seigl, sχ?emt?na:t, St’agid Jaad, Audrey, Author: Johal, Am
Date created: 2017-06-05
Recording of a panel discussion from a Shaping Vancouver event (2018)
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2018-10-11
Audio recording of Shaping Vancouver presentation (2018)
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2018-05-10
Panelists:Mary Clare Zak, Managing Director, Social Policy & Project Division, City of VancouverMatt Hern, instructor in SFU Urban Studies and author of Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, Co-founder/Director of 2+10 IndustriesPaul Taylor, Executive Director of Gordon Neighborhood House in the West End, and formerly Executive Director of the DTES Neighborhood HouseViveca Ellis, Single Mothers AllianceMargot Young, law professor at UBC Bill Beauregarde, Community Coordinator, Aboriginal Front Door Society Moderated by Charlie Smith, editor of the Georgia Straight.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Zak, Mary Clare, Author: Hern, Matt, Author: Taylor, Paul, Author: Ellis, Viveca, Author: Young, Margot, Author: Beauregarde, Bill
Date created: 2015-11-02
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Hern, Matt, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Coulthard, Glen , Author: Bates, Lisa , Author: Al-Zobaidi, Sobhi , Author: Anthony, Josiane
Date created: 2016-10-27