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Javier Campos earned his Architecture Degree from the University of British Columbia after having completed an undergraduate degree in Art History. Previously he was at Acton Ostry Architects where, as lead designer, his projects were widely published and garnered numerous awards — including Canadian Architect and Lieutenant Governor Medals in Architecture. His work adopted a green agenda early and has included off the grid projects since 2001. He became LEED certified in 2004. Javier is also involved in Public Art and has won several competitions with Artist Elspeth Pratt in Vancouver. Javier served on the board of the Contemporary Art Gallery for six years and as well being the current president of the Heritage Vancouver Society, where he established an award winning outreach series on issues around Heritage.Resources:— Heritage Vancouver: http://heritagevancouver.org/— Shaping Vancouver series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClA0Wn2xodnRMrdH3shZSwQ— Campos Studio: https://www.campos.studio/— Sen̓áḵw: https://senakw.com/— Heritage Action Plan: https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/heritage-action-plan-emerging-directions-june-2017-open-house-information-displays.pdf
Author: Javier Campos, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-07-06
Author: Sacco, Joe , Author: Johal, Am, Author: Smith, Paige, Author: Roach, Melissa, Author: Feng, Kathy, Author: Pinillos, Fiorella
Date created: 2020-08-27
Author and educator David Chang of SFU's Faculty of Education joins Am Johal for a conversation about what it means to live an ethical life during the Anthropocene — an epoch marked by the monumental environmental impact of human activity. David is co-editor of a recently published collection of scholarly and creative essays, A Book of Ecological Virtues: Living Well in the Anthropocene.He and Am discuss themes in Ecological Virtues, including Aristotle's notions of virtue ethics, and the grounding of virtue ethics in other thought traditions. They also speak about David's colleagues' contributions to the book that deal with death literacy and the process of forging soulful connection with places through poetry.Resources:— A Book of Ecological Virtues: Living Well in the Anthropocene (University of Regina Press, 2020): https://uofrpress.ca/Books/A/A-Book-of-Ecological-Virtues—"What Are Your 'Ecological Virtues'?" - review from The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2020/09/22/What-Are-Your-Ecological-Virtues/
Author: David Chang, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Fiorella Pinillos, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2021-03-02
Below the Radar has partnered with the Or Galley to bring you recordings of the Gas Imaginary Conversations series. In this first of two talks, Rachel O'Reilly is in conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva. This event was presented by the Or Gallery and recorded virtually on Nov. 26, 2020.Rachel O'Reilly and Denise Ferreira da Silva have had long-standing exchanges on the many concepts and references that run through the Gas Imaginary project. In this conversation, they address the development of The Gas Imaginary and the language of capitalization in regards to land, settler conceptualism, and the violent movement of land to forms of property and sites of speculation-based capital.About The Gas Imaginary:A multi-disciplinary project using poetry, collaborative drawings, installation, moving images, and lectures to unpack the broader significance of 'settler conceptualism', the racial logic of the property form and fossil fuel-based labour politics as capital reaches the limits of land use. In ongoing dialogue with elders of Gooreng Gooreng country and settler women activists, where fracking was approved for mass installation in 'Australia', new elements of this work address the threatened destruction to 50% of the Northern Territory. — The Gas Imaginary Project page: https://thegasimaginary.orgalleryprojects.org/ — Or Gallery Exhibition page: http://www.orgallery.org/past/814/the-gas-imaginary— Rachel O'Reilly: www.rachel-oreilly.net — Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva: https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/person/denise-ferreira-da-silva/ Watch the video recording of this conversation here (closed captioning included in video): https://thegasimaginary.orgalleryprojects.org/talks/
Author: Denise Ferreira da Silva, Author: Rachel O'Reilly, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Fiorella Pinillos, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2021-03-11
Javier Campos earned his Architecture Degree from the University of British Columbia after having completed an undergraduate degree in Art History. Previously he was at Acton Ostry Architects where, as lead designer, his projects were widely published and garnered numerous awards — including Canadian Architect and Lieutenant Governor Medals in Architecture. His work adopted a green agenda early and has included off the grid projects since 2001. He became LEED certified in 2004. Javier is also involved in Public Art and has won several competitions with Artist Elspeth Pratt in Vancouver. Javier served on the board of the Contemporary Art Gallery for six years and as well being the current president of the Heritage Vancouver Society, where he established an award winning outreach series on issues around Heritage.Resources: — Heritage Vancouver: http://heritagevancouver.org/— Shaping Vancouver series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClA0Wn2xodnRMrdH3shZSwQ— Campos Studio: https://www.campos.studio/ — Sen̓áḵw: https://senakw.com/ — Heritage Action Plan: https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/heritage-action-plan-emerging-directions-june-2017-open-house-information-displays.pdf
Author: Javier Campos, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-07-06