DodoLab in Charlottetown - August 2009
Friday, August 7th, 2009
DodoLab continues in Charlottetown, commissioned by the Confederation Centre. This iteration will include a full week of creative field research and three days of public activity involving a diverse team of students and professionals. Inspired by the Charlottetown’s Experimental Farm, this DodoLab has been designed to engage with a variety of issues including evolving ideas about farming and agriculture, public and common space, guerrilla and urban gardening and concepts of what is “green,” sustainable and “natural”. DodoLab will engage the public in playful creative exercises in order to investigate, document, and share ideas inspired by a particular local situation that has deep relevance nationally and internationally. Findings from this community-based project will be published on line and presented in the fall. DodoLab is an ongoign collaboration of RENDER and the Musagetes Foundation.
DodoLab Charlottetown will include the following core group:
Andrew Hunter and Barbara Hobot of RENDER, University of Waterloo www.render.uwaterloo.ca
Alice Angus and Giles Lane of Proboscis, London, UK www.proboscis.org.uk
Lisa Hirmer, Masters in Architecture, University of Waterloo
Laura Knapp, Masters in Architecture, University of Waterloo
The DodoLab team will be joined by students working with Dr. Shauna McCabe (Canada Research Chair in Critical Theory in the Interpretation of Culture and Director of CHARTS, the Centre for Humanities and Arts Research in Transdisciplinary Space, Mount Allison University) and staff from the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. DodoLab Charlottetown will also include contributions from Justin Langlois of www.brokencitylab.org.
Schedule
The DodoLab team will be in Charlottetown from August 24-30 and will run public events from a “base-camp” at Confederation Square on August 27th and 28th, and at the Farmer’s Market on Saturday August 29th.
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