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Call for Papers: SSAC 2024: Forms of Repair: Care, Restoration, and Redress in the Built Environment

The Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada is now accepting paper proposals for its 49th annual conference on the theme: Forms of Repair: Care, Restoration, and Redress in the Built Environment.

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Winnipeg , Canada

Email: ssac.2024.seac@gmail.com

Website: https://canada-architecture.org/ssac-2024-call-for-papers/

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Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada
49th Annual Conference
Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba
Winnipeg Architecture Foundation/Manitoba Association of Architects
Winnipeg, Manitoba
May 22–25, 2024

The Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada is now accepting paper proposals for its 49th annual conference on the theme: Forms of Repair: Care, Restoration, and Redress in the Built Environment. The conference will open with a Wednesday evening reception, paper sessions on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and a series of tours, and evening events.

We invite researchers, professionals, and students from any discipline whose work relates to the built environment in Canada to submit an abstract relating to one of the following sessions. For session descriptions, please refer to the Call for Papers.

  1. Architectural Archives and the Built Environment
  2. Architecture as Infrastructure: Hacking colonial Architecture in Canada
  3. Architecture’s social narratives
  4. Canadian Architecture in the Classroom
  5. Re-Inhabiting the Public Office: Singularity vs. Community
  6. Reclamation and Representation of Indigenous Histories in Urbanism
  7. Redefining Limits and Limitations: Exploring Accessibility in Canadian Architecture
  8. Redress. Memorials. Spatial Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA People
  9. Rethinking our places of worship and their future
  10. The Architecture Work of Sustenance: Recognizing Cleaning, Maintenance, and Upkeep
  11. Cultural Planning and Placemaking in Cultural Districts in Canada
  12. Theory in Practice: Building Deconstruction and Reuse in Canada
  13. Time for Interiors: Current Work on the Most Mutable of Spaces
  14. Undergraduate Research Session – Lightning Talks
  15. Current Research

Please email your submission to ssac.2024.seac@gmail.com no later than Friday, March 8, 2024, and include: an abstract of no more that 300 words, a CV or biography, and note which session your proposal addresses.

Paper proposals will be assessed by a scientific committee including session chairs and members of the Society. Depending on available funds, financial support for the travel expenses of students may be provided following the conference. The SSAC supports inclusive dialogue and encourages perspectives illuminating the influence and experience of gendered and sexually diverse, BIPOC, and disabled communities.

The 2024 Conference will take place on Treaty One Territory, on the original lands of Anishinaabeg, Ininew, Anisininew, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. Winnipeg’s water is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.