4thSpace Concordia

Homeroom’s Black Perspectives Office Pod created this discussion centred around the recommendations and outcomes from the President's Anti-Black Racism Task Force.

Angélique Willkie, the chair of the task force, joins Vanessa Manroop for a conversation about how students specifically can become involved.

Perspectives on Art-Driven Entrepreneurship.

Business and Art may seem to occupy two opposing ends on a value spectrum. As requirements of funding and business entities increasingly require artists to prove the value, viability, and sustainability of their work, while industry requires innovation, it’s clear that overlap between the two fields is inevitable. What happens when entrepreneurship and creative practices converge? What can they learn from each other?

This panel discussion brings together practitioners and organizers from the non-profit, commercial, and community-based art worlds, with business development and financial experts tackling these questions, exposing the challenges, tensions, and opportunities that characterize our current climate while identifying innovative paths for the future of arts-driven entrepreneurship.

Held on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, this event was part of the Researcher-Practitioner Exchange Series, jointly hosted by the National Bank Initiative in Entrepreneurship & Family Business at John Molson School of Business and the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Do we need to separate games and gamification? In this podcast, listen to educators, game developers, and scholars as they tackle tough questions that come up in discussions about Educational games. Hosted by Public Scholar Scott DeJong as part of his Bad Game Arcade, a week-long arcade that explored how games can tackle disinformation.

This educational panel focused on how to improve the current youth care system. For now, once an individual hits the age of 18, they are no longer considered a minor, and consequently, they are being left on their own. This is the main cause of youth homelessness. Panelists discussed how youth can grow out of the system instead of being 'thrown' out of the system.

Professionals in the field discussed the current system and resources available to youth, ideas they believe may improve the current resource network, and ways any individual could help out with this issue. Ideas of supporting the cause will touch on fighting stigma to helping associations and individuals directly.

Large language models like ChatGPT are transforming the ways we communicate, learn, and interact with one another. In response, it's important to engage an interdisciplinary lens to examine the varied impacts of such technologies.

To this end, the Digital Intimacies, Gender and Sexuality Lab, in collaboration with the Applied AI Institute, organized a panel discussion moderated by Stefanie Duguay and Fenwick Mckelvey. Hear from experts about the pedagogical, ethical, social, and political implications of this technology.

Concordia Public Scholar Aristofanis Soulikias in discussion with Janet Blatter tackling the senses beyond vision in making animation, the sense of time in animation and the city, and sensing and communicating space and place via animation.

In an exciting world premiere, the eight finalists for the inaugural Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) Spoken Word Prize will offer short performances showcasing their talents. The prize is open to all forms of spoken word performance, from storytelling to sound poetry, hip hop, and dub.

Performances by Caitlin Murphy, Debbie Braide, Erín Moure, Johanne Pelletier, Liana Cusmano, Lucia De Luca, Raïssa Simone, Roen “Blu’Rva” Higgins and presented by the Quebec Writers’ Federation and Concordia's SpokenWeb project, the event will be hosted by poet and SpokenWeb director, Jason Camlot.

A panel with Algonquin-Anishnabe youth speaking on their perspectives of Indigenous governance. Originally recorded August 24, 2022.

In this panel discussion, Algonquin-Anishnabe guest speakers: Emilio Wawatie, Ryder Coté, Leona Commanda and Savanna McGregor discuss the various aspects intertwined within Indigenous governance, and their experiences engaging and navigating within this paradigm. Similar values and principles resonate with nations across Turtle Island ranging from: ceremony, culture, citizenship, the environment, sustainability, education and language.

Anishnabe constitutional values are directly linked to observations and education learned from nature and its seasonal changes. This conversation will focus on the Algonquin-Anishnabe youth perspectives of navigating these values within a modern context.

Presented by the Indigenous Stream of the Youth Network Chair.

How can we resist and organize against gentrification to preserve community and history?

This discussion, led by Public Scholar Mieko Tarrius creates a dialogue on the ways race informs gentrification and how communities get organized to fight back. With a wide range of panelists discussing their experience: Dr. Margaret Marietta Ramirez, Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University; Dr. Ted Rutland, Associate Professor at Concordia University; Simone Chen, Worker-member, Coopérative de Solidarité La Place Commune (Park Extension) & Member, Parc-Ex Anti-Eviction Mapping Project; Wawa Li, former Chinatown Working Group member, independent fashion designer and student at Concordia University; and Andy Hiep Vu, Urban planner, Montreal's Chinatown Roundtable.

Concordia University Press and 4th Space launch Engage in Public Scholarship! A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication with an event to celebrate Open Access Week.

Dr. Ketchum and Dr. Natalie Kouri-Towe engage in a conversation about finding better ways to share knowledge and connect with public audiences through acts of public scholarship – whether this is through social media and online content, or through in-person events and exhibitions. They will also discuss how to make public scholarship accessible and inclusive for as many groups and ability types as possible by encouraging scholars to design with disability in mind and to publish work in open access formats.