4thSpace Concordia

"Try to centre it more in the different rhythmic and tidalectic relations that exist across the archipelago"

Seascape Poetics was curated by Bettina Pérez Martínez, with assistance from Simone Cambridge. This digital-only exhibition examines the complexity of Caribbean relationships to water.

The Beyond Museum Walls Curatorial Residency program is a student and recent graduate-led initiative developed at the Curating and Public Scholarship Lab (CaPSL) at Concordia University. We invited program coordinator Alex Robichaud, to tell us more about CaPSL's residency program and to speak with Bettina and Simone about the process of developing Seascape Poetics.

For this week of March 2021, 4thSpace worked with the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability to host a full week of online panels and workshops on the environmental crisis and the climate emergency.

Coordinator for this week-long session, Rebecca Tittler hosts this conversation with Geography professor and Concordia Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability, Damon Matthews and Assistant Professor in Managment Shannon Lloyd to discuss their collaborative work and the role interdisciplinarity plays in the research of climate change.

"There is something in knowing what Is likely to be resonant, but there is also something in seeing it in action.."

In second episode of our series with Concordia's Black Perspectives Office, the BPO’s coordinator, Annick Maugile Flavien sits down with with Temi Akin-Aina, the Associate Director of Alumni Relations.

Listen in for an in-depth discussion around the themes that led Temi to her work, the creation of the Black Alumni Network and Council, the importance of Black Alumni engagement, and the role Alumni play in supporting students and the university.

Annick Maugile Flavien is a Black community advocate, a Black scholar, the founding coordinator of the Black Perspectives Office (BPO), and a Co-chair on the President's Task Force on Anti-Black Racism at Concordia University. She is a three-time graduate of Concordia and has been working on campus for the last ten years where she had the opportunity to participate in and support grassroots EDI and anti-racist initiatives across campus. She now offers anti-discriminatory consultations, workshops and trainings, and is developing trainings specifically for anti-Black racism at Concordia University. In her creative and academic research, Annick roots herself in communications, ageing studies, migration and geography in order to explore the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and identity for Black communities in Canada with the goal of addressing Black community isolation in Canada and fostering connections across Black Canadian communities.

Temilade (Temi) Akin-Aina is the Associate Director of Alumni Relations at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, a position she has held since 2015. With more than a decade of practice in higher education alumni relations, Temi’s experience includes alumni program strategy and community development, market research, virtual programming and change management. At Concordia, Temi has worked with student groups and student leaders, alumni volunteers and campus partners to advocate for an improved student experience. She has also spearheaded and refined engagement with key constituent groups including Women, Queer alumni, Black alumni and Asian alumni, and researched and launched institutionally relevant portfolios such as Alumni Career Services.

The Black Perspectives Live podcast series is a collaboration between Concordia’s Black Perspectives Office (BPO) and 4th Space. In the last year we have seen a true mobilization and congregation around Black advocacy, knowledge exchange, and collaboration at Concordia and we want continue to foster this collective engagement. With this podcast series the BPO and 4th Space will be highlighting and offering entry points to the impactful voices and knowledges from members of the Black communities across Concordia University and beyond.

"When we stop trusting institutions, people start to flock to alternative pathways like the blockchain.."

Erica Pimentel speaks with Pierre-Yann Dolbec on how our idea of work is being transformed. From the gig economy to blockchain to a global pandemic - how does this impact how we connect with our work?

Erica Pimentel is a Concordia Public Scholar, a CPA and a doctoral candidate in Accountancy at the John Molson School of Business. Pierre-Yann Dolbec is crrently the Concordia Research Chair in Complexity and Markets.

Recorded as part of 4thSpace live virtual event in November 2020

"I like to think of myself as disposable and if I don't - I'm not going to put in place structures that last.."

The Black Perspectives Office (BPO) is a newly launched area of leadership at Concordia that provides resources, supports, connects and advocates for Black perspectives, initiatives and scholarship at Concordia University.

In this special episode, the first of a series of conversations entitled *Black Perspectives - Live at Concordia* join the BPO’s founding coordinator, Annick Maugile Flavien, as she enters in conversation with multimedia freelance journalist, Josie Fomé, to discuss the legacy that brought forth the BPO, its commitment to supporting the community and connecting networks, and the collaborative initiatives across campus that are working towards addressing anti-Black systemic racism at Concordia University and beyond.

"Display is a twenty-first century way of being - that we have to get in touch with"

Maria Carolina Cambre is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education. Her work considers the digital politics of communication, the representation debate, critical policy analysis & critical visual sociology.

In this episode, she sits down with Prem Sooriyakumar, knowledge broker for the Office of Research to discuss her process and current research into the politics of the 'selfie'.

"Journalists have been trained to use an arms-length reporting method. It became clear that was not going to be the best way."

Aphrodite Salas is an Assistant Professor, in the department of Journalism. Her research engages with visual journalism, mobile journalism and experiential teaching and learning. With CTV Montreal, Aphrodite worked as a video journalist, assignment editor and line-up editor.

In this episode, she sits down with knowledge broker Prem Sooriyakumar to find out more about her process and current work to collaboratively document and share stories of Indigenous leadership and climate action.

"To understand how these layers of language each represent a moment of history.."

In this episode, Johanne Sloan sits down with Sherry Simon to discuss her work.

Sherry Simon is a Professor in the Department of French Studies at Concordia University. She has also held the position of Canada Research Chair in Translation and Cultural History (York University, 2005) and served as Director of Concordia’s interdisciplinary PhD in Humanities Program. An internationally renowned scholar, Professor Simon has published extensively on subjects related to Translation Studies, literary translation, and gender in translation, among others.

Johanne Sloan has a BFA from Concordia University, an MA from the Université de Montréal, and a PhD in the History and Theory of Art from the University of Kent, England (1998). Dr. Sloan is interested in broader categories of visual culture and the urban environment, and these issues converged in the multi-authored book of essays about the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967.