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Marco Chitti
In May 2016, Marco Chitti -- PhD student affiliated to the CRC in Sustainable Urbanization in the Global South -- was awarded the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for his doctoral project titled "Entre experts locaux et internationaux : les agents de la diffusion des modèles d’urbanisme dans les pays en développement. Le cas des projets de coopération technique en Palestine."
Danielle Labbé and Blaise Gascon Bordeleau interviewed by ForUM about moto-taxis and intermodality in Hanoi. Read more.
Stephanie Geertman (former member of the Hanoi Youth and Public Space research team) publishes a blog in the Asia-Pacific Memo series titled "Skateboarder Traceurs and Changes in Urban Space and Social Practices in Hanoi". It is available here. This is an outcome of a SSHRC-funded project which can be explored here.
Skateboarding on the base of Lenin's statue at Lenin Square. Source: Geertman, June 2015
The DIDA Department of Architecture of the University of Florence and the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Montreal - with the participation of Giovanni De Paoli, Gonzalo Lizarralde, Danielle Labbé, Faten Kikano, Anne-Marie Petter - propose an International workshop inviting students, professors and researchers to reflect on the theme of “cities for refugees and migrants”. It will address the issue of territories’ and cities’ resilience to social changes, political changes and environmental changes: what are the new issues challenging the city today? Who will live in the city? How a "public city" could tackle cohesion in changes and migration? What are the possible forms of cohabitation?
The workshop will be held in Florence from 12 to 19 September.
See details and programmin
Title: Repenser la production des espaces publics contemporains au Vietnam
Réflexions à partir de Ho Chi Minh Ville by Marie Gibert, maître de conférences in Geography -- Université Paris Diderot, Département d’études de l’Asie Orientale (UFR LCAO).
When: Monday Sept 19th 2016, from 5-7 pm
Where: Room 180, ground floor, Pavillon 3744 Jean-Brillant, Université de Montréal
Organized by: Centre d'étude de l'Asie de l'Est, Research Group ECTASE & the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Urbanization in the Global South
Two students affiliated with the REINVENTERRA network collaborated with two Philippino students to produce a documentary on periurban issues in Cebu (Visayas region, Philippines). Their documentary was screened for the first time this week at UP-Diliman (Manille). See the announcement here.
Since the destruction caused by the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Canaan has evolved as a new urban slum in the northern periphery of the capital. This previously rural sector is now home to thousands of families living with insufficient infrastructure and public services. The simulation is based on a 3D model of the settlement, GIS and demographic databases. It recreates the past six years of informal urban growth and simulates two future scenarios: a positive scenario in which the settlement improves and vulnerabilities are reduced (according to priorities and needs expressed by local citizens and organizations); and a negative scenario in which additional disasters occur, and vulnerabilities increase. The simulation aims at creating awareness about the key issues to be considered in planning, prevention and policy. It also helps understanding the interaction between factors of vulnerability.
Produced by the Canadian Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Reconstruction Research Alliance (Œuvre durable) and Université de Montréal with the support of the Advanced Disaster, Emergency and Rapid Response Simulation Project funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Additional funding from: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds de recherche du Québec – société et culture.
Since the destruction caused by the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Canaan has evolved as a new urban slum in the northern periphery of the capital. This previously rural sector is now home to thousands of families living with insufficient infrastructure and public services.
In July 2016, the English-language magazine The Word published a special issue exploring Vietnam's suburbia. Danielle Labbé was interviewed for two pieces including a stunning photo-reportage by photographer Julie Vola on Hanoi's "ghost towns" aptly titled "Where the streets have no name".
The suburban landscape of Hanoi. Photo: Julie Vola
Three masters' student from the School of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture at the UdeM are spending the summer of 2016 in Hanoi researching an emerging do-it-yourself urbanism organization called Think Playground. As part of this very hands-on research project, they have been busy helping Think Playground volunteer design and transform a derelict public toilet site into a pocket playground for kids in one of the city's central districts.
Jules Laurent-Allard and Maxime Bouthagou-Courtemanche receive instructions from Think Playground volonteer.
On June 22, 2016, Danielle Labbé was interviewed by the Vietnamese television on the occasion of the exhibition of works of graduates of the first promotion of students of architecture in the Francophone sector of the National University Superior of Civil Engineering in Hanoi.
On June 19th 2016, UdeM's masters student in urban planning was interviewed by VTV (Vietnam's national television) on the Do-it-yourself initiative "Think Playground" in Hanoi which he studies with two other student-members of the CRC in Sustainable Urbanization in the Global South (Jules Laurent-Allard and Gabriel Larue). The clip of his interview is here (minute 17).
Olivier Jacques, PhD candidate in architecture (McGill University) and PhD fellow at the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Urbanization in the Global South is one of the 25 finalists of the SSHRC’s annual Storytellers contest challenging postsecondary students to show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future for the better. Congratulations Olivier !
See Olivier's video submission here.
