The project explores the historical and cultural significance of parachutes, from WWII utility to their transformation into garments and multimedia documentation under the label 'remove before flight'.
Sustainable building project in Post conflict Gulu Uganda
The project includes an annotated bibliography, video and photography as document to live performative events.
The 'urban reversedress' project examines how reconstructed garments can retain memories and histories, led by PI pk langshaw and Professor Sandra Weber.
In.site symposium development and implementation
Community Masks : From Studio to Frontline
Parachute un.folds : follow the threads
Sustainable building project in Post conflict Gulu Uganda
Parachute un.folds : follow the threads
d_verse: transitional algorhythms of gesture
Public Art as Social Intervention
Declarations of inter.depence and the immediacy of design
The project has been designed and structured as a creative outreach project between a collaborative team of Concordia University design researchers and Dans La Rue- an organization serving youth on the street. This year long project aims at creating a model for guiding self expression and digital literacy for youths at high risk. Teaching and learningis a mutual exchange between all participants as the learning of engaged design practice moves through the teaching of self expression and the acquisition of computer skills. Breaking through cultural and socio- economic divide.