Programming

This urban walk takes as its working canvas the concept of de-programming: an idea at first associated, in its more pejorative dimension, with a destructuring felt for some years in this sometimes "vampirized" sector that includes Concordia University.

This is an afternoon "open forum" that aims to share practices and instill collaborations between our ways of fighting and practicing the city.

Series of actions realised in various dis/location sites.

This book continues the reflection initiated by the members and collaborators of DARE-DARE with the first part of Dis/location: urban articulation project, which led the center to relocate its offices in 2004 in a temporary shelter at Square Viger until in 2006.

The intervention aims to relate the exterior of the building to the Mission's premises. With the help of the latter, and through the use of various materials, the intervention will transform, even envelop, the exterior façade of the building, while proposing a new reading of the interior of the premises.

An evening of imaginations/projects/visions for Rosemont viaduct and environs.

The project consists of painting the lids of the sewers situated in the neighborhoods surrounding the park with no name where DARE-DARE took up residence in July 2006.

SPURSE is a hybrid collective with international ramifications that touches on art and architecture. SPURSE is interested in the reconstruction of the common places, by an examination of the urbanity with a psycho-geographical approach.

DARE-DARE intends to continue its reflection and experience during the meetings Around the Agora, where artists, sociologists, architects and activists will present approaches, visions, modes of intervention aimed at rethinking the conceptualization, planning, development and organization of the urban landscape.

The participants in this edition, whose theme is Accident: Randall Anderson, Catherine Carmichael, Philippe Hugues, Harold Klunder, Patric Lacasse, Caroline Lavoie, Douglas Scholes and Myriam Yates.

Inspired by an outdoor parking lot in the Lower Town, Stéphanie Pelletier decided to intervene there. A mound of dirty snow occupied a parking space and offered itself as exploitable material.

During heat waves, the Hot Spots project focuses on the sphere of leisure and the transformations that its practice causes on urban space and social interactions.

Borders divide us. Borders bring us closer. Borders belong to us. They are geographical, cartographic, political, linguistic, ethnic, social, economic, cultural... They are infinite. But they are not indefinite.

Nomadic artist Nicolas Chiffe (Brighton, England) studies the architecture and history of major North American cities from which he creates "dreamlike architectural hypotheses".

In this outdoor intervention, the room evoked by the title is a shed in a Montreal alley to which the artist had grafted video monitors.

Yves Gendreau installed a construction sign with no inscription on a vacant lot in Montreal's central business district.