McGill Graduate Architecture Students' Association

Tonight! Open to all McGill Architecture Students!

Opening today!

“Rerooting the Commons: Palestine’s Historic Souq’s,” a photographic exhibition, hosted by Race+Space and co-sponsored by the McGill Refugee Research Group. The exhibition explores the different dimensions of daily life in Palestine’s historic souqs in Jerusalem, Nazareth, Hebron, Acre, Gaza, Nablus, and Jaffa.

..and tomorrow, a keynote Lecture + discussion with Souq Stories Curators at 6pm, in room G-10 of the Macdonald-Harrington Building!

https://www.mcgill.ca/lin-centre/channels/event/rgdst-souq-stories-reclaiming-commons-337855

Online screening and discussion coming up on February 3rd!

https://fb.me/e/1DECrakxq

Shelter without Shelter: Online screening + discussion with directors Tom Scott-Smith and Mark Breeze

Thursday, February 3, 4 - 5:30pm

Co-Sponsored by McGill Refugee Research Group and ISID
Shelter Without Shelter explores the hopes and challenges involved in providing temporary housing for refugees. Filmed over three years since 2015, this six-part documentary investigates how forced migrants from Syria were sheltered across Europe and the Middle East, ending up in mega-camps, city squats, occupied airports, illegal settlements, requisitioned buildings, flat-pack structures, and enormous architect-designed reception centres. Containing perspectives from the humanitarians who created these shelters as well as the critics who campaigned against them, the documentary reveals the complex dilemmas involved in attempts to house refugees in emergency conditions. Based on research at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, Shelter Without Shelter offers new insights into a universal human experience. We all need shelter, but what is it?

TO ATTEND:
1) Register at https://bit.ly/mrrgshelter for free to access the full documentary.
2) Join us on Feb 3rd at 4:00 PM (EST) for a screening of selected clips and a live discussion with the directors Mark E. Breeze and Tom Scott-Smith.

DIRECTOR BIOS:

Mark E Breeze is a licensed architect and an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker who combines interdisciplinary practice, research (University of Cambridge Sustainable Shelter Group), teaching (Architectural Association), and environmental design advocacy (American Institute of Architects' UK Sustainability Chair). His current work explores the theories, practices, and forms of human sheltering.

Tom Scott-Smith is Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford. He specialises in the ethnographic and historical study of humanitarian relief, with a focus on nutrition and shelter. His book, On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief, is published by Cornell University Press.

Interesting public talk coming up on February 3rd! RGDST public talk with Esra Akcan on Human Rights, Transitional Justice and Architecture.

https://www.mcgill.ca/mssi/channels/event/rgdst-public-talk-esra-akcan-human-rights-transitional-justice-and-architecture-336087

February 3, 2022
Noon-1:30 PM EST

To join please sign up at [email protected] by February 2.
Free and open to the public

Esra Akcan is Michael McCarthy Professor in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. Her research on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism foregrounds the intertwined histories of Europe and West Asia, and offers new ways to understand architecture’s role in global, social and environmental justice. Akcan received awards and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, Graham Foundation (3 times grantee), American Academy in Berlin, UIC, Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, Clark Institute, Getty Research Institute, Canadian Center for Architecture (2 times scholar), CAA, Mellon Foundation, DAAD and KRESS/ARIT. She is the author of Landfill Istanbul; Architecture in Translation; Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (with S. Bozdoğan) and Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg. Her upcoming books are Building in Exile, Abolish Human Bans and Right to Heal.

Hello everyone!

To kick off the near year, GASA's proposing an online Trivia Night this Friday, (Jan. 7th) at 6pm to gather as a group again.

Your knowledge will be closely examined! 5 gift cards will be drawn!

Don’t miss it! We can’t wait to see you all again!

Here's the zoom link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/81772400155?pwd=UWg3T3lHd0ZMTXhxOTY3WGp3RXVyUT09
ID : 817 7240 0155 — Password : 221139

Return to Campus Town Hall is happening today! Don't forget to register! The Town Hall is open to all McGill students, faculty, and staff. When you register, you can write in your own questions for the panelists.

Here is the registration link:
https://mcgillevents.webex.com/webappng/sites/mcgillevents/meeting/register/771a6a6706744e278aeae1bc9058d691?ticket=4832534b00000005d216713cfeb7a79bda34015a0f03389ea12930a043693d1aa7b8aa2cc9c1c44a×tamp=1629316335611

MERCH SALES ARE ON!!
The winner of the merch design competition is Olivera Neskovic with her design “Together Mode”. Congratulations Vera, your tote bag is coming soon!

However, we loved every design submitted so we decided to make them all available to purchase on mugs, t-shirts, and eco-friendly, organic cotton tote bags! We are also selling bucket hats with MSoA embroidered on them.
Be sure to order from this fantastic and creative line of swag, to commemorate our bizarre but wonderful time together/apart at school so far.

Sales are ongoing so order whenever you like but be sure to do it soon! Our spring line is limited edition and will be replaced by the fall line.

The link to our Etsy store is here: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/McgillGASA?fbclid=IwAR3L_KfOxHnCsr7UZkKwmCl0B01b_klpkhAOsFSR4wm68JLp99xAugiZFn8
(Note: prices do not include shipping, which will be calculated at checkout)

Merch designs are in and it's time to vote for your top 3 faves!

Deadline to vote is this Friday, April 16th. Link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRshJQo3Ttx9M-RSjX90uXWsTI_JplPKVZCutcvrSOv1r_mA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Submit your artwork for the GASA 2021 Spring merch line to win a free t-shirt! The winning design will be printed on t-shirts, mugs, bucket hats, and tote bags.

Send an ai or pdf file to [email protected] by Friday, April 2nd

Can't wait to see your designs! (Voting will follow next week)

Don't forget to register for the first lecture of the Winter 2021 Lecture Series! “Research In Practice | Working across knowledge boundaries in practice,“ with Billie Faircloth. Registration link below!

Winter 2021 Lecture Series: Billie Faircloth RESEARCH IN PRACTICE | Working across knowledge boundaries in practice, Billie Faircloth asks: what is a transdisciplinary research group?