Ongoing Projects
Project Type: Co-authored Book
In 2021, IDEAS-Be held an International Design Competition for students to reimagine the experience of public transportation in a post-pandemic context. The book reassesses the criteria of the competition and sees how projects align with the UN SDGs instead, considering that the SDGs are a good indicator of progress within the design systems in a country.(Read more…)
Project Type: Insight Grant
The Hidden Social Dimension of Infrastructure aims to uncover qualities of infrastructural spaces that enable societal, cultural, and environmental phenomena.(Read more…)
Project Type: Partnership Grant
Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada until 2027, a major research partnership on quality in the built environment brings together 14 universities, 70 researchers and 68 public and private organizations at the municipal, provincial and national levels.(Read more…)
Project Type: NGCI Project
The gamification platform, that is still in its prototype phase, is designed with academic researchers, urban planners and city dwellers in mind.(Read more…)
Project Type: Research and Research-Creation
This research program is situated at the intersection of design, marketing, anthropology (including design anthropology and sensory ethnography) and psychology (including consumer psychology and sensory evaluation). It interrogates the nascent field of Sensory Design (Lupton and Lipps 2018) from the standpoint of these other disciplines, and through incorporating the theories and methods of the latter into sensory design thinking seeks to socialize, responsibilize and thereby better ground the prevailing conceptions of what counts as good design. This is a SSHRC Insight Grant project.(Read more…)
Project Type: Fundamental+Action Research
This research aims to better understand how public spaces can be used to heighten awareness to multi-modal mobility options in the city of Montreal. This is a SSHRC funded parternship project.(Read more…)
Project Type: Fundamental Research
Through the lens of didacticism/dialecticism, eco- art, design, and architecture projects across Canada are studied. We explore how they offer eco-lessons to communities, locally, nationally, and/or internationally. This is a SSHRC Insight Grant project.(Read more…)
Project Type: Knowledge Mobilization
This project serves as a means for transdisciplinary research requiring citizen-engagement while also creating a measurable impact with regards to sustainable living.(Read more…)
Project Type: Design Competition
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Project Type: Fundamental Research
This research project proposes to make explicit the judgement of quality in our built environment and public buildings, theorizing these processes through a series of comparative analyses of Canadian awards of excellence. This is a SSHRC Insight Grant project.(Read more…)
Project Type: Fundamental Research
Through the lens of symbolic forms, this research aims to understand the way in which environmental strategies influence the imaginary and design of public architecture.(Read more…)
Completed Projects
Project Type: Co-authored Book
This creative guidebook, the result of an international competition, is a synthesis of the best ideas in the form of a free resource aimed at stimulating citizen discussion and community group engagement around the improvement of small urban environments connected to bus stops. This book is co-edited by Carmela Cucuzzella, Jean-Pierre Chupin, Emmanuel Rondia and Sherif Goubran.(Read more…)
Project Type: Single Authored Book
Eco-architecture is a way of designing and constructing buildings in accordance with the environment by reducing impacts on the earth’s wildlife, nature and resources. It contributes to the protection of ecological integrity. This book is intended for students and professionals of the built environment who wish to understand eco-architecture in its multifaceted dimensions.(Read more…)
Project Type: Co-edited Book
A edited book by Carmela Cucuzzella and Sherif Goubran, that explores sustainability in architecture from a variety of themes that span between measurement and meaning. We aim to explore how sustainable architectural extends well beyond the physical and the eco-efficient.(Read more…)
Project Type: Fundamental Research
A study on how biological metaphors and naturalistic analogies are framing sustainability in the built environment. The main corpus of this research are architectural, urban and landscape architecture design competitions in Canada between 1992-2012(Read more…)
Project Type: Pedagogical Experiment
DART 632, a master studio course entitled Public Spaces and Analogical Thinking collaborated with the Grand Jardins borough to re-imagine the public spaces in the downtown Concordia campus.(Read more…)
Project Type: Lecture Series
This lecture series in 2012-2013 was co-organized by Carmela Cucuczzella, Chris Moore and Andrew Forster. It included key Quebec practitioners and academics rethinking the practice and discipline of design.(Read more…)
Project Type: Lecture Series
This lecture series in 2013-2014 was co-organized by Carmela Cucuzzella, Chris Moore and Andrew Forster, all from the department of Design and Computation Arts. This lecture series highlighted the question of critical inquiry in design.(Read more…)
Project Type: Fundamental Research
This research project constructed a series of cartographies to better understand the direction in which public planners articulate and commission public architectural projects.(Read more…)
Project Type: Pedagogical Research
Detroit living labs explores ways in which marginalized public spaces can be used as spaces for vitality, encounters and urban revitalization. Design explorations are done through analogical thinking.(Read more…)
Project Type: Colloquium Organization
This colloquium organized in the context of ACFAS at Concordia highlighted the question of contemporary controversies and contradictions in architectural practice. The program included international speakers.(Read more…)
Project Type: Guest Editor, Special Edition
This special issue of Muséologies explores ways that contemporary art museums are facing the challenges of exhibiting research as a result of a creative process. What are the challenges for the exhibitor (artists, researchers, curators)?(Read more…)
Project Type: Illustrated Book + Performance
This book is at once linear and fragmented. The reading of both words and images is provoked through the browsing performance of the accordion book.(Read more…)
Project Type: Co-edited Book
This book comprises a series of 22 case studies by renowned experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. In 2015, it constitutes the most comprehensive survey of the dynamics behind the definition, organization, judging, archiving and publishing of architectural, landscape and urban design competitions in the world.(Read more…)
Project Type: Lecture Series
This series of workshops brought together speakers from a variety of disciplines where climate change was not seen as a constraint but rather an opportunity for identifying new ways of making, new ways of living, new ways of being in the city.(Read more…)
Project Type: Pedagogical Research
Originally launched by the US Department of Energy (DOE) in 2002, China International Solar Decathlon Competition is a green energy building competition involving participants from universities from four continents. The 2017 competition will be held in Dezhou, China.(Read more…)
