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Medium through it from upstream to downstream. All its inhabitants (plant and animal) and all its matter (mineral, metal, synthetic and composite) act together to influence the way water moves through the city – as well as radically altering its biochemistry. Currently, Montréal as a fountain finds a rather everyday and ignoble outlet in the wastewater treatment plant at the downstream end of the island. With intense rainfall earlier this summer the city became a site of flash flooding as its limited and aging water infrastructures failed miserably to deal with a changing climate. Our urban infrastructures do not celebrate water – as all good cityfountains should! The intent of this project is to celebrate water in the city and to ask Montrealers to propose ways in which we might make the city a better fountain – an urban environment designed inclusively with water and its more-than-human generative force. Workshop/Public program Installation Other Project statement 120731_chen_abc_mtl_cca_statement.pdf Supporting documents 120731_chen_abc_mtl_cca_supporting.pdf Budget 120731_chen_abc_mtl_cca_budget.pdf
Proposal for ABC : MTL – Canadian Centre for Architecture City as Fountain – eau! o! (take me to your water) Possible Keywords Abstract Ee Eau Ff Fountain Ww Water The city is a fountain. Certainly, Montréal is home to many fountains, ponds, water “features” and water events – some intentional – others less so. A city on an island in a larger archipelago, called Tiohtiake by the Mohawk, Montréal is a fountain. It shapes the waters that move through it from upstream to downstream. All its inhabitants (plant and animal) and all its matter (mineral, metal, synthetic and composite) act together to influence the way water moves through the city – as well as radically altering its biochemistry. Currently, Montréal as a fountain finds a rather everyday and ignoble outlet in the wastewater treatment plant at the downstream end of the island. With intense rainfall earlier this summer the city became a site of flash flooding as its limited and aging water infrastructures failed miserably to deal with a changing climate. Our urban infrastructures do not celebrate water – as all good city-fountains should! The intent of this project is to celebrate water in the city and to ask Montrealers to propose ways in which we might make the city a better fountain – an urban environment designed inclusively with water and its more-than-human generative force. Bio I am one body within the constantly evolving collective body that is Montréal. I am also an architect and a doctoral candidate in communications studies at Concordia University. As such, I am intensely interested in how we collectively negotiate and build the places where we live in the context of the larger more-thanhuman environment. With the larger part of humans now living in urban contexts even as the climate changes, the thoughtful design of cities is increasingly important. And critical among urban design considerations are the complex relations of the city to water. My current dissertation research proposes that how we come to know, understand and represent water is of radical importance to how we eventually plan and design with water. Although I begin this project as one body, my hope is that this will soon become a collective effort. City as Fountain Proposal for ABC : MTL – Canadian Centre for Architecture – C.Chen - 120731 . . . 1 of 5
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