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Stanley Britton + Pierre Muanda. Reconciliation in the DRC 2
The psychological need in the Democratic Republic of Congo today is a demonstration of people coming together in forgiveness and sharing rather than sadness for the recent past. Our suggested location at Kinshasa’s Stad des Martyrs carries special importance as a reconciliation-through-sport theme: the recent African Championship of Football Clubs by the Tout Puissant Mazembe team from Lubumbashi in the DRC southeast!
On the road to the 2010 FIFA World Cup of Soccer this win by the DRC is becoming a big rally for national pride. An unintended consequence. -
Keith Harder. Gravitas
Anson twin-engine airplanes were used to train pilots in the Commonwealth Air Training Program of WWII. After the war, many of these planes were sold as scrap or parts to local farmers. Bob Evans of the Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum has collected twelve skeletons of these abandoned planes for an Anson reconstruction project. The remains have been assembled by Keith Harder in a land art installation, Gravitas, located along the 2A highway 3km north of Cayley, Alberta. It is on private land and is not open to the public although it is visible from the air.
These artifacts are some of the only palpable remainders of a galvanising moment in the history of western Canada; a time that was fraught with desperation and hope as well as romance and grievous tragedy. This moment produced stories which condense much of the mystery that comprises the human condition. Those stories accrete to these artifacts in complex, if partial, ways.
For the photographic narrative of the making of this work, click here.
Keith Harder is chair of the Department of Fine Arts, Augustana Faculty, University of Alberta in Camrose, Alberta. http://www.augustana.ca/~hardk/
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Paul Kariouk. Cenotaph Forest, Ottawa 2
Paul deBellet Kariouk received his architectural degree from Columbia University. He began his own practice in 1998 and in 2001 he moved his office, PdK:A/Kariouk Architecture, from New York City to Ottawa. Alongside his practice he is a tenured faculty at Carleton University. The project is a collaboration with Frédéric Carrier, OAQ, FRAIC, National Architect, Public Works and government Services Canada
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Paul Kariouk. Disappearing Peace, Ottawa 2
Paul deBellet Kariouk received his architectural degree from Columbia University. He began his own practice in 1998 and in 2001 he moved his office, PdK:A/Kariouk Architecture, from New York City to Ottawa. Alongside his practice he is a tenured faculty at Carleton University. The project is a collaboration with Frédéric Carrier, OAQ, FRAIC, National Architect, Public Works and government Services Canada
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Karen Keddy. biographical note
Karen Keddy teaches cultural and social issues in the undergraduate and graduate programs in Architecture at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin-Madison and Dalhousie University, and contributed to the Women's Monument competition in Vancouver leading to a travelling exhibit, Giving Voice: A Monument in Progress.
A fuller biographical note can be found in the third panel of this submission. -
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PLANT Architect. Dublin Grounds of Remembrance 2
PLANT Architect’s Toronto studio was founded in 1995 by Chris Pommer, Lisa Rapoport and Mary Tremain. Graduates of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, and having worked together in various architecture firms, the partners came together out of their shared desire to explore the convergence of architecture and landscape architecture.
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Jowenne Poon. A Wall in the Head 2
Jowenne (M.Arch Toronto, LEED AP, OAA Intern) is an architectural designer born and raised in Toronto. She studied the memorialized state of Berlin for her Master’s thesis and is interested in related circumstances. She is currently based in Toronto and has previously worked and studied in Berlin, Copenhagen and New York City. She also enjoys exploring as an avid photographer. David Lieberman was the advisor for this project.
contact@jowennepoon.com
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Nick Sowers. Sonic Cyclorama at Omaha Beach 2
Nick Sowers is a graduate student in architecture at University of California, Berkeley, currently travelling on a John K Branner Fellowship studying military space around the world.
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Stephanie White. Memorial to the Canadian Navy at 100
Stephanie White is the editor of On Site review, and is currently working on the engineering drawings for this project, which she will add in due course.
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