Exhibition Reviews by Thomas Strickland
Parachute, para-para, 4., Jun 2006
Book Reviews by Thomas Strickland
Journal of Architectural Education, 68:1 (2014): 144-146., Mar 14, 2014
Spatial Actions by Thomas Strickland
Publications by Thomas Strickland
Papers by Thomas Strickland
Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada
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On∣Site Review 30, Ethics and Publics, 2013
In 2010, pouf ! art + architecture (Cynthia Hammond and Thomas Strickland) began a site-specific ... more In 2010, pouf ! art + architecture (Cynthia Hammond and Thomas Strickland) began a site-specific project under the rubric of Urban Occupations Urbaines (UOU). UOU was a year-long, neighbourhood-based curatorial platform located in the rapidly gentrifying, post-industrial neighbourhood of Griffintown, Montreal. Curator Shauna Janssen devised UOU to engage artists in a dramatic space of urban transition, inviting our collaboration with Griffintown's many ruins and contested sites. The site of pouf !’s intervention was a well-used dog run called Parc Gallery. Beyond the humans and dogs who frequented it every day, this green space was little-known and thus vulnerable to the wave of demolition and development spreading across Griffintown. The city of Montreal privatized Parc Gallery in 2007 in preparation for condo development. pouf's two-year collaboration with the users of Parc Gallery asserted the publicness of this green space. We used art and outreach to show the park's history, present use, and future importance. Our motivation was to assert a counter-argument to city officials’ and developers’ claims that the park was 'empty' space, and to create a rationale for saving the park. In Elizabeth Grosz’s term, we ‘made visible’ Parc Gallery’s inter-species vitality, its meaning as shared, interspecies space, and its surprising heritage as a space of community activism.
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