Information Session: U of C Faculty of Environmental Design Graduate Programs

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Information Session
Graduate Programs: Faculty of Environmental Design,
University of Calgary
Facilitated by Catherine Hamel
9:30 am | October 23, 2018
Room W812, Centre for the Arts, University of Lethbridge

Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS) at the University of Calgary offers exciting programs to prepare individuals for critical work in sustainable built and natural environments. Situated within one of the fastest growing cities in Canada, EVDS has long been dedicated to an interdisciplinary and innovative culture. Our combined commitment to both the environment and leading edge design makes for a stimulating learning and teaching setting. Students as well as faculty members are dedicated to seeking answers for more sustainable ways to inhabit our world – as creative and effective design collaborators and leaders.

The Master of Architecture (MArch) is a course-based graduate degree; a top-tier program in Canada, the MArch centres itself on the ‘ecologies’ of design. The Master of Planning (MPlan) is an accredited course-based professional program that is on the leading edge of practice. Our new Master of Landscape Architecture program was granted full accreditation for a three-year term by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA). These three professional, course-based programs complement our thesis-based Master of Environmental Design (MEDes) + Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program making for a community of scholars who consider design & environmental directions from broad interdisciplinary perspectives.

Catherine Hamel is an associate professor of architecture in the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada. Her interests lie in the active principles of architecture as instruments of change. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Hamel’s themes investigated to date include identity and estrangement in the context of post-war reconstruction and exile; memory and the voicing of political experiences in the public realm. Her current research explores restorative development and the ability to activate space and its inhabitants towards a more just society. What agitates her is not the sides people take, but the lines they draw in order to be able to take them.

Hamel also speaks in the Architecture & Design Now speaker series, organized by the Department of Art, on Monday, October 22 at 6 pm in Room L1060. More information about this event can be found here.

Everyone is welcome to attend both events.

Image courtesy of University of Calgary.

Room or Area: 
W812

Free, everyone welcome


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