Metathesis
The 6th Annual SAPL Student Research Conference
Two days In-person and virtual: May 4 and 5, 2022
It was really worthwhile for me as a practitioner to attend this day-long conference. It's a comprehensive summary of the interdisciplinary ideas, themes and research the students at the faculty are currently working on. Lots for me to think about take back into day-to-day practice.
Partner of landscape architecture firm, 2019
Metathesis: Resilience & Beyond Via Zoom
On May 5, Metathesis is entirely online
Meeting ID: 979 7115 2930
Passcode: 622810
Urban Alchemy: Designing a City That Heals
Keynote Speaker: Druh Farrell
Druh served on Calgary City Council for twenty years. From transformational projects like the Central Library, East Village, and the Peace Bridge, to friendship-builders like dog parks, basketball courts, and community gardens, Druh learned that cities can bring people together or push them apart. Paying attention to intersectional issues like belonging, gender, ability, race, and climate, through design, can help build a healthier city.
Panel Discussion META.Thesis: CITIES IMAGINED
The Research Conference is what compelled me to apply for the Master of Environmental Design!
MEDes student, 2020
About the Conference
The theme for the 6th annual SAPL Research Conference (RC22) is META + thesis: Resilience and Beyond.
The conference uses the term Metathesis to bridge the diversity of research emerging from the interdisciplinary fields within the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape.
Metathesis is defined as a change in place or condition. ‘Meta’ meaning change or transformation, occurring after or beyond, and ‘Thesis’ relating to research that helps form the essence of going beyond an idea, into something that could be tangible, marketable, and real. We live in a world where changes in the environment, economy, society, and technology have created new norms within our surroundings and everyday lives. The introduction of new ideas, approaches, methods, and design work holds potential to be highly transformative, breaking old habits and ways of doing things.
The conference subtheme, Resilience and Beyond, responds to contemporary global socio-ecological and health crises, such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and growing economic and social inequities. Participants will explore themes and interventions that support a transition towards more resilient, sustainable, equitable, healthy, and adaptive environments and societies.
The conference will highlight work undertaken within and beyond the disciplines of architecture, planning, and landscape that pushes boundaries, creativity, and transcends established norms. 'Metathesis' provides a forum for students to share their research, and network with the wider urban design and community.
Participants registered with The Alberta Association of Architects ( AAA) are eligible to submit their registration details to AAA and receive Unstructured Professional Development (PD) hours. The keynote speaker presentation, panel discussion, student presentations, and workshops are all eligible for the Unstructured PD hours. Participants can use the digital copy of the conference booklet for the PD Hours submission via AAA Website.
Join the META+thesis Conversation
The SAPL Research Conference provides students with a forum for presenting and sharing their work with the wider student body, faculty, alumni and the industry. SAPL is hosting the event over two days with additional programming — for more accessibility, more interdisciplinary exchange, more presenters and more meaningful learning.
What did you learn from META+thesis? We want to know!
#saplrc22
Call for Student Abstracts
Does your research explore themes and interventions in the built environment that facilitate a transition towards more resilient places and cities? The RC22 committee invites you to submit ab abstract for the 2022 SAPL Student Research Conference: META + thesis: Resilience and Beyond.
Be creative in your submissions! They can involve proposed research projects, literature reviews, methodological explorations, case studies, or presentations of prototypes.
The open period for submissions has closed. Thank you to all students who submitted. Looking forward to seeing you at the conference!
Questions? Email nooshin.esmaeili@ucalgary.ca and tugba.altin@ucalgary.ca.
Agenda
Day 1: May 4th – Conference opening at the CBDLab
Official Conference Welcome by SAPL Dean John Brown
'Urban Alchemy: Designing a City that Heals'
Moderator: Natalie Robertson - SAPL PhD candidate
Panelists:
Bill Black - President and COO of Calgary Construction Association
Celia Lee - Executive Director of Sustainable Calgary
Heather Galbraith - Resilience Strategist from the City of Calgary
Stephen Shawcross - Environmental Planner, Director at IBI GROUP, Calgary
View Faculty published books, Ultra Journal editions, poster exhibition, and student projects from the Year-End Show.
Tour ends at 1:30pm.
Day 2: May 5th
Zoom Link
https://ucalgary.zoom.us/j/97971152930?pwd=c1R5WmJWdi90R29NWXRrY3R3V3ZxQT09
Meeting ID: 979 7115 2930
Passcode: 622810
Meta Ways – Paper Presentations (20 min each including Q&A)
Moderator: Matt Knapik, Urban Designer, Associate, O2Planning + Design
- Gabriela Alves, MEDes- Research Title: Investigating Cultural Appropriateness in On-Reserve Housing in the Swan River First Nation Community
- Miho Lowen-Trudeau, PhD Candidate - Investigating Natural Playgrounds with Mobile Methods
- Raed Hayyaneh, PhD Candidate- Nature Knights Program: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Environmental Education Programs in Enhancing Student’s Knowledge, Awareness, Skills, and Attitudes Towards Nature Conservation
Topic: Writing research proposals
Presenter: Petra McDougall, Writing Support Services, University of Calgary
Moderator: Tugba Altin. PhD Candidate
10:45 – 12:00
Meta Poster - (15 min each including Q&A)
Moderator: Sandy Aumonier Heritage Conservation Advisor, Alberta Culture
- Jay Heule, MPlan: Reimagining Parade Square in Currie
- Diba Mohebzadeh, Garima Chaudhary, & Deepali Dang, MPlan: SymbioCity: “It’s a human nest – where most of us live”
- Cathryn John, MArch: Affordable Housing in Vancouver: Cities in the Sky
- Tristan Scholten & Simran Chowdhary, MPlan: Informality in the Built Environment – A Kumasi-Calgary Collaboration Project
- Sunny Bayar, MArch: Harmony as One – A Holistic Intervention at Fort Calgary
Topic: Writing Literature Review
Presenter: Ali Mohammadi, Writing Support Services, University of Calgary
Moderator: Farhad Mortezaee, MEDes Candidate
Meta Kucha (Pecha Kucha) (10 min each including Q&A)
Moderator: Stephanie Yeung, Architect and Studio Lead, Gibbs Gage Architects
- Karly Do, MEDes: Drumheller: The Town of Sixty Roadside Attractions
- Yiming Yang, March: Engaging with Nature
- Carter McHugh, March: Centre for Progress
- Ahoo Rezaei, MArch: Sohesh
- Dania Shahab, MArch: InnerHaven
Topic: Ethics Application
Presenter: Dr. Jenny Godley, Chair of the Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board & Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary.
Moderator: Miho Lowan-Trudeau, PhD Candidate
Topic: Dissemination in Architecture Research: How to write Abstracts + Conference Papers
Presenter: Dr. Hazem Rashed-Ali, Associate Dean of Research - College of architecture, Texas Tech University
Moderator: Nooshin Esmaeili, PhD Candidate
Meta Cycle - (20 min each including Q&A)
Moderator: TBD
- Mehdi Zahed Zahenadi, PhD Candidate - Improving sustainable architectural design process using BIM-based life cycle assessment (LCA)
- Yaser Rahmaniani, PhD Candidate - Leveling the driving power and dependence power of the factors involved in the proliferation of small size apartment units
- Milad MohammadKhani, MEDes - Blue-Green Rehabilitation Design Guideline for Calgary’s Gravel Back Lanes
Closing remarks by Barry Wylant SAPL Graduate Program Director
Meta-Poster Session
Scenes from Metathesis
