
Mayuri Paranthahan
Mayuri Paranthahan is a second-generation Tamil Sri Lankan-Canadian designer, researcher, writer, and curator. She is a Master of Architecture candidate at the University of Waterloo in Canada where she also completed her Bachelor of Architectural Studies in 2019. She is currently pursuing a federally funded thesis on the spatial organization of housework in her family’s displacement from a Jaffna, Sri Lanka village to the suburban Greater Toronto Area in Canada in the mid-1980s. Previously, Mayuri has worked as a curatorial intern at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in the Department of Architecture and Design, and as an intern architect at WXY Studio in New York City, KWY Studio in Lisbon, and Bovenbouw Architectuur in Antwerp. Mayuri has published papers in Chutney Magazine, galt publication, and Ground Up Journal, and is one of three 2022 Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference Student Diversity fellows.
Sessions in which Mayuri Paranthahan participates
- Our Grand Domestic Revolution: (Re-)making home in Jaffna, Sri Lanka and the Greater Toronto Area UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Presenter Mayuri Paranthahan (University of Waterloo School of Architecture) |
- 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Dis-placements: Spatial Stories of Migration II
- Displacement, describing a sense of uprootedness, is seemingly irreconcilable with the grounding quality of domestic space. However, the practic...
- Paper
Sessions in which Mayuri Paranthahan attends
- Opening Event
- Signup required Dawson Hall (Le Balcon) St James united - Dawson Hall
- 4:45 PM - 8:30 PM | 3 hours 45 minutes
- We propose a rich and colorful inaugural evening, in a mythical place: Dawson Hall, behind St James United Church (1887-1889, Alexander Francis ...
- Cocktail
- Welcome coffee and registration - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Dis-placements: Spatial Stories of Migration I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The cultural landscapes of migration are an inextricable part of Canada’s urban, social and nation...
- Regular session
- Foreign Bodies: Mapping Experiences of Exclusion and Resistance of Migrant Women in Ottawa-Gatineau
- Presenter Natalia Escobar Castrillon (Carleton University) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Dis-placements: Spatial Stories of Migration I
- “Migrations are made, they don’t just happen. There are conditions which cause them” (Saskia Sassen)Although urban populations are becomi...
- Paper
- Immigrant Reception Architecture before World War I: Two Canadian Typologies UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Presenter David Monteyne (University of Calgary) |
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Dis-placements: Spatial Stories of Migration I
- My recent book, For the Temporary Accommodation of Settlers: Architecture and Immigrant Reception in Canada, 1870-1930 (McGill-Queen’s, 2...
- Paper
- Break (copy)
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutes
- A Home then, A Home Now UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Presenter Natalie Jianyi Kopp (University of Waterloo School of Architecture) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Dis-placements: Spatial Stories of Migration II
- Home is a deceptively simple term connecting a vast network of people, places, objects, and emotions. As people move from place to place, home m...
- Paper
- Dis-placements: Spatial Stories of Migration II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The cultural landscapes of migration are an inextricable part of Canada’s urban, social and nation...
- Regular session
- Lunch and presentation of the Martin Eli Weil prize - Théâtre
- 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM | 2 hours
- Repas
- The ingredient of space: Reflections on diasporic dining practices UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Presenter Michael Windover (Carleton University) | Presenter Parker Poole |
- 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Dis-placements: Spatial Stories of Migration II
- Food offers a means of examining spatial stories of migration. As a set of heritage activities, the preparation, storage, and consumption of foo...
- Paper
- Dis-placements: Spatial Stories of Migration III UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The cultural landscapes of migration are an inextricable part of Canada’s urban, social and nation...
- Regular session
- Suburban Smart Home UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Presenter Bianca Weeko Martin |
- 3:00 PM - 3:10 PM | 10 minutes Part of: Dis-placements: Spatial Stories of Migration III
- I discuss a narrative “zine”, Home Smart Home, which I created in 2021 as a commission for UKAI Projects and the Goethe-Institut Toronto ...
- Paper
- ACTITECTURE: Socially Transformative Architecture Proposal UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Presenter Joudy Kusaibati |
- 3:15 PM - 3:25 PM | 10 minutes Part of: Dis-placements: Spatial Stories of Migration III
- Architecture has the agency to either perpetuate social exclusion or initiate a social change that can offset the continuing forms of hostile ar...
- Paper
- Screening of the movie "Roger D'Astous" and conversation with filmmaker Étienne Desrosiers UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 2 hours
- Roger D'Astous is one of the most important Canadian architects of the 20th century. A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, he worked all his life to ...
- Welcome coffee
- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Strategies for Urban Revival and Renewal in Canadian Cities and Towns I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Many of our Canadian cities and towns currently find themselves in need of revival and renewal. Disinvestment in the public realm, decentralizat...
- Regular session
- Teaching Small Modernisms: Graphic Novels as a Recuperative Medium
- Presenter Dustin Valen (McGill University) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Architecture and heritage of the everyday I
- This paper discusses the pedagogical strategies and outcomes of a recent seminar, conducted at the McGill school of architecture in 2022, which ...
- Paper
- Developing a ‘care-full’ approach to densification, diversification, and conservation in suburban landscapes that were ‘not built for change’
- Presenter Nik Luka | Presenter Michael Nugent |
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Strategies for Urban Revival and Renewal in Canadian Cities and Towns I
- To speak of participatory conservation typically brings to mind cases where citizens mobilise to protect threatened forms of material herita...
- Paper
- Break
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Everyday Neighbourhood Design in Canada’s Model Town: Oromocto NB, 1955-69 UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Presenter David L.A. Gordon (SURP Queen's University) | Presenter Miranda Virginillo (SURP Queen's University) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Architecture and heritage of the everyday II
- Oromocto, NB was known as “Canada’s Model Town” in 1959. This New Town was a collaborative design between Central Mortgage and Housing’s Archite...
- Paper
- Architecture and heritage of the everyday II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Architectural history and heritage have historically been defined by superlatives. Vernacular traditions and local histories, on the other hand,...
- Regular session
- Low hanging fruit: food production in urban park design
- Presenter June Diana Komisar (X University (formerly Ryerson University)) |
- 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Rethinking major urban public parks, between continuity and reinvention
- The importance of parks became starkly apparent as we pivoted to new ways of socializing, exercising, eating, and all aspects of living during t...
- Paper
- Lunch and Annual General Meeting of Members
- 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 3 hours
- Repas
- Chocolate and basketball UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- Presenter John Leroux (Canada) |
- 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM | 20 minutes Part of: Current research B
- Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith, a Canadian, at the International YMCA College in Massachusetts. As a student, Lyman Arc...
- Paper
- Walking tour in the Centre-sud neighborhood
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Walking tour of the working-class housing and churches of Saint-Pierre-Apôtre and Sainte-Brigide-de-Kildare (now the Sainte-Brigide Cultural and...
- Welcome coffee
- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Seeing, hearing, experiencing, tasting architecture... I
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 PM | 13 hours 30 minutes
- “Felt experiences” have become key components of our understanding of the world in the digit...
- Regular session
- “Seeing” Colonial Violence in Architecture: The Case of the Citadel Theatre
- Presenter Banafsheh Mohammadi (University of Alberta ) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Seeing, hearing, experiencing, tasting architecture... I
- Through an investigation of the Citadel Theatre of Edmonton, one of the largest North American theatres, I investigate works of architecture as ...
- Paper
- Through colour
- Presenter Jade Manbodh (university of waterloo) |
- 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Seeing, hearing, experiencing, tasting architecture... I
- Through twenty-eight encounters, site history is explored differently; colour becomes a lens of site analysis that traces social, economic, and ...
- Paper
- Break (copy)
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Heritage for Whom? Conserving Community Spaces UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- While the relationship between architecture and community are intrinsically intertwined, the built...
- Regular session
- La ville extraordinaire
- Presenter Prof. Cynthia Hammond (Concordia University) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Heritage for Whom? Conserving Community Spaces
- La ville extraordinaire is a three-year Partnership Development oral history research-creation project that aims to understand the ways in which...
- Paper
- Value-Inclusive Design for Socially Equitable Communities: Discovering knowledge through community-based participatory research – uncovering what is valued
- Presenter Eric Harris (University of the District of Columbia (UDC) | College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences (CAUSES)) |
- 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Designing for accessibility and inclusivity
- The future of development in peri-urban/rural areas and our cities depends on how we respond to the challenges of today. Due to population growt...
- Paper
- Christian Churches – A continuum through adaptive reuse
- Presenter Joginder Singh |
- 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Heritage for Whom? Conserving Community Spaces
- The talk explores the Adaptive Reuse and Revitalization of Christian Religious Architecture by diverse faiths. These heritage spaces are transfo...
- Paper
- Lunch
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour
- Repas
- Discovery of the Soulanges Canal
- Signup required UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
- 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM | 4 hours 30 minutes
- Bus tour of the Soulanges Canal and its facilities (1899-1959), currently undergoing a major enhancement project. The first stop will be at the ...
- Repas
- Closing dinner
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket La Biosphère - Belvédère et salle panoramique
- 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM | 5 hours
- We offer a unique experience for the closing dinner of this conference in Montreal, in the former U.S. pavilion of Expo'67 - the most popular of...
- Event