Queering Canada’s Built Environment
Queerness and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer histories are a part of architectural and historical production. Yet, these perspectives do not enjoy the same prominence as heterocentric narratives. This session aims to interrogate all aspects of gender and sexual identity related to the Canadian built environment. It seeks to scrutinize the successes and failures of architecture, architectural history, and heritage in accommodating queer and trans bodies as well as their voices. This includes studying queer Canadian spaces, the use of queer theory to analyze the built environment, and exploring how queer people and places have been excluded from the architectural canon. We invite research based in case studies, research-creation, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Presentations that approach identity and representation intersectionally are encouraged.
Sub Sessions
- Cruising Along The Bay: Department Stores as Architectures of Queer Possibility
- Presenter Aidan Flynn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Presenter Ben Lapierre (Concordia University)
- 20 minutes | 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM Part of: Queering Canada’s Built Environment
- Paper
- Love on the Other Side: A Telepathic Investigation of Montreal’s Love Discotheque
- Presenter Adrian Deveau (Concordia University, Department of Art History, Canada)
- 20 minutes | 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM Part of: Queering Canada’s Built Environment
- Paper
- Distinctively Canadian: considering Confederation's post-modern
- UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- Presenter Nancy Oakley
- 20 minutes | 10:00 AM -10:20 AM Part of: Queering Canada’s Built Environment
- Paper