Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats

07/03/2024

ADDA: DESIGN AND CULTURE

07/03/2024

Mindful Habitats proudly presents an edited volume with contributions from practitioners and theorists contemplating topics around design and its cultural significance.

To purchase Adda, Mindful Conversations: Design and Culture, please visit: https://www.mindfulhabitats.ca/publications/marginalia-series

The volume is first in the Marginalia series introduced by Mindful Habitats that includes comments by and conversations amongst the editors and authors. This furthers in print format the concept of conversations as nurtured in all Mindful Habitats’ projects.

ADDA: DESIGN AND CULTURE

03/16/2023

Final session of the series Millennials and the Canadian Housing Market
Session 4: Ownership, Housing, and Community Design: A Sustainability Perspective
https://www.mindfulhabitats.ca/conversations/mindful-habitats-for-millennials/ownership-housing-and-community-design

March 16, 2023 | 6: 00 - 7:30 PM EST
Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre | 355 Cooper Street, Ottawa
Free and Open to Public
This session explores homeownership and community structure from a sustainability perspective, considering the inter-relationship between economic, environmental, and social factors. It offers a critical look into what might be termed a ‘perfect/happy city,’ including the interdependencies, opportunities, and challenges of a design that fosters stability and accommodates change.

Panelists: Joe Berridge, Rodney Wilts, Vikram Bhatt, and Ross Farris
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Urban Land Institute Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism Algonquin College

Benjamin Gianni Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism Algonquin College

03/09/2023

A reminder to join us tonight for session three of the 'Millennials and the Canadian Housing Market Speaker Series.'

The 3rd session, "Ownership: Affordability and Financing", looks behind the scenes to understand the impact of tenure, title, and financing options on what can be built and/or owned, including the effect on tenure and affordability. This session will explore various ways in which ownership can be structured.

The third session will take place this evening, starting at 6:00pm located at the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre (355 Cooper St, Ottawa. The event is free of charge and open to the public.

The panelists for the session will be Saide Sayah (Fotenn Planning + Design), Mushtaq Kazani (Habitat for Humanity Greater Ottawa), Gregory Banfield (Home Ownership Alternatives), and Jennifer Tsao (CMHC).

We look forward to seeing you there!

03/02/2023

Millennials and the Canadian Housing Market
Session 3: Home Ownership from an affordability ad Financing Perspective
March 9, 2023 | 6: 00 - 7:30 PM EST
Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre | 355 Cooper Street, Ottawa
https://www.mindfulhabitats.ca/.../ownership-from-an...
Free and Open to Public
This session looks behind the scenes to understand the impact of tenure, title, and financing options on what can be built and/or owned, including the effect on tenure and affordability. It explores various ways in which ownership can be structured (landlease, rent-to-own, second mortgages, etc. and questions what might need to change to support additional and unexplored options in Canada.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Urban Land Institute
Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism
Algonquin College

02/13/2023

Tonight! Feb 13, 6-7:30 PM EST
Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre
Session 2: Homeownership from a Design and Planning Perspective

To better understand how and why the Canadian Housing marketplace functions as it does, this session explores potential disconnects between what it produces and the kinds of housing that aspiring homeowners might want. Focusing on design, the session will also compare and contrast what is available here in Canada with innovative and design-forward housing solutions elsewhere.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Urban Land Institute Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism
Algonquin College

01/26/2023

The 1st session of "Millennials and the Canadian Housing Market" explores homeownership from a Historical perspective Keynote: Prof. Benjamin Gianni, Carleton University & panelists Stephen Willis (Stantec), Ioana Teodorescu (post war housing scholar), Patricia Roset-Zuppa (CMHC).
https://www.mindfulhabitats.ca/conversations/mindful-habitats-for-millennials

February 6, 2023 6:7:30 PM EST
Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St, Ottawa
Open and free to the public.
https://www.mindfulhabitats.ca/conversations/mindful-habitats-for-millennials

The series is jointly sponsored by:•
Carleton University, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism
Algonquin College, Bachelor of Interior Design Program
The Urban Land Institute, Ottawa Chapter
The Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats
with generous support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection Grant

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Urban Land Institute
Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism
Algonquin College

01/12/2023

Save the dates:
Millennials and the Canadian Housing Market: A four part series in the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre on February 6, February13, March 9 and March 16, 2023, from 6:00-7:30 PM.

Jointly organized by the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University, Bachelor of Interior Design Program, Algonquin College, Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats, and Urban Land Institute Ottawa Chapter
https://www.mindfulhabitats.ca/.../mindful-habitats-for...

Canada’s current housing crisis affects a broad spectrum of the population and involves supply, affordability, tenure, and tenancy. To better explore the issues at play, this series focuses on millennials as a specific demographic group, and on a particular segment of the housing market, namely housing for purchase.
The goal of this series is to explore (and question) the status quo by fostering a dialogue between millennials (those born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s) who are the major group of home buyers at the moment and an array of housing experts, including urban historians, developers, real estate professionals, builders, policymakers, financing specialists, environmental experts, and socio-cultural activists.
This dialogue is intended to explore opportunities to broaden the repository of existing housing and homeownership options by identifying limitations and determining what interventions may be necessary and/or feasible given the systems under which the housing market operates in Canada.

Stay tuned for more details!
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)Azrieli School of Architecture & UrbanismAlgonquin College Urban Land Institute

01/11/2023

Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats in association with Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University, Bachelor of Interior Design Program, Algonquin College and Urban Land Institute Ottawa Chapter presents,
Millennials and the Canadian Housing Market: A four part series in the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre on February 6, February13, March 9 and March 16, 2023, from 6:00-7:30 PM.

Canada’s current housing crisis affects a broad spectrum of the population and involves supply, affordability, tenure, and tenancy. To better explore the issues at play, this series focuses on millennials as a specific demographic group, and on a particular segment of the housing market, namely housing for purchase.
The goal of this series is to explore (and question) the status quo by fostering a dialogue between millennials (those born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s) who are the major group of home buyers at the moment and an array of housing experts, including urban historians, developers, real estate professionals, builders, policymakers, financing specialists, environmental experts, and socio-cultural activists.
This dialogue is intended to explore opportunities to broaden the repository of existing housing and homeownership options by identifying limitations and determining what interventions may be necessary and/or feasible given the systems under which the housing market operates in Canada.
https://www.mindfulhabitats.ca/conversations/mindful-habitats-for-millennials

Stay tuned for more details!

07/27/2022

Join us online tomorrow for "Immersive Storytelling: Negotiating Identity" - the last webinar in the "Negotiating Digital Space in Culturally Significant Storytelling" series features speakers Maize Longboat and Dylan Paré.

Maize Longboat is Kanien'kehá:ka with family at Six Nations of the Grand River and was raised on the unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation near Vancouver, BC. He is a Partner Relations Manager with Unity Technologies and served as Skins Workshops Associate Director with Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC) and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) from 2019 to 2021. He holds an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University. His Master’s research examined Indigenous videogame development through the production of his own game Terra Nova, award-winning cooperative platformer with an interactive narrative.

Dylan Paré is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Learning Sciences at the University of Calgary, Werklund School of Education. They are the Founder and Director of Q***r Code, an award-winning studio that designs and researches virtual reality and interactive computer-based learning environments for learning about issues related to gender, sexuality, and intersecting marginalization. Dylan's primary research project reimagines computational literacies by interweaving community storytelling with scholarship on complexity studies, embodied learning, and q***r and trans phenomenology.

Register for free (link in bio) to attend Thursday, July 28, 1 pm-3 pm EST.
https://www.mindfulhabitats.ca/conversations/negotiating-digital-space-in-culturally-significant-storytelling