Montréal en parcours

26.01.2011 /// In the fall of 2010, 14 graduating students in landscape architecture took part in a workshop at the School of Landscape Architecture at Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Environmental Design with the theme Montréal en parcours.

The students’ challenge was to reflect on some strategies for presenting Montréal and its attractions by documenting existing urban journeys and creating new urban walks that express the potentials of urban space with issues of environment, heritage, living space and identity in mind.

The result of this process initially revealed the character and nature of suggested journeys within Montréal’s territory based on seven specific themes: art, culture, society, history, heritage, architecture and nature. In the wake of this analysis and the potentials of urban territory, the students produced seven designs for walks encompassing three significant entities of Montréal’s landscape, namely aerial space, underground space and riverfront space.

Montréal en parcours is a “research and project” experiment that promotes a goal upheld by the Building Montréal, UNESCO City of Design initiative, namely the presentation of Montréal’s urban landscapes.

It is also worth noting that this landscape architecture workshop fits in with one of the scientific missions of the UNESCO Chair on Landscape and Environment at Université de Montréal, namely the support of higher education in partnership with local communities and with civil society in a broader sense.


Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec, professor
Assisted by
Lyndsay Daudier, (logistical collaboration / follow-ups)
Sylvain Paquette, (scientific collaboration)

 

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