What is WasteScapes? Qu’est-ce que Wastescapes?
WasteScapes is a multi-platform research-creation designed by Liz Miller and MJ Thompson that involves pedagogical resources, media interventions, publications and site-based learning.
Wastescapes est un projet de recherche et de création multi-plateforme conçu par Liz Miller et MJ Thompson qui comprend des interventions médiatiques, des ressources pédagogiques, des publications et de l’apprentissage in situ.
Who is it for? Pour qui?
We developed the Wastescapes app for teachers interested in the potential of site-based learning, cycling enthusiasts, and Montrealers eager to explore their city in new ways.
Nous avons développé l’appli Wastescapes pour des professeurs qui s’intéressent au potentiel de l’apprentissage in situ, des cyclistes, et des Montréalais.es désireux d’explorer leur ville sous un angle nouveau.
Territorial Acknowledgement / Reconnaissance territoriale
We would like to acknowledge that the App and related WasteScape events take place on unceded Indigenous land. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters.
As you move through the city and its wastescapes, we invite you to reflect on the relationship between waste and colonialism. All of the places you will visit are unceded land, and as Max Liboiron suggests in Pollution Is Colonialism, “pollution is not a manifestation or side effect of colonialism but is rather an enactment of ongoing colonial relations to Land.” (Liboiron, 6) To learn more, visit Concordia’s Territorial Acknowledgement or check out Max Liboiron’s book, Pollution Is Colonialism.
Nous tenons à reconnaître que l’application et les événements WasteScape connexes se déroulent sur des terres autochtones non cédées. La nation Kanien’kehá:ka est reconnue comme étant la gardienne des terres et des eaux.
En vous déplaçant dans la ville et ses paysages de déchets, nous vous invitons à réfléchir à la relation entre les déchets et le colonialisme. Tous les lieux que vous visiterez sont des terres non cédées et, comme le suggère Max Liboiron dans Pollution Is Colonialism, “la pollution n’est pas une manifestation ou un effet secondaire du colonialisme, mais plutôt une mise en œuvre des relations coloniales continues avec la terre.” (Liboiron, 6) Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site de Concordia Territorial Acknowledgement ou consultez le livre de Max Liboiron, Pollution Is Colonialism.
Creators (see full credits below)
Elizabeth (Liz) Miller is a professor at Concordia University (Montreal) and a documentary maker with an expertise in environmental media. She uses collaboration and interactivity as a way to connect personal stories to larger social issues such as water privatization, gender & climate change. She is the co-author of Going Public: The Art of Participatory Practice (2017 website.)
MJ Thompson (PhD., New York University 2008) is a writer and professor working on performance and embodiment. Her articles have appeared in Ballettanz, Border Crossings, The Brooklyn Rail, Canadian Art, Dance Current, The Globe and Mail, and more. Her essays have appeared in several anthologies, including Performance Studies Canada (McGill-Queen’s Press, 2017).
CREDITS
App Director & Writers
- Liz Miller
- MJ Thompson
App Design
- Creative Technologist & App Coordinator -Kim Grinfeder
- App developer – Johannes Gundlack
- App visual designer – Justine Routhier
- Photographs – Lisa Graves
- Sound – Zaccary Dyck
Web design
- Antonia Hernández – MAT3RIAL
Research and Teaching Assistants
- Emilie Trudeau
- Maia Donnelly
Field Course Design
- Liz Miller & MJ Thompson
Thanks to
- Julia Bourque
- Ana Castilo
- Megan Clarke
- Sebastian Di Poi
- Jill Didur
- Sarah Dorner
- Marianne Giguere
- Martin Heroux
- Satoshi Ikeda
- Kelly Jazvak
- Laurence Lavigne
- Mathew Leddy
- Diane Martin
- Hugo Martorell
- Éric Ménard
- Eleni Myravini
- Sylvain Oulette
- Luc Robinson
- Cameron Swift
- Sandrine Tessier
- Jonathan Verreault, Manon Sorais, Anais Kerric
- Arrien Weeks
- Sylvie Anne Williams
Special thanks to
- Faisal Shennib, Concordia Zero Waste
Field course made possible with support from
- Center for Teaching and Learning, Rob Cassidy
- Vice Provost Teaching and Learning, Sandra Gabriel