Dr. Alice Jarry and her team work across three spaces: The Milieux Institute Speculative Life Biolab, EV. 7.725, and the Next Generation Cities Institute.
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The Milieux Institute Speculative Life Biolab

Director: Alice Jarry

The Milieux Speculative Life BioLab is a hybrid research-creation laboratory for the development and facilitation of conceptual and material-based exploration around the changing status of life on the planet and technosphere from an interdisciplinary perspective. The laboratory currently hosts a Biosafety Level 1 certified wet lab for working with living and electronic media, hosting both wet and dry ‘maker’ processes and materials.

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EV. 7.725

Co-directors: Alice Jarry, Shauna Janssen

The space supports the initial stages of research-creation projects led by faculty in the fine arts that intersect performance and material practices. It aims to mobilize a community of fine-arts faculty undertaking hands-on artistic investigations that require space and time for prototyping and for workshop-based exploration of research methods for performance and material practices. We host micro-residencies for fine-arts faculty researchers, and we foster collaboration and facilitate exchanges between fine-arts faculty, graduate students, and postdocs through salons, guest artists, and talks.


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The Next Generation Cities Institute

Director: Ursula Eicker

Concordia launched the Next-Generation Cities Institute in 2020. The institute harnesses our full spectrum of next-generation cities’ research and uses a holistic approach to transform cities into sustainable, resilient and inclusive communities. It aims to create lasting and meaningful change in urban communities around the world.

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Critical Practices in
Materials and Materiality
alice.jarry@concordia.ca