In its third and final edition, the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet continues to seek to understand architecture’s varied relationships to the changing material constitution of the light spectrum. The recognition of the manifold meanings and architectural mediations of light, which are becoming only more salient in our era of ecological crises, is common to both the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Window Research Institute. In 2024 we will welcome three CCA-WRI Fellows for periods of research of up to three months, with Fellows turning their attention to the third element in the diffusion of light across our solar societies: between, and the everyday conditions that permeate how light shapes and is shaped by the built environment.
The “between” names a specific set of phenomena that become apparent between the atmosphere and land, ones that reflect the Earth’s condition as a solar-dependent environment. These include, for example, the increasing levels of air pollution across the globe, and how this is becoming a major concern for everyday human activities in towns and cities. The “between” contains the chemical aftereffects of carbon combustion, industrial production, and forest fires. Air pollution thus becomes a phenomenon that generates a range of mitigation practices, from investments in public transit to green industrial technologies more broadly.
Similarly, the between is mediated by the role windows play as apertures through which social, ecological, and political thresholds are navigated across geographic and climatic conditions. The CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program seeks expansive and theoretically ambitious approaches to the “between” that can make out how it is a condition that moves through and connects the scale of the built environment through shared, inhabitable phenomena including air pollution indexes; political and social resistance to the growth of public transit investment; or hurricanes and other major weather events that reconfigure the boundaries between waterways and places of human inhabitation.
The jury members for this edition of the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program are Giovanna Borasi and Rafico Ruiz, who are joined by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Co-Founder of Atelier Bow-Wow/Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology/WRI Board of Directors Member), Daniel Barber (Head of School, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney), and Masatake Shinohara (Associate Professor, The Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University).
Title
Open call for CCA-WRI Research Fellowship 2024Type
Grants, Scholarships & AwardsWebsite
Organizers
Canadian Centre for Architecture + Window Research InstituteRegistration Deadline
October 10, 2023 12:00 AMSubmission Deadline
October 10, 2023 12:00 AMVenue
Canadian Centre for ArchitecturePrice
Free