RAIC CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE 2022 JUNE 13 ONLINE Andrew King, Angela Silver
Place des Montréalaises 21 Women: re calibrating public space for inclusion and social equity
“21 WOMEN explores the role architecture, art, and design have in re-framing and re-defining history. La Place des Montréalaises pays tribute to the varied historical contributions of women in Montreal’s evolution. Poetically merging architecture, landscape design and art methodologies the project creates a series of moments in homage to female pioneers, transforming the site from its former use as a highway into a perennial meadow, simultaneously defining the horizon and framing Montreal’s City Hall. The new urban space is a generative and restorative topography drawing on Montréal’s collective memory. Design leader Andrew King and conceptual artist Angela Silver bring the experience of their 30-year trans-disciplinary practice to frame the winning proposition for the international urban space design competition. The image-rich presentation will explore trans-disciplinary research methodologies: architecture, art and landscape architecture converge in a critically driven design process, that can expand the conceptual design process. Powerful and clear formal strategies, academic research, environmental resilience and user experience are threads that form the design armature. Angela Silver’s powerful creation methodologies add a key layer to the project’s resonance.”