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CIRM welcomes two new members
Published: 5 July 2019
CIRM is pleased to announce the addition of two new members: Guillaume 脡thier (UQAM) and Matthew Claudel (MIT)!
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Guillaume 脡thier
Guillaume Ethier is Professor of theories of the city and听space-society relations in the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at UQAM. He is interested in contemporary urban forms as reflections of society. In addition to two postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Edinburgh and 平特五不中, he has completed a doctoral dissertation awarded with Phyllis Lambert Prize (thesis of the year on the study of architecture in Canada) and Jean-Pierre-Collin Award (thesis of the year in urban studies of the network Villes R茅gions Monde). In recent years, he has published the book Architecture iconique : les le莽ons de Toronto (PUQ, 2015) and edited the collective work The Spectacle of Heritage (PUQ, 2017). For a number of years, he has been involved in placemaking in Montreal, notably with the organization La P茅pini猫re Espaces collectifs, for which he has been leading since 2018 a vast project to study the impact of its actions. He is also interested in urban changes in the digital era, a topic discussed in a forthcoming essay, La ville analogique.
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Matthew Claudel
Matthew Claudel is a designer, researcher and writer. He co-founded MIT鈥檚 designX program, where he is the Head of Civic Innovation. Matthew has co-authored two books, Open Source Architecture and The City of Tomorrow听as well as dozens of articles and chapters. Matthew is a fellow with the McConnell Foundation鈥檚 鈥淐ities for People鈥� initiative, and served on the jury for Canada鈥檚 national Smart City Challenge. He is a protagonist of Hans Ulrich Obrist鈥檚 89plus global community of artists. In 2018, Matthew received a Public Policy Fellowship from the Rappaport Foundation to work with the Boston Mayor鈥檚 Office of New Urban Mechanics on strategies for enabling place-based innovation and experimenting with civic technology. He studied architecture at Yale, and received a Masters of Science in Urban Studies from MIT, where he is currently writing his doctoral dissertation on civic innovation systems.
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