New Orleans Water Work
In February 2025, 4th-year undergraduate students travelled to New Orleans, Louisiana with Professor Bonier in a research studio framed around learning, engagement, and exchange. This studio takes the waters of Southern…
Architecture at all scales is based on understanding and imagining the world in terms that are simultaneously social, environmental, technological, political, cultural, and artistic. Contemporary urban challenges increase the need for creative design thinking that prioritizes human and non-human communities and ecologies.
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Catherine Bonier (co-director)
Ozayr Saloojee (co-director)
Divyashree Macheri Yathiraj (research coordinator)
PAST RESEARCH FELLOWS
Divyashree Macheri Yathiraj (2024-2025)
Dominic Massé (2024-2025)
Julianna Avramidis (2024-2025)
Baljot Jagdev (2023)
Marly Margharious (2022-2023)
Andrea McIntosh (2021-2022)
Ian Dayagbil (Research Coordinator 2018-2021)
Fiki Falola (2019 – 2021)
Felix Mayer (2019 – 2020)
Madelaine Snelgrove (2019 – 2020)
Charles-Étienne Déry (2018 – 2019)
Viktor Ivanovic (2018 – 2019)
Andrea Tamayo-Bernal (2017 – 2018)
All Events
New Orleans travel studio
In February 2025, 4th-year undergraduate students will be traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana with Professor…
Planning for Perth // final review
In December, Professor Bonier’s Urbanism studio completed their research and design work focused on Perth,…
Learning from Perth // site studies
In September of 2024, Professor Bonier’s 3rd-year urbanism students visited Perth Ontario to study…
“Water Works/function and fantasy”
Professor Catherine Bonier presents a lecture titled “Water Works/ function and fantasy” for the Carleton…
‘Permanence in Waiting’
Professor Bonier reflects on the importance of Professor David Leatherbarrow as a mentor and teacher,…
Woven Imaginations: Stories of fluidity and fixity in Southern Coastal Louisiana
Professor Bonier’s essay “Woven Imaginations: Stories of fluidity and fixity in coastal Louisiana” has been…
Disembodied Territories Project
Professor Saloojee was in invited respondent for the Disembodied Territories Project, a collective mapping project…
Professor Saloojee is appointed JAE Associate Editor
Professor Saloojee begins a three year appointment as Associate Editor of Design for the Journal…
Design Research for Uncertain Futures
Professor Saloojee, with Professor Jamie Vanucchi (Landscape Architecture, Cornell University) and Sarah Dooling (Executive Director…
Kerosphere
Professor Saloojee, with co-authors, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon and Dr. Zoe Todd, contributed a chapter titled “Kerosphere,”…
Academic Events
03. Symposia
Summer Cities 2018
SUMMER CITIES 2018 // WORKING WATERFRONTS // FRESHWATER FICTIONS To launch the first annual Summer…
Fluid Infrastructures // c-url Spring Symposium 2017
Ottawa is a river city, and Carleton is a campus shaped by the Rideau River and by the Rideau Canal UNESCO World Heritage Site. To mark the founding of the…
Shifting Frames // Urbanization, Slums, and Cities of the Future
On Friday, February 3rd, the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism and the Canada-India Centre for Excellence (CICE) will host Shifting Frames…
Studio, Seminars and Thesis
Planning for Perth
Southern Louisiana/ Global Waters Studio (2021)
The Cities We Become and Deny (2020)
Deep Dust / Killing Dark (2021)
Deep Dust / Killing Dark (2020)
Story/East: The Miniaturist’s Folio (2020)
M.Arch Studio 1 (2019)
Liquid Cartographies – Publics and Polis (2019)
Urban Edge Studio (Gatineau-Ottawa 2019)
M.Arch Studio (2018)
Adaptive Archipelagos (2018)
The Fraught Landscape: Millenary Sands (2018)
Public and Polis / Liquid Cartographies (2018)
Urban Edge Studio (Ontario-Quebec-Ohio 2018)
M.Arch 1 Studio 1 (2017)
Urban Edge Studio (Ottawa 2017)
C-URL Kits
We host publicly available video tutorials covering essential skills in GIS, 3D Modelling and Visualization as supplemental material for our students.
