The housing crisis in several cities in Quebec and other Canadian provinces, in the United States and elsewhere in the world, remains one of the triggers that accentuates homelessness, an increasingly visible phenomenon. Often invisibilized by urban strategies such as hostile design or the dismantling of urban camps, homelessness will be at the heart of the exhibition (IN)VISIBLE: Design through the Prism of Homelessness, presented by the UQAM Design Centre. The exhibition is the result of research conducted over two years in collaboration with community organizations and people who have experienced homelessness. It proposes a reflection on how to make visible the spatial claims of homeless people without harming them. This takes shape by borrowing several tools from the fields of design: critical mapping, photovoice, a visual method that uses photography as a voice, participatory design and critical design. These tools draw on various types of experiential, artistic, practical and expert knowledge.
1. Dates
– May 23 to June 16, 2024
2. Venue
– Centre Design de l’UQAM (Montréal – 1440 Rue Sanguinet, Montréal, QC H2X 3X9, Canada)
3. Curator
– Collectif Architecture + Itinérance
4. Participating artists
– The Dehors de dehors
– Alison Grittner
– Caroline Leblanc
– The #OnNeLaissePersonneDerrière (ONLPD) Collective
– Natalia Martini
– Marie-Hélène Mathieu
– Mossy Society & Comm-Un
– Kassandra Reynolds
