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this week “Dialogue in the Dark” at the Juste Pour Rire News Students in Alberta vote to withdraw from CFS. Page 4
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The room is p itch b la ck . Eleven pairs of fum bling hands grope w a lls , o b jects and each other. No, it’s not Friday night at D iS a lv io ’ s, i t ’ s T u esd ay and w e ’ re at the M usée Juste Pour Rire’ s exhibition “Dialogue in the Dark”. “W hen did yo u lo se yo u r sig h t?” a w om an’ s voice asks. Michael Killey, our guide and co ordinator for the show, answers our q u estio n s p a tie n tly as we struggle to learn about the condi tion of blindness, not ju st for a half hour tour, but for life. “Dialogue in the Dark” is an international project that started in G erm an y, m oved through Europe, and is now attracting a lot of attention throughout North America. Its German creator, Andreas H einecke, used to work for the Frankfurt Institute for the Blind. “ [H ein ecke] cam e up w ith the id e a and he w as p u ttin g together a promotional team and he grabbed me from the Brussels
g ro u p ...a n d th a t’ s how I got involved,” Killey explains. Part of the r a is o n d ’ê t r e of the show is to e lu c id a te how blindness can lead to the develop ment of other senses and result in a different way of perceiving the world. “W e listen more in ten sely because w e’ re not distracted by the visual stuff...It’s an advantage because you don’t make ju d g e ments about people based on their w h o le ap p earan ce or other things.” “I function mostly with my ears,” explains Killey. “When I’m walking, I’m getting all my direc tional information from my ears. I’m just using my cane to pickup sidewalks or objects that I might bump into. But if I’m using my ears right and I’m following the traffic right a lot of that stuff gets moved to the side.” In fact, all through the tour, our group was completely reliant on the sound of M ichael’ s voice, [ guidin g us through a garden, a J Continued on Page 21 »
Building on an honours thesis: Moshe Safdie B y Jo n O 'B rien
tem,” became Habitat ‘67. In November 1990, architec Imagine you’re an architecture ture critic Witold Rybczynski wrote student and a company actually in the N ew York Times, “Montreal builds your honours thesis. Then has several outstanding buildings, im agine yourself 30 years later, but unlike any other Canadian city, reading a New York Tim es architec it also has at least one work that has ture review that claimed your build become known internationally and ing was one of the best in Montreal. whose place in the history of archi This is Moshe Safdie’s reality. tecture is assured. I am referring to Over three decades later, the Habitat, which was designed by McGill-Queen’ s University Press Moshe Safdie and built as part of will publish a book celebrating over Expo, the world’ s fair which the 100,000 pieces of his works, due city was host to in 1967.” out this spring. Habitat ‘67 is still inhabited, Safdie, while studying archi lyin g on the banks of the Saint tecture at McGill in the early 1960s, Laurent between the Lachine Canal became interested in public housing and Ile Sainte-Hélène. and concentrated his honours thesis Safdie, building on this early on the topic. With time and a few success, has gone on to design the major changes, the thesis, “A three- new wing of the Montreal Museum dimensonal modular building sys of Fine Arts, the National Gallery
of C anada in O ttaw a, and the Vancouver Public Library, to list only a few of his Canadian projects. Safdie has offices in Montreal, Toronto, Boston and Jerusalem. An international architect, Safdie has designed buildings in Asia, Europe, North A m erica and the M iddle East. Following the success of the M cG ill grad uate, the C anadian Architecture Collection of McGill requested that Safdie begin devel oping an archive at McGill in the 1980s. In 1990, the archive began col lecting drawings, slides, models, photographs and sketchbooks that documented Safdie’s projects.
“None of us realised how big the arch ive w as,” said Irena Murray, the Safdie Project Director at M cG ill. “When the first two shipments of Safdie’s works arrived and we counted the drawings, we immediately were in over 100,000 drawings, and this didn’t count the slides, the models, the photographs, the project files...It is by far the largest archive that we have.” To m anage the arch ives, Murray requested funding from the federal government, which provid ed the collection with a grant on the grounds that a book be published and that an exh ib itio n of the Continued on Page 15 »
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