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Over the past year TISED has continued its outreach efforts, and hosted a series of virtual events, with students, researchers and the community. Hosting these events online, increased accessibility, with recordings of the talks available on TISED’s YouTube channel following the event.

TISEDTalks - Invited Speakers Series

TISEDTalks feature both Canadian and international researchers on relevant topics of sustainability in urban planning, architecture, and engineering; attendance is open to all members of our community, professors, students and public, alike. The goal of TISEDTalks is to provide a forum where TISED members can meet other researchers as well as present their work, all in hopes of fostering potential cross disciplinary collaborations while engaging the broader McGill student and research community and highlighting the cutting-edge work done by our members in the area of sustainability.

TISED held four virtual TISEDTalks during the 2021-2022 academic calendar, with strong participation and engagement from our community. As the resumption of on-campus activities continues, TISED plans to host these events in-person for the 2022-2023 academic year and make them accessible via Zoom for our remote community.

Prof. Tony Walker, Associate Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University, “TISED/ BRACE Seminar: Environmental and health impacts of COVID-19 related plastic waste”, October 2021 (hosted in partnership with The Brace Water Centre).

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Prof. Naomi Keena, Assistant Professor, Peter Guo-Hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University. “TISEDTALK: Circular Economy and the Built Environment: From Housing to Data”, November 2021.

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Prof. Mélanie Tétreault-Friend,, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering at McGill University

“TISEDTalk: Turning on the heat with January 2022.

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Prof. Nik Luka, Assistant Professor, School of Urban Planning, McGill University.

“TISEDTalk: Transcending disciplinary boundaries and policy stovepipes through design: The case of post-suburban densification for resilience”, February 2022.

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8th Annual Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy and Design

The Annual Symposium focuses on the relevance of sustainable engineering and design to people’s lives. Each year TISED and lnstitut de l’Énergie Trottier (IET) at Polytechnique Montréal take turns hosting this event.

On November 4th, 2021, IET in partnership with TISED, hosted the 8th annual Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy, and Design. The event was held virtually.

The 8th Symposium, titled “Energy Objective: Decarbonize while reinventing society” featured two prominent speakers Dr. Julia Steinberger and Dr. Éric Pineault . The presentations were followed by a Q&A period, moderated by Normand Mousseau with questions submitted live by the audience via Twitter and email.

The symposium can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube.