{"id":4323,"date":"2025-02-11T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?page_id=4323"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:43:29","slug":"february-27-beyond-extraction-with-christopher-alton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/february-27-beyond-extraction-with-christopher-alton\/","title":{"rendered":"February 27: “Beyond Extraction” with Christopher Alton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Designer and research Christopher Alton will join us on February 27 to discuss Beyond Extraction,\u00a0<\/em>a collective of researchers, writers, artists, and activists, from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, who have come together to critically investigate and resist Extraction in its various forms. They seek to create venues and platforms for the voices, stories, struggles, and techniques that confront the imperial promises of industry and extractive modes of social organization.<\/p>\n

Speaker: Christopher Alton<\/strong>\u00a0is a designer and researcher with a focus on mine afterlives and critical conservation related to mining, interested in how territories are communicated and transformed across and through extractive infrastructures and landscapes. As a PhD candidate at Waterloo University, he is developing a historiography of Canadian land use planning through the lens of material movement, and he has taught courses at Waterloo, Toronto Metropolitan University, and with the Centre for Biocultural Landscape and Seascape (CBLS). With OPSYS Landscape Infrastructure Lab, he was project manager and lead researcher for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture. He is a co-founder of the Beyond Extraction collective.<\/p>\n\n

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