Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019 |
| Time: | 6:30 pm — 7:30 pm |
| Location: | Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank Street |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Cost: | free |
| Contact: | Engineering Events, engineering.events@carleton.ca, 613-520-2600 Ext. 1184 |
Lecture Abstract
A series of recent community-based sculptural and architectural installations will be presented from Professor Manuel Báez’s research and his research-based Crossings Interdisciplinary Workshop. His Diluvio series of installations are part of Cinquecento: Carleton Celebrates Leonardo da Vinci and feature the work of students inspired by the insights and reflections of Leonardo. Urban Interventions at the Canada Science and Technology Museum and Ottawa’s ByWard Market have engaged and inspired the local community through interactive and participatory projects. As part of the Gathering Circles design-build initiative, The Gather-Ring was the winning design in 2017 for the Heritage Canada national Canada 150 Dream competition, featuring a contemplative and reflective pavilion on the Portage Bridge overlooking Parliament Hill, Victoria Island and the Ottawa River.
Professor Manuel Baez Speaker Bio
Associate Professor Manuel A. Báez has been at the Carleton University Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism since January of 2001. Previously, he taught in the United States at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City and Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. His work as an architect, artist and researcher draws inspiration from the generative potential of the forms, structures and integrative systems generated by elemental processes that exist throughout the natural environment. He has extensively exhibited and lectured in various international conferences and institutions. Professor Báez is one of the founding members of Cinquecento: Carleton Celebrates Leonardo da Vinci, the 2019 year-long initiative commemorating the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death in 1519. The eminent Leonardo scholar Martin Kemp has featured Báez’s research in his 2016 book Structural Intuitions: Seeing Shapes in Art and Science. In 2017, as part of Canada 150, Báez’s proposal The Gather-Ring won the national competition held by Canadian Heritage’s Art in the Capital Program. In 2014, The Light Keeper permanent ceiling installation at Carleton’s Ojigkwanong Centre was designed and built by Báez along with architecture students and in consultation with the centre’s architect, Douglas Cardinal. In 2012, he was the inaugural speaker for CreativeMornings Ottawa and a guest speaker at TEDxCarletonU in 2010. His work was also honoured with a 2005 Research Achievement Award from Carleton University. The research has been supported by such agencies and institutions as the Canada Council for the Arts, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canada Science and Technology Museum, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art and Carleton University. Báez received his B. Arch. Degree from The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union and his M. Arch. Degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He is a licensed architect in New York State.
About the Series: Ingenious Talks is a special speaker series from the Faculty of Engineering and Design that engages the community in discussions of timely and innovative ideas in engineering, design and technology.
No registration necessary. If you wish to inform us of your attendance, or have any questions, kindly contact engineering.events@carleton.ca