{"id":5594,"date":"2017-03-17T13:25:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T17:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=5594"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:11:38","slug":"carleton-3mt-2017","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/carleton-3mt-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton 3MT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When Samuel Dubois first considered pursuing his master\u2019s in Architecture<\/a> at Carleton University, he had his mind set on a project about municipal libraries in Quebec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when his supervisor learned he was from the asbestos mining town of Thetford in Quebec, she suggested he focus on his hometown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, Dubois decided to create a utopian district in Thetford, where the last asbestos mine closed in 2012. His project earned him first place (and people\u2019s choice award) at the Carleton 3MT<\/a> competition on March 15, where he impressed a four-judge panel with a three-minute, one-slide presentation of his thesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Samuel Dubois won first place (and people’s choice award) at the Carleton 3MT competition on March 15.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy grandfather worked for 22 years in the asbestos mines,\u201d Dubois said. \u201cNow, I am proposing a design for the scarred landscape, how to reclaim and repurpose the site. I propose to heal the land and ultimately hope to trigger a new sense of identity for the people of Thetford.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His project would cover a two-kilometre area and include housing, public institutions and park space while bridging two neighbourhoods separated by mine extraction sites.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s speculative,\u201d Dubois said, \u201cbut I went to Thetford last fall and met with people at city hall and they were very receptive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The 3MT, developed by the University of Queensland<\/a> in Australia and now held at universities worldwide, has been an annual event at Carleton since 2013. It celebrates graduate student research and challenges participants to communicate the key concepts of their work in an engaging presentation of three minutes or less.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Carleton 3MT Presents
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Dubois, who will go on to the provincial competition in Waterloo in April, said participating in the 3MT competition was not only a good way to resynthesize his project and practise for his upcoming final defence this spring, but also a personal challenge to perfect his English, as his first language is French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He receives a $1,000 prize and another $250 for pulling in the people\u2019s choice award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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