Little Burgundy Narratives:  a case study of church repurposing, technology, arts, and civic commons

Eleonora Diamanti; Kaj Huddart; Michael Jemtrud

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6349

Little Burgundy Narratives: a case study of church repurposing, technology, arts, and civic commons

Authors

Eleonora Diamanti McGill University
Eleonora Diamanti is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban Humanities at McGill University’s School of Architecture, and holds a doctorate in Semiotics from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Her research interests focus on urban culture, the festivalization and aestheticization of contemporary cities, media and ecology, and research-creation.
Kaj Huddart McGill University
Kaj Huddart is a research assistant at FARMM. He holds a B. Arts in Urban Studies and his interests span architecture, urban design, history and culture.
Michael Jemtrud McGill University
Michael Jemtrud is an Associate Professor of Architecture at McGill University. He is the former Director of the School of Architecture at McGill (2007-11) and Founding Director of two award-winning research labs: the Facility for Architectural Research in Media and Mediation (2007-current) and the Carleton Immersive Media Studio (2001-07, Ottawa). His research focuses on redefining the contemporary understanding of technics relative to the models and productive metaphors by which we imaginatively reconfigure the world from the computational and fabricative to the emergent and environmental.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6349

Keywords:

Places of worship, Civic commons, Virtual reality, Montreal, Canada

Abstract

This paper focuses on the specific case study of the Church of St. Joseph, a parish church situated in the neighborhood of Little Burgundy in the South-West borough of Montreal. It addresses first the historical arc that has led to the church’s repurposing before discussing the specific intervention of Little Burgundy Narratives, a digital portrait of the neighborhood surrounding the former Church of St. Joseph in an effort to support its new role as a community space, harnessing technology and the arts to enhance the church’s value as a civic common. The former Church St. Joseph is a witness of the growing disuse and re-purpose of places of worship and is a relevant case-study for the understanding of the future of churches in urban areas.

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Published

2017-07-31

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Diamanti, E., Huddart, K., & Jemtrud, M. (2016). Little Burgundy Narratives: a case study of church repurposing, technology, arts, and civic commons. IN_BO. Ricerche E Progetti Per Il Territorio, La Città E l’architettura, 7(10), 68–80. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6349

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Vol. 7 No. 10 (2016): THE FUTURE OF CHURCHES: THEMES

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Architecture and research

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