RENDER in collaboration with the Musagetes Foundation launches DodoLab

[Barbara Hobot]

*RENDER in collaboration with the Musagetes Foundation launches DodoLab*

RENDER is very pleased to be collaborating with the Musagetes Foundation on
DodoLab, an experimental, creative research initiative to be launched at the
5th World Environmental Education Congress in Montreal, May 10-14,
2009.  DodoLab
will playfully and imaginatively engage with the congress participants
through a series of related survey-based and participatory projects. The
connected lab projects are designed to record and share participants’ ideas,
to explore diverse approaches and cultural perspectives, and to gage
feelings and emotions at the conference in relation to our environmental
challenges. The lab looks to share possibilities and perspectives, to
explore alternative design methods and solutions, and to engage the WEEC
community in creative participatory activities that will open alternative
avenues of exchange, development and education. This multi-faceted lab will
push an expanded view of the role of design and creativity that embraces
social interaction through experimental, accessible and adaptable
methodologies.

The various projects to be pursued are meant to have an active dynamic
presence at the conference and to produce tangible content presentations
(installations, video, publications, shareables) of use both during and
beyond the conference and that will inspire future initiatives and
collaborations. At heart, the DodoLab asks us to blur boundaries and cross
barriers between communities, disciplines, cultures and generations.
Furthermore, the lab hopes to inspire reflection on complex concepts of
self, home, community and nation in relation to our current environmental
challenges and, in particular, our ability to share knowledge and initiate,
seed and spread meaningful responsive action.

Participating in the DodoLab in Montreal are a team of professional artists,
designers, environmental educators and architects, along with students from
the University of Waterloo and  Ontario College of Art and Design.  Also
participating at WEEC is the team from *rare*, sharing information about
their many programs and initiatives.

*DodoLab Team*

Shawn Van Sluys  (Musagetes Foundation)

Andrew Hunter, Maggie Hunter and Barbara Hobot (RENDER)

Farid Noufaily (architect/artist), Rufina Wu (architect/artist) and Stephen
Wood (Information Architect, Ikoro Digital)

Emily Alfred (Executive Director of Riversides), Chris Flanagan (artist &
DJ), Amos Latteier (artist) and Eileen Finn (landscape architect)

Giles Lane of *proboscis*

Kyrie Vala-Webb & Vanessa Martin (University of Waterloo/Knowledge
Integration)

Majd Al-Shihabi & David Kadish (University of Waterloo/Systems Design)

Catia De Silva (University of Waterloo/Architecture)

Andrew Guaglio (University of Waterloo/Fine Arts)

Kasey Hinton, Carly Anne Mersereau & Marissa Neave (OCAD)



Contacts and links:

www.dodolab.ca

dodolab at gmail.com

www.5weec.uqam.ca

www.render.uwaterloo.ca

www.proboscis.org.uk

www.raresites.org


Best regards,
-- 
Barb Hobot
Curator-in-residence
RENDER
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave W
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
render.uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33575
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