Screenplay Workshop, Montréal Event, Installation, Public Art, Canadian Landscape Architecture, QC Urban Building Photos
Screenplay Workshop in Montréal
1 Jul 2021
Design: Jean Verville PhD Architecte and Professeur + DES7029 UQAM + Tania Paula Garza Rico + Maxime Brouillet
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Screenplay Workshop
Invited by the UQÀM School of Design to present an intensive 10-day workshop, architect Jean Verville, professor at the School of Architecture at Université Laval, offers a collaborative work gamification laboratory.

Exploring the notion of an event as a means of activating a reappropriation of the deserted city, but also of demonstrating the interdependence of individuals and their participatory responsibility, Verville introduces students to a method tracing his professional process, from ideation to realization and to diffusion.
As the professor and his special guests submit themselves to various challenges to activate the production of heuristic tools, the students develop a repertoire of more than 5,000 shapes, collages, models, materials, details, and lexicons, without justification of origin, meaning, or possible interpretations.

Brought together in a protean collective repertoire in the service of individual appropriation, this assemblage enables everyone to verify observations, claim intuitions, and provoke fantasies. Collectively, the group determines a simple performative device, quick and economical to manufacture, which wil...