The CIRM joins the movement
CIRM is proud to announce that two of its projects join the Je fais Montréal movement : the Urban Living Challenge and La faim et ses moyens : des récits à l'action citoyenne!Selected among over 250 applications, they have been included in the list of
Survey on the location of work activities
Where does work take place?Economists, planners and city managers rely on the assumption that it takes place in offices and other buildings dedicated to economic activity, and in neighbourhoods likewise dedicated to economic activity.
Memorandum of Understanding between the CIRM, the Agirre Lehendekaria Center and the Etxepare Basque Institute
Memorandum of Understanding between the CIRM, the Agirre Lehendekaria Center and the Etxepare Basque Institute
Call for applications: Canada Research Chair in Social Innovation in the Urban Context
Call for applications: Canada Research Chair in Social Innovation in the Urban ContextThe Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM) at McGill University invites applications for a Canada Research Chair in Social Innovation in the Urban Context. The position will be at the level of Associate Professor or Professor and the successful candidate will be associated with a department in the Faculty of Arts.
Montreal's Application to the Smart Cities Challenge
« Face aux grands enjeux de mobilité et d’accessibilité aux services, la Ville de Montréal a décidé de miser sur l’intelligence collective et la collaboration pour faire émerger des solutions tangibles, se basant sur le dynamisme de sa vie de quartier. » - Valérie Plante, Mayor of Montreal
Shaping Neighborhoods: Experience and Innovation
A In Situ series of "conference-experiences" on Montreal
Starting in April, CIRM and the Quartier de l’innovation invite you to participate in a series focusing on local urban innovation initiatives!
Gorka Espiau's Winter Seminar (Professor of Practice of the McConnell Foundation)
This 2018 Winter semester, CIRM’s Professor of Practice of the McConnell Foundation, Gorka Espiau, will be teaching a seminar – URBP 542 New Social Innovation Dynamics – at the School of Urban Planning of McGill University.
The one credit seminar will be held January 16th, 18th, 22nd and 23rd 2018, from 6:05 to 8:55 p.m.:
"Vivre ensemble à Montréal. Épreuves et convivialités": CIRM's First Publication
To celebrate Montreal’s 375th anniversary, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal wanted to examine the mechanisms and processes that have made it possible, in the history of the city, to maintain a relative social peace.
Imagining the cities of the future through a better understanding of Montreal today
BMO Financial Group and McConnell Fo
Montreal and Quebec Studies Lose a Great Ambassador
The CIRM and the McGill’s Quebec Studies Program learned with great sorrow of the passing of McGill’s Chancellor Emerita Gretta Chambers. Dear friend of CIRM and the Quebec Studies Program, she is one of those who supported the creation of the first research group dedicated to Montreal studies, at McGill, in 2012.
Soon to be published : « Vivre ensemble à Montréal »
In 2015, Montreal was the host of the Living Together Summit. For Montreal’s 375th anniversary, the CIRM wanted to examine the mechanisms and processes that have made it possible, in the history of the city, to maintain a relative social peace. The collective work emerging from those reflections will not provide solutions to actual conflicts; it will not give any lessons and will in no way offer a hymn to “living together”.
Gorka Espiau : Professor of Practice 2017-2018
It is with great pleasure that the CIRM welcomes, for a second consecutive year, Mr. Gorka Espiau as Professor of practice of the McConnell Foundation Program.
CIRM : Official Research Center of McGill University
Since 2014, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal has had the standing of a provisional center of the Faculty of Arts of McGill University. On May 25th this year, following a one-year evaluation process, the Senate of McGill University granted the CIRM the status of a permanent research center.
