Building 21

Meet Fall 2020 BLUE Intern Dajou Cottrell. Dajou graduated from McGill in 2020 with a B.A in Anthropology. Dajou’s project was inspired from her passion for preserving cultural traditions and the history of the African Diaspora. Her research paper titled Semiotics of Resistance, Land Rights, Displacement and the Cultural Cryptography of Hair, examines, how cultural codes displayed on the body can serve as a form of resistance. Using an intersectional lens of (resistance theory, land issues, cartography, and cultural identity) Dajou is attempting recant and share culturally fused movements of resistance within Afro-Colombian culture.

The Radical Futures Project, conceived in the Spring of 2019 at McGill University's Building 21, seeks to explore what it means to alter the means by which we may imagine the future. This two-part podcast episode recounts the activities of the project, including interviews with science fiction writers, scientists, philosophers, anthropologists and philanthropologists; creative writing exercises; and an exploratory seminar that was ultimately interrupted by the ultimate Radica...l Injunction: the global pandemic which has arguably altered our relation to the future forever. As a retrospective piece, this broadcast traces a through-line across the project's myriad voices and formats. Voices include Damián Arteca, Ollivier Dyens, Jonathan Ledgard, Alexander Weinstein, Ed Finn, Amit Ben-Eliyahu, David 'Jhave' Jhonston, Rebecca Brosseau and Khando Langri. Find us on Apple + Google Podcast. More on the Radical Futures Project at https://building21.ca/radical-futures-2

Listen in to the introduction of the Radical Futures project, presented as an interview with project Co-Leads Damian Arteca and Prof. Ollivier Dyens and hosted by Rebecca Brosseau. Ollivier details the history and founding of McGill University’s Building 21, and the motivation behind the Radical Futures initiative. Inspired by a desire to re-invent the way in which we interact with the future, Radical Futures aims to reimagine tomorrow not as a static ground towards which we fall, but rather as a field of potential constrained only by our modes of thought and action. https://podcasts.apple.com//introduction-to-/id1539328434

We now have our own podcast channel! Google podcast https://podcasts.google.com//aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY

We now have our own podcast channel! Apple podcast https://podcasts.apple.com//mcgills-building-/id1539328434