WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

On Tuesday, August 6, 2024, the Window Research Institute, in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), held the symposium “Energy Always” at the CCA, which was also streamed online.

The symposium marked the final year of the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program 2022–2024, developed under the theme “Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet.” In 2024, the program focused on “Between,” examining light as part of the changing material and environmental relations between atmosphere, land, and architecture.

Under this theme, the three research fellows presented projects that traced how photographic production, temporary power infrastructure, and salt production register broader material, environmental, and territorial transformations.

2024 CCA–WRI Research Fellows and Projects:

Emily Doucet (McGill University)
“Mediating Light: The Architectures of Photographic Production“

Gökçe Günel (Rice University)
“All of the Above: A Global Future of Energy“

Yosuke Nakamoto (ETH Zürich)
“Salt and Land: Shifting Territories of the Salt Production Sites in the Seto Inland Sea“

Following the fellows’ presentations, advisory board members Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Daniel A. Barber, and Masatake Shinohara, together with representatives from the CCA and the Window Research Institute, joined a discussion reflecting on the presentations.

The archived video of the symposium is available on the CCA website.