Free lecture presented via ZOOM and now available on Heritage Ottawa's YOUTUBE CHANNEL. 

Carleton is one of 14 Canadian universities participating in Quality in Canada’s Built Environment: Roadmaps to Equity, Social Value and Sustainability, a SSHRC Partnership initiative currently stimulating a vital dialogue on how our approach to the built environment can contribute to redefining quality. Heightened equity, increased social value and greater sustainability are all important considerations at this critical moment for our societies and our planet. 

As a community partner in the project, Heritage Ottawa is pleased to present the research of participating graduate students from Carleton University's Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism for this year’s Emerging Scholars Connect event.

In response to the socio-cultural, environmental, and economic benefits of building reuse, the Carleton research team has been developing a nationwide inventory of adaptive reuse projects from the past ten years, starting with Ottawa, to better assess which building typologies may have a better propensity for certain types of conversions, and what facilitates those conversions.

Research chair Professor Mariana Esponda will introduce the study — an extraordinary collaborative effort creating connections between hundreds of students and communities of practice across Canada. Graduate students will introduce some of the findings of the study, along with the benefits and barriers experienced by some of their case studies in Ottawa, along with European comparisons. This research was recently presented to an international audience at As Found: an International Colloquium on Adaptive Reuse in Belgium, and will be the source of further discussion during a Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP) Workroom at the National Trust Conference on October 26, 2023.

SPEAKERS: Mariana Esponda, Melissa Lengies and Dana Mastrangelo.

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