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Research Centre on the Future of Cities

The Centre offers a unique interdisciplinary research environment in Canada, to address the pressing challenges of the 21st century by tackling the relationship between the transformation of cities, the climate and social crisis, and the Anthropocene.
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Feb 19 to Feb 20

RCFC's Experimental Doctoral School

This event, designed by and for doctoral students, offers two days of interactive workshops and discussions on the ethical, epistemological, and metho…

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Nov 5

Urban Anthropocene and Habitability of Cities

The event is hosted by the Research Centre on the Future of Cities in collaboration with the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue and the Office for Researc…

Rethinking Our Futures
Oct 15

Rethinking Our Futures in an Age of Planetary Crisis

Join us for a conversation exploring how cities, technology, and media can create better possibilities and help reimagine our futures in an age of cri…

Our research axes

Sea Urchin
Recent Publication

Fishing amongst industrial ghosts: The challenges of green sea urchin diversifi…

Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis' latest article for the Canadian Food Studies journal.
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Media intervention

S’imprégner de la nature québécoise en tant que femme immigrante

Ici Radio-Canada article featuring postdoctoral fellow Nakeyah Giroux-Works' project on diversity and accessibility in the outdoors.
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Recent Publication

Anthropologie végétale

Postdoctoral fellow Nakeyah Giroux-Works' new entry for Anthropen, the francophone dictionary of anthropology.
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Research Centre on the Future of Cities

Faculty of Social Sciences
120 University Private
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5

crfv-rcfc@uOttawa.ca
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