Social Innovation: Beyond a Buzzword

• Julie Chateauvert and Philippe Dufort, co-directors of CRITS 
• William-Jacomo Beauchemin, Lab Instructor of social innovation, Exeko.

An interactive art installation to pay homage to the Ottawa River Watershed + the Waters we love.

InterconnectedWatershed explores the power and presence of water — past, present, and future. This interdisciplinary, inteactive art installation draws on local and regional experiences with hydropower, watersheds, water bodies, dams, and water flows — from Almonte to Maniwaki. The exhibit features Emily Rose Michaud’s soundscape, made to accompany the work, which is layered with the sounds of water, Gaelic folk song, social and political speech, and music from Esmerine’s atmospheric melodies.

Each participant will be invited to draw a body of water they love on a cedar tile which will be added to the floor installation over 500 pieces from people of diverse communities in the Ottawa River watershed region. Tiles are arranged into a mosaic in which the water lines flow into one another.

Ain’t we teachers? Decentralizing our academic practice from research to emancipatory pedagogy

with
Philippe Dufort and Anahi Morales Hudon
Professors, Saint-Paul University

Learning to manage social innovation? Experience in the theatre of the oppressed at HEC

with
Chantale Mailhot and Marc D. Lachapelle
Professor and lecturer, HEC Montréal

Is Knowledge Power? Self-Knowledge, Empathy and Social Responsibility

with
Bianca Briciu
Lecturer, Saint-Paul University and Carleton University, Founder of Emotional Balance

Social innovation as an activist space

Yves-Marie Abraham, Professor, HEC Montréal

Small-group  workshops will follow.

Social innovation and digital liberation projects

with

• Charlotte Rautureau and Julien Bellanger, Association PiNG, Nantes
• Sophie Toupin, FemHack and Université McGill
• Alejandro Mayoral Baños, Indigenous Friends Association
• Stéphane Couture, York University.

Workshop 1 : Questioning the Procurement and Investment Readiness Fund (PIRF)

Philippa Weins, Senior Program Manager, PIRF, and Ethel Côté, MécènESS.

Workshop 2 : How can Philanthropy be transformed?

 Jon McPhedran Waitzer, Resource Movement and Shereen Munshi, The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples

Overcoming neoliberal social innovation: between philanthropic-capitalism and emancipatory project

with
Jonathan Durand-Folco, Saint-Paul University

Small-group  workshops will follow.

Building Transformative Movements

with

• Clayton Thomas-Muller, Stop at the source campaigner, 350.org.
• Harsha Walia, activist and author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
  Moderated by Amanda Wilson, Saint-Paul University

Social innovation and neoliberal environmentalism in the Anthropocene era: for a socio-ecological problematization of social innovation

with
Martin Samson, Saint-Paul University

with
Mathieu Dufour-Perron, Université du Québec en Outaouais

Montréal-Nord: epicentre of social innovation in Quebec’s metropolis ?

with
Bochra Manaï, Parole d’ExcluEs
and Steves Boussiki, Table de Quartier de Montréal-Nord

Chimeda and InterconnectedWatershed, research-creation in communities

with
Emily Rose Michaud, artist and educator

with

• Isabelle Ruelland, Université de Montréal
• Mathieu Couture , HEC
• Geneviève Proulx-Masson, HEC
• Erin Mackie, S4ES

Presented by Martin Blais, Simon Tremblay-Pepin and Jamel Stambouli, Saint-Paul University