Events

Here are the CRITS events and activities that will take place during the winter and spring of 2023. The list will be updated during the session. January 31, 2023, 12:00-1:30 pm: Détournement et décentrement en recherche-création. With Mathilde Forest and Mattia Scarpulla, online. Facebook event. February 16, 2023, 12:00-1:30 pm: Rêve d’un logique sans pauvreté….

On November 3 and 4, 2022, the Research Centre on Social Innovations and Transformations will hold its fourth annual conference: Knowledge Engaged in Social Transformation: Opportunities and Challenges. This event seeks to promote the decompartmentalization of practical, theoretical and experiential knowledge through four axes: knowledge construction and sharing, methodological challenges and issues, pedagogies and engagement…

This symposium aims to create a venue for dialogue to discuss the limits of some theoretical approaches and bring out new critical perspectives by taking into consideration contemporary issues such as violence, discrimination, transformations of health, education, social systems, etc. How should we make sense of these times? How can critique help us resist commonly…

Movements CRITS Student Symposium April 19, 2022. 1:30 – 5:00 PM Online on Zoom Description: Movements are at the heart of social innovation. Social, collective and human movements. Movements of contestation, of transformation, but also of preservation and resistance. Anchored in the practice, the daily life, the imagination. Movements are sometimes displacements, undergone or wished,…

Engaging knowledge in social transformation: opportunities and challenges Call for proposals 4th Annual CRITS Conference November 3 and 4, 2022 Saint Paul University, Ottawa The Research Center on Social Transformation and Innovation (CRITS) is launching a call for proposals for the fourth edition of its annual conference. In a world facing numerous social, economic, cultural…

From social inequalities to the narrowing of democratic life and the rise of authoritarianism, the pandemic is pushing us to think critically. Yet spaces for reflection have shrunk due to health restrictions. With this series of webinars, the Research Centre on Social Innovations and Transformations (CRITS) is creating a space open to all to discuss…

Nous sommes à la recherche de participant.e.s provenant des membres de la communauté francophone en situation minoritaire du Vieil Ottawa-Est et des autres quartiers de la ville, incluant bien sûr les résident.e.s francophones dans toute leur diversité, mais aussi les résident.e.s anglophones et allophones francophiles. Nous offrons des ateliers gratuits, de DEUX JOURS aux participant.e.s….

Animer la prise de décision par consensus ou consentement La recherche de consensus est souvent mise de l’avant au sein des processus collectifs horizontaux (non hiérarchiques). En souhaitant rallier une pluralité de points de vue, ce mode de décision nous promet une plus grande implication de tous et chacune dans la délibération ainsi que dans…

Communication consciente pour un travail d’équipe bienveillant Basé sur l’approche de la communication non-violente (CNV), cet atelier invite à infuser de l’empathie et de la conscience dans nos pratiques d’animation de groupe. Quelle est l’intention derrière telle techniques d’animation ou telle intervention d’une participant.e? Quels besoins provoquent cette conversation collective? Quelles émotions orientent la communication…