?milie Pinard
Biography
Emilie Pinard is an Associate Professor at the McEwen School of Architecture where she teaches Design Studio and?Cultural Sustainability courses. She?holds a Master of Architecture Degree and a Doctorate in Architecture and Anthropology from Universit¨¦ Laval. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg. Emilie¡¯s work and teaching experience focus on people-environment relationships, housing, informality and collaborative architecture. She is?conducting research?on the role of vernacular and ¡°popular¡± building know-how and practices in contemporary architecture. With the Habitats + Cultures Group from Universit¨¦ Laval, Emilie worked on different design and research initiatives conducted in collaboration with members of the Innu communities of Nitassinan and Inuit of Nunavik. She is?a co-researcher in the?Living in Northern Quebec: Mobilizing, Understanding, Imagining an Interdisciplinary Research Partnership (), which has as its research subject the culturally appropriate and sustainable planning of Innu and Inuit habitats.?
Education
Ph.D.?Architecture and Anthropology, Universit¨¦ Laval
M.Sc.?Architecture
M.Arch.
Research
Housing , gender?and space, collaborative research-design?practices, informality and urban planning in the Global South, vernacular architecture
I am currently conducting research in the context of the following projects:
Construire sur les traditions : savoir-faire et innovation dans l¡¯architecture vernaculaire au S¨¦n¨¦gal et en Guin¨¦e-Bissau (2018-2023)
L¡¯objectif principal de ce projet est d¡¯¨¦tudier les savoir-faire et connaissances pratiques li¨¦es ¨¤ la construction vernaculaire en Afrique de l¡¯Ouest et leur contribution actuelle et potentielle pour la pratique et la recherche architecturales contemporaines. L¡¯importance croissante accord¨¦e au d¨¦veloppement durable?a induit, ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦chelle mondiale, un int¨¦r¨ºt renouvel¨¦ pour l¡¯utilisation de mat¨¦riaux locaux et renouvelables.?Ce projet sugg¨¨re qu¡¯il est n¨¦cessaire de se pencher sur la mani¨¨re dont les savoir-faire et les connaissances li¨¦s ¨¤ la conception et ¨¤ la construction dans ces contextes sont h¨¦rit¨¦s, transmis et adapt¨¦s afin d¡¯¨¦valuer les impacts r¨¦els des innovations d¨¦velopp¨¦es.
This project aims to study the know-how and practical knowledge related to vernacular construction in West Africa and its current and potential contribution to architectural research and practice. The importance of sustainable development has led to a growing interest worldwide for the use of local and renewable materials and artisanal techniques. This project suggests that is it imperative to understand how the local and vernacular building know-how is inherited, shared and adapted in these contexts, in order to assess the social and cultural impacts of such innovations.
Apprendre du territoire : mobilisation et conception en collaboration d'un centre de transmission de la culture innue (2018-2022)
Ce projet vise ¨¤ d¨¦velopper un ensemble d'outils programmatiques, de visions et de dessins?architecturaux pour le d¨¦veloppement d'un centre de transmission de la culture innue destin¨¦ aux jeunes, qui favorise l'exp¨¦rience directe et la relation avec le territoire, le Nitassinan.?Ces propositions ont pour but d'¨¦clairer la prise de d¨¦cision des intervenants dans le domaine de la planification, de l'¨¦ducation et de la culture avec lesquels travaille au quotidien ITUM (Conseil de bande Innu Takuaikan Uashat mak Mani-Utenam), partenaire de ce projet.
Living in Northern Quebec :Mobilizing, Understanding, Imagining (2015-2020)
This project has as its research subject the culturally appropriate and sustainable planning of Innu and Inuit habitats. It tackles northern housing in all its complexity, by examining the three dimensions that provide structure and meaning, and direct its development: communities, living environments and governance. The project is based on the hypothesis that a collaborative strategy among people with different knowledge can expand perspectives about how to look at the issue (understanding/integrating), about the variety of solutions that could be adopted (imagine/conceive), and about learning and adapting practices (mobilize/value).??
Awards
2020 UNESCO Chair
2018? Insight Development Grant (SSHRC)
2018? Partnership Engage Grant (SSHRC)
2015? Partnership Grant (SSHRC) - Co-researcher
2014??Postdoctoral Fellowship ¨C Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
2012??Doctoral Research Award ¨C International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
2009 ?Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral?Scholarship ¨C Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
2009 ?Doctoral?Scholarship ¨C Fonds qu¨¦b¨¦cois de recherche, soci¨¦t¨¦ et culture (FQRSC)
2008??ECOPOLIS Graduate Research and Design Award ¨C International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Teaching
Cultural Sustainability (ARCH 4016)
Community Building Studio (ARCH 5515)
Thesis (ARCH 5555 and 5565)
Past:
Northern Buildings Studio (ARCH 3505 and 3515)
Integrated Design Studio (ARCH 4505 and 4015)
Publications
Blais, M. et Pinard, E. (2021) Introduction ¨C Construire et habiter l¡¯Inuit Nunangat / Building and Dwelling in Inuit Nunangat. ?tudes Inuit Studies, 44(1-2): 11-36.
Pinard, E. (2021) The consolidation of ¡®traditional villages¡¯ in Pikine, Senegal: Negotiating legitimacy, control and access to peri-urban land. African Studies, 80(2): 172-189.
Pich¨¦, D. & Pinard, E. (2019) Genre, villes et d¨¦veloppement : regard sur l¡¯Afrique subsaharienne, in Levy, C. & Martinez, A. (¨¦ds.) Genre, f¨¦minismes et d¨¦veloppement international : une trilogie en construction. Presses de l¡¯Universit¨¦ d¡¯Ottawa, 367-391.
Vachon & al.(2017) Vers des visions partag¨¦es: des outils visuels pour l'am¨¦nagement durable des communaut¨¦s innues de la Cote-Nord. Recherches am¨¦rindiennes du Qu¨¦bec, 48(1): 121-136.
Pinard, E. (2016) Les femmes propri¨¦taires ¨¤ Pikine, S¨¦n¨¦gal: entre nouvelles responsabilit¨¦s familiales et d¨¦sir d¡¯autonomie. Recherches f¨¦ministes, 29(2)?: 43-62.
Pinard, E. (2016) From courtyard houses to villas: The incremental transformation of Dakar¡¯s urban landscape. Open House International, 41(2)?: 15-22.?
Pinard E. (2015) Empirical knowledge and alternative built environment practices. A research through design process to support self-managed housing production in Maputo. Who wins and who loses? Exploring and learning from transformations and actors in the cities of the South, Dortmund: Technical University Berlin / Dortmund University.
Pinard, E. (2012) Participatory Transformation of the Women¡¯s Centre of Malika (Senegal): Strategies for the Development of a Productive Ecosystem in the Periurban Context. In Robertson, M. (ed.) Sustainable Cities: Local solutions in the Global South, Bourton-on-Dunsmore, GB: Practical Action, 65-80.