{"id":9257,"date":"2019-11-21T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:59:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T15:59:27","slug":"the-future-fix-podcast-inclusion-and-a-new-smart-campus-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2019\/11\/21\/the-future-fix-podcast-inclusion-and-a-new-smart-campus-in-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Fix Podcast: Inclusion and a new “smart” campus in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spacing<\/em> and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada<\/strong>, a special podcast series. Three of the ten podcasts are broadcast in French.<\/p>\n

Spacing et Evergreen pr\u00e9sentent ensemble une nouvelle s\u00e9rie de podcast, Face au futur : des solutions pour les communaut\u00e9s du Canada, d’une c\u00f4te \u00e0 l’autre<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

CET \u00c9PISODE: Montr\u00e9al : Le travail d’inclusivit\u00e9 d’un nouveau campus \u00abintelligent\u00bb<\/span><\/h3>\n

Dans cet \u00e9pisode, nous avons voulu r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir \u00e0 la fa\u00e7on dont le monde acad\u00e9mique pourrait s’ins\u00e9rer dans le concept de ville intelligente. Le nouveau Campus MIL de l’Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, inaugur\u00e9 en septembre 2019, correspond bien \u00e0 l’id\u00e9e que l’on pourrait se faire d’un \u00e9tablissement universitaire int\u00e9gr\u00e9 dans un contexte de ville intelligente.<\/p>\n

Genevi\u00e8ve O’Meara, la porte-parole de l’Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, explique comment le Campus MIL, en se r\u00e9appropriant une friche industrielle, a su utiliser l’espace de fa\u00e7on inclusive et responsable. Les projets \u00e9ph\u00e9m\u00e8res, les installations technologiques, la mise en place de pistes cyclables et de passerelles s\u00e9curitaires ont, entre autres, valu \u00e0 ce campus l’obtention de la certification LEED.<\/p>\n

Pourtant, Sasha Dyck, un r\u00e9sident de Parc-Extension, prend la venue du Campus MIL \u00e0 quelques 500 m\u00e8tres de chez lui avec plus de r\u00e9serve. Alors que l’on parle d’innovation et de progr\u00e8s technologiques, Sasha Dyck est pr\u00e9occup\u00e9 par des probl\u00e8mes bien plus rudimentaires, qui sont accentu\u00e9s par l’installation du campus aux fronti\u00e8res d’un des quartiers les plus pauvres du Canada.<\/p>\n

THIS EPISODE: Inclusion and a new “smart” campus in Montreal<\/h3>\n

How do post-secondary institutions, and specifically their campuses, fit into the smart city landscape? The Universit\u00e9 of Montr\u00e9al’s new Campus MIL gives us an idea. Genevi\u00e8ve O’Meara, Universit\u00e9 of Montr\u00e9al spokesperson talks to us about how Campus MIL inclusively and responsibly repurposed old industrial lands with temporary urban interventions, tech installations, bike lanes, safe walkways, and other features that even landed them a LEED certification. But Sasha Dyck, a resident of Parc-Extention, is wary of MIL Campus located some 500 metres from where he lives. This may be a story of innovation and technological progress for some, but Sasha tells us about the impact all of this can have on one of Canada’s poorest neighbourhoods. As innovative, tech-enabled spaces make their way into our cities we have to ask ourselves: Who is being left behind?<\/p>\n