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Biographical notes
Christopher Alton’s work focuses on mine afterlives and critical conservation related to mining, interested in how territories are communicated and transformed across and through extractive infrastructures and landscapes. He is an instructor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton and has taught courses at Waterloo, TMU, and with the Centre for Biocultural Landscape and Seascape (CBLS). With OPSYS Landscape Infrastructure Lab, he was project manager and lead researcher for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture and is a co-founder of the Beyond Extraction collective. He is currently a PhD candidate in Environment at Waterloo.
Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon is an Assistant Professor at the Dalhousie University School of Architecture in Kjipuktuk (Halifax). Her research focuses on the relationship between built environments and grounds, exploring themes such as material fictions, extractive infrastructures, and liquid landscapes. She holds a professional degree in architecture from McGill University and a bachelor of environmental design from UQAM. She completed her PhD in architecture at Carleton University, where she investigated the politics of scale in the architecture of state scientific institutions in early twentieth-century Ottawa. Prior to her doctoral studies, she practiced design in both Canada and Germany.
Zannah Mae Matson is an Assistant Professor in the Program in Environmental Design at University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on the intertwined processes of colonization, extraction, and infrastructure development, both within Colombia’s eastern piedmont as well as Canada’s extensive mining sector. Zannah is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education and is an active member of Beyond Extraction, which is a collective of researchers, writers, artists, and activists who come together to critically investigate and resist extraction in its various forms.