In this episode, guest-hosts Dr. Sara Dorow, professor of sociology (University of Alberta), and project research assistant Rezvaneh Erfani talk about Canada’s first ever net-zero multifamily social housing project. The […]

S5E3 – NET-ZERO NEIGHBOURS: THE BLATCHFORD PROJECT

Apr 25th, 2022 57m 13s

In this episode, recorded in early 2021, Sheena Wilson sits down with two project managers for Blatchford, a net-zero real estate development on the site of the old Edmonton City […]

S5E3 – NET-ZERO NEIGHBOURS: THE BLATCHFORD PROJECT

Mar 25th, 2022 57m 13s

In this episode, Dr. Sheena Wilson sits down with Christian Felske, Director of Renewable Energy Systems at the City of Edmonton, and Tom Lumsden, Blatchford Development Manager, to talk about Blatchford, Edmonton’s first carbon-neutral communi

S5E2 – ENGINEERING RESILIENCY

Jun 8th, 2020 57m 46s

In this episode, we chat with the architectural and engineering team from the LA CITÉ RÉSILIENTE project, including Jacob Komar, Principal Engineer with Revolve Engineering, Trina Larsen, Principal at Larsen […]

S5E1 – LA CITÉ RESILIENTE: A DECADE IN TRANSITION

Jun 8th, 2020 45m 7s

In this episode, we talk to the organizational team from the La Cité Résiliente: A Decade in Transition project, including research coordinator Danika Jorgensen-Skakum, intern and public outreach coordinator, Laurence […]

S4E5 – INTERVIEW w/ CHARLES RICHMOND

Mar 18th, 2020 34m 45s

This episode features a conversation with Charles Richmond, coordinator for Sierra Club Canada Foundation’s Edmonton chapter and champion of active civic engagement in good governance and empirically-based environmental advocacy in public life.

S4E4 – INTERVIEW w/ ROCKY FEROE

Mar 18th, 2020 43m 40s

This episode features a conversation with Rocky Feroe, a retired physician and Board Director & Co-Founder of the Solar Power Investment Cooperative of Edmonton (SPICE).

S4E3 – INTERVIEW w/ CODY SHARPHEAD

Mar 18th, 2020 23m 12s

This episode features a conversation with Cody Sharphead, archeologist and consultation co-ordinator with Enoch Cree Nation.

S4E2 – INTERVIEW w/ DAVID DODGE

Mar 18th, 2020 44m 41s

This episode features a conversation with Davide Dodge, environmental journalist, energy transition advocate, and host and producer of Green Energy Futures.

S4E1 – DEEP ENERGY LITERACY: DEEP SOLARITIES w/ SHEENA WILSON

Mar 18th, 2020 45m 36s

In the first episode of this series, Just Powers lead Dr. Sheena Wilson and producer Jessie Beier introduce the what, why and how of deep solarities.

S3E6 – Disposition, in Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space

Apr 10th, 2019 44m 40s

This episode features a reading of Chapter 2 from Keller Easterling’s 2014 book Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, published by Verso Books. In this book, Easterling offers an understanding […]

S3E5 – The Infrastructure of Intimacy

Apr 10th, 2019 1h 10m

In this episode we read Ara Wilson’s article “The Infrastructure of Intimacy”, published by Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society in Winter 2016. Bringing together intimacy and infrastructure, […]

S3E4 – Feminist Hackerspace as a Place of Infrastructure Production

Apr 10th, 2019 25m 40s

In this episode we read Selena Savic and Stefanie Wuschitz’s article “Feminist Hackerspace as a Place of Infrastructure Production”, which was published in 2018 by Ada A Journal of Gender, […]

S3E3 – The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times

Apr 10th, 2019 1h 17m

In this episode we read “The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times” by Lauren Berlant. This article was published in the 2016 (Volume 34) edition of Society and Space, an international […]

S3E2 – Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance

Apr 10th, 2019 27m 38s

In this episode we read Deborah Cowen’s 2017 article “Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance”, which was published on January 25, 2017 on the Verso Books Blog. In this article, Cowen […]

S3E1 – Infrastructure, Infra-politics

Apr 10th, 2019 10m 38s

For our first episode in Series III, we are excited to share an excerpt from Angela Mitropoulos’ 2012 book Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia titled “Infrastructure, Infra-politics.” In […]

S2E6 – Materializing Climate Change

Nov 6th, 2018 56m 6s

In this episode we will be reading Dr. Nicole Shukin’s 2015 article “Materializing Climate Change: Image of Exposure, States of Exception”. This text is included in the edited collection Material […]

S2E5 – Chainsaw: Theory and Practice

Nov 6th, 2018 29m 10s

This Read and Record episode features a performative readings of the zine “Chainsaw: Theory and Practice” by Catherine Lavoie-Marcus in complicity with non-disciplinary artist Johanna Householder. Originally published in 2017 […]

S2E4 – Performing Sovereignty

Nov 5th, 2018 46m 50s

In this episode we will be reading “Performing Sovereignty: Forces to be Reckoned With” by Dr. Carla Taunton. This text is included in the edited collection More Caught in the […]

S2E3 – Choreographies of Collaboration

Nov 5th, 2018 1h 7m

This episode features a Read & Record of Liz Miller and Martin Allor’s 2016 essay “Choreographies of collaboration: Social engagement in interactive documentaries”, from Volume 10, Issue 1 of the […]

S2E2 – Amateur Video & The Challenge for Change

Nov 5th, 2018 40m

In this episode we will be reading “Amateur video and the challenge for change” by Dr. Janine Marchessault. This text is included in the collection “Challenge for Change”, edited by […]

S2E1 – (Re)framing Big Data

Nov 5th, 2018 55m 18s

For our first episode in Series II, we are excited to share a Read & Record of the 2018 article “(Re)framing Big Data: Activating Situated Knowledges and a Feminist Ethics […]

S1E5 – Energy Imaginaries

Aug 14th, 2018 1h 4m

In this episode we will be reading Sheena Wilson’s 2018 article titled “Energy Imaginaries: Feminist and Decolonial Futures,” which can be found in Materialism and the Critique of Energy, edited […]

S1E4 – In Catastrophic Times

Aug 14th, 2018 50m 22s

This Read & Record episode features a selection of chapters from Isabelle Stengers’ 2015 book In catastrophic times: Resisting the coming barbarism. The book was translated from French to English […]

S1E3 – Indigenous Women and Knowledge

Aug 14th, 2018 30m 28s

In this episode we will be reading “Indigenous Women and Knowledge” by Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez & Nathalie Kermoal. This text is featured in Living on the Land. Indigenous Women’s Understanding of […]