Michèle Champagne
@michhham.bsky.social
Graphic artist in Montreal. Studies mandatory positivity and its effects on freedom of expression, architecture media, and “smart” cities. Invited to Harvard, McGill, MICA, and UQAM. — michelechampagne.com
2. La langue française, autre valeur culturelle, qui mérite également d’être défendue. Elle est considérée comme sacrée mais son financement est réduit depuis longtemps dans le cadre de la CALQ. Pourquoi ? J’aimerais en savoir plus à son sujet et sur son lien avec le numéro 1.
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
2. La langue française, autre valeur culturelle, qui mérite également d’être défendue. Elle est considérée comme sacrée mais son financement est réduit depuis longtemps dans le cadre de la CALQ. Pourquoi ? J’aimerais en savoir plus à son sujet et sur son lien avec le numéro 1.
The pavilion exhibition is called “Internalities” and it was curated by Roi Salgueiro and Manuel Bouzas. The publication, maquettes, samples, and photography are extraordinary. They showcase the work of the trades and the artists, designers, architects, and engineers involved.
internalities.eu/en/
internalities.eu/en/
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The pavilion exhibition is called “Internalities” and it was curated by Roi Salgueiro and Manuel Bouzas. The publication, maquettes, samples, and photography are extraordinary. They showcase the work of the trades and the artists, designers, architects, and engineers involved.
internalities.eu/en/
internalities.eu/en/
Partial view of the principal façade of the Montreal Star Building (now The Gazette Building), 241-245 rue Saint-Jacques, Montréal, Québec, by Clara Gutsche, 1979.
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Partial view of the principal façade of the Montreal Star Building (now The Gazette Building), 241-245 rue Saint-Jacques, Montréal, Québec, by Clara Gutsche, 1979.
You can see Montreal’s Central Station on de la Gauchetière Ouest. These days, it’s invisible: blocked by a large, nondescript parking garage with a McDonald’s sign on it.
Montreal with C.N. Station, by George Hunter, 1958. Courtesy of the Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation.
Montreal with C.N. Station, by George Hunter, 1958. Courtesy of the Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation.
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
You can see Montreal’s Central Station on de la Gauchetière Ouest. These days, it’s invisible: blocked by a large, nondescript parking garage with a McDonald’s sign on it.
Montreal with C.N. Station, by George Hunter, 1958. Courtesy of the Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation.
Montreal with C.N. Station, by George Hunter, 1958. Courtesy of the Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation.
The “This is the way” post was deleted. I hope you were able to screen grab it.
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The “This is the way” post was deleted. I hope you were able to screen grab it.
This is what Canada looked like in the 19th century: Skating Rink, on the Montreal harbour, by Alexander Henderson, 1876.
– @museemccordstewart.bsky.social
– @museemccordstewart.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This is what Canada looked like in the 19th century: Skating Rink, on the Montreal harbour, by Alexander Henderson, 1876.
– @museemccordstewart.bsky.social
– @museemccordstewart.bsky.social
Toute l’histoire est charmante :
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Toute l’histoire est charmante :
The signatories who elaborated this point know exactly what they’re talking about:
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The signatories who elaborated this point know exactly what they’re talking about:
Plan of winter garden for Place Bonaventure, 1964-69, by Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise. Digitisation of the plan courtesy of the @ccaconversations.bsky.social.
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Plan of winter garden for Place Bonaventure, 1964-69, by Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise. Digitisation of the plan courtesy of the @ccaconversations.bsky.social.
Technically, @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social is correct: the Crown created the Hudson’s Bay Company. Culturally, it’s also true that some members of the British Royal family and aristocracy fancy themselves—and their ancestors—as rebels and adventurers. From Prince Rupert to Stella Tennant:
October 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Technically, @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social is correct: the Crown created the Hudson’s Bay Company. Culturally, it’s also true that some members of the British Royal family and aristocracy fancy themselves—and their ancestors—as rebels and adventurers. From Prince Rupert to Stella Tennant:
Rome’s Flaminio quartiere is rife with mid-rises too, whether pre-, modern, or post-modern. It was a great, dense spot.
In May, @glindsay.bsky.social and I walking from the Hyatt’s The Tribune through Villa Borghese and Flaminio to the Maxxi museum and 60’s Summer Olympic stadium.
In May, @glindsay.bsky.social and I walking from the Hyatt’s The Tribune through Villa Borghese and Flaminio to the Maxxi museum and 60’s Summer Olympic stadium.
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Rome’s Flaminio quartiere is rife with mid-rises too, whether pre-, modern, or post-modern. It was a great, dense spot.
In May, @glindsay.bsky.social and I walking from the Hyatt’s The Tribune through Villa Borghese and Flaminio to the Maxxi museum and 60’s Summer Olympic stadium.
In May, @glindsay.bsky.social and I walking from the Hyatt’s The Tribune through Villa Borghese and Flaminio to the Maxxi museum and 60’s Summer Olympic stadium.
L’exposition «Le livre photographique au Québec» est présentée à Artexte jusqu'au 13 décembre.
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artexte.ca/exposition/l...
October 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
L’exposition «Le livre photographique au Québec» est présentée à Artexte jusqu'au 13 décembre.
artexte.ca/exposition/l...
artexte.ca/exposition/l...
Jeremy Bentham himself, in his letters, insisted the idea and plan came from his younger brother, Samuel.
And it was Samuel who designed and built a panopticon as a naval “School of the Arts” in Saint Petersburg. Look at Samuel’s pre-proto-modernism. A plan, elevation, and sections circa 1807.
And it was Samuel who designed and built a panopticon as a naval “School of the Arts” in Saint Petersburg. Look at Samuel’s pre-proto-modernism. A plan, elevation, and sections circa 1807.
October 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Jeremy Bentham himself, in his letters, insisted the idea and plan came from his younger brother, Samuel.
And it was Samuel who designed and built a panopticon as a naval “School of the Arts” in Saint Petersburg. Look at Samuel’s pre-proto-modernism. A plan, elevation, and sections circa 1807.
And it was Samuel who designed and built a panopticon as a naval “School of the Arts” in Saint Petersburg. Look at Samuel’s pre-proto-modernism. A plan, elevation, and sections circa 1807.
At its peak in the early 1900s, the Ottawa streetcar system had developed 90 kilometres of track.
For context: the new, contemporary O-Train has 20 kilometres, and will soon extend to about 55.
For context: the new, contemporary O-Train has 20 kilometres, and will soon extend to about 55.
October 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
At its peak in the early 1900s, the Ottawa streetcar system had developed 90 kilometres of track.
For context: the new, contemporary O-Train has 20 kilometres, and will soon extend to about 55.
For context: the new, contemporary O-Train has 20 kilometres, and will soon extend to about 55.
It is easy to forget. In a way. I grew up in Ottawa, attended a high school for the gifted, received A+ grades in history, and attended free history lectures at University of Ottawa.
Yet I never learned about “design”, “architecture”, “urbanism”, or the fact that Ottawa used to have streetcars.
Yet I never learned about “design”, “architecture”, “urbanism”, or the fact that Ottawa used to have streetcars.
October 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
It is easy to forget. In a way. I grew up in Ottawa, attended a high school for the gifted, received A+ grades in history, and attended free history lectures at University of Ottawa.
Yet I never learned about “design”, “architecture”, “urbanism”, or the fact that Ottawa used to have streetcars.
Yet I never learned about “design”, “architecture”, “urbanism”, or the fact that Ottawa used to have streetcars.
My favourite photographs of the Grand Quay at the Port of Montreal are by James Brittain.
September 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My favourite photographs of the Grand Quay at the Port of Montreal are by James Brittain.
For Sidewalk Toronto, Heatherwick Studio developed a rendering style I call “Everyday Bruegelian fiction”.
September 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
For Sidewalk Toronto, Heatherwick Studio developed a rendering style I call “Everyday Bruegelian fiction”.
In other late night Canadian report culture: behold! Something @vassb.bsky.social and I have been perusing lately: Science Council of Canada reports. From 1971:
September 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
In other late night Canadian report culture: behold! Something @vassb.bsky.social and I have been perusing lately: Science Council of Canada reports. From 1971:
Interesting. Produced under Harper’s “Minister of State” mandate. It offers a bizarro office collage plus typography that is so bad ‘it’s good again’. It’s a Bloomberg Businessweek aesthetic circa early Richard Turley with art direction by Canadians like Tracy Ma and Steph Davidson.
September 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Interesting. Produced under Harper’s “Minister of State” mandate. It offers a bizarro office collage plus typography that is so bad ‘it’s good again’. It’s a Bloomberg Businessweek aesthetic circa early Richard Turley with art direction by Canadians like Tracy Ma and Steph Davidson.
Over the next several months, I’ll develop a business idea that I have already piloted in Montreal and Toronto: an international school dedicated to art, design, computation, and publishing. I can't wait to reinvent it and develop it further.
Photography by Philip Cheung.
Photography by Philip Cheung.
September 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Over the next several months, I’ll develop a business idea that I have already piloted in Montreal and Toronto: an international school dedicated to art, design, computation, and publishing. I can't wait to reinvent it and develop it further.
Photography by Philip Cheung.
Photography by Philip Cheung.
Au cours des prochains mois, je développerai une idée d'entreprise que j’ai déjà pilotée à Montréal et à Toronto: une école internationale dédiée à l'art, au design, à la computation et à l’édition. J'ai hâte de la réinventer et de la développer davantage.
Photographie par Philip Cheung.
Photographie par Philip Cheung.
September 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Au cours des prochains mois, je développerai une idée d'entreprise que j’ai déjà pilotée à Montréal et à Toronto: une école internationale dédiée à l'art, au design, à la computation et à l’édition. J'ai hâte de la réinventer et de la développer davantage.
Photographie par Philip Cheung.
Photographie par Philip Cheung.
It’s extraordinary. No matter where you were born or where you now live.
September 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It’s extraordinary. No matter where you were born or where you now live.
I’m bookmarking @touloumi.bsky.social's book, Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior. It paints a complex picture of who designed the headquarters and why: for photography and television.
Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social.
Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social.
September 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I’m bookmarking @touloumi.bsky.social's book, Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior. It paints a complex picture of who designed the headquarters and why: for photography and television.
Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social.
Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social.
Adam Vaughan is on the left. Photograph by Cole Burston.
September 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Adam Vaughan is on the left. Photograph by Cole Burston.
I take your reconnecting crystal thing made of glass and raise it to a reconnecting crystal thing made of glass and ill-placed metal slats—at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Photograph by Darren Bradley.
September 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I take your reconnecting crystal thing made of glass and raise it to a reconnecting crystal thing made of glass and ill-placed metal slats—at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Photograph by Darren Bradley.