Nov 13, 2018
As the issues become increasingly complex, one of the challenges of innovation lies in creating effective spaces for exchange where actors can develop common understandings and initiate transformations
The director of Cité-ID, Professor Marie-Christine Therrien, discussed this challenge at a colloquium entitled “Design constellations: large-scale innovation ecosystems,” held during the 31st edition of the Entretiens Jacques Cartier. A guest speaker at the conference, Professor Therrien presented the approach used by Cité-ID Living Lab in Urban Resilience Governance to support actors in efforts to develop urban resilience in Québec. The colloquium assembled francophone Living Labs, public and private administrators and associations. Created in 1987, the Entretiens Jacques Cartier is the annual flagship event of cooperation between Québec and the Rhône-Alpes region in France. This year’s event, held in France at venues in Lyon, Saint-Étienne and Clermont-Ferrant, involved 30 sessions, 400 speakers, and more than 3,000 actors and decision-makers. ...
Nov 12, 2018
Marie-Christine Therrien, guest speaker at Mobilise2018 — Disaster Risk Reduction.
Professor and Director of the Cité-ID Living Lab, Marie-Christine Therrien, participated in to the workshop Mobilise 2018 — Disaster Risk Reduction conference which took place in Malaysia. Her lecture focused on collaborative network governance for the development of urban resilience. This event is part of a large research project managed by the THINKLab of Salford University to support building community resilience in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Malaysia. Over forty-five government, academic, non-government and business organisations contributed to the workshop....
Oct 12, 2018
Social Capital as a determinant of Post-Disaster Recovery. How to develop social capital before an event?
Several studies show that social capital build before a event is a key factor of recovery after a disaster. To better transfert this knowledge, the City-ID Living Lab organized a workshop led by a specialist on this subject, the Northeastern University’s political science professor Daniel Aldrich, and animated byt Marie-Christine Therrien, Professor at ENAP and Director of Cité-ID. This initiative allowed more than 30 participants from nine organizations to reflect on the role of social capital and how to develop it. This workshop is part of our two projects on social capital for youth and preparation for catastrophic events. This program is financially supported by Maison de l’innovation sociale and the Mitacs Program....
Sep 19, 2018
Publication of Urban resilience implementation: A policy challenge and research agenda for the 21st century
How to develop urban resilience? Marie-Christine Therrien and her colleagues propose a new research agenda and a policy challenge on urban resilience. The authors argue that researchers and practitioners need to work together to better understand the transformative capabilities of cities, mobilize partners and develop new forms of governance. The research-agenda is published in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. This publication is the result of a co-construction project between practitioners and researchers funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)....
Aug 16, 2018
Publication of a new book chapter by City-ID LivingLab Director and Co-Director
Marie-Christine Therrien, Professor at ENAP and Director of the Cité-ID Living Lab, and Julie-Maude Normandin, Co-Director, Research and Communication for Cité-ID, collaborated with Professor Mark Pelling from King’s College and Shona Paterson, science officer at Future Earth Coasts, for a new chapter in the book Urban Resilience for Risk and Adaptation Governance, published by Springer.The Chapter The Definition of Urban Resilience: A Transformation Path Towards Collaborative Urban Risk Governance is available online. It will be in print in early 2019....
Jul 17, 2018
The director of Cité-ID co-associate editor the new Resilience Challenges editorial line in JCCM
Marie-Christine Therrien, professor at École nationale d’administration publique and Director of Cité-ID LivingLab Urban resilience governance and Jon Coaffee, professor in Urban Geography in the Department of Politics & International Studies and director of the Warwick Institute for the Science of Cities (WISC) will manage as co-associate editors the new Resilience Challenges editorial line in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (JCCM).The JCCM is an invaluable source of information on all aspects of contingency planning, scenario analysis and crisis management in both corporate and public sectors. It focuses on the opportunities and threats facing organizations and presents analysis and case studies of crisis prevention, crisis planning, recovery and turnaround management. With contributions from world-wide sources including corporations, governmental agencies, think tanks and influential academics, this publication provides a vital platform for the exchange of strateg...
Jul 4, 2018
Cité-ID at the “34th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium 2018”
From July 5 to 7, 2018, the director of Cité-ID, Professor Marie-Christine Therrien, participated in the 34th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, taking place at the Estonian Business School in Tallinn, Estonia. She presented a text co-authored with Mathilde Jutras and Susan Usher entitled “Social network analysis to foster dialogue in urban resilience and adaptation policies” at a thematic session on Smart and liveable cities: Organizing urban governance and leadership. ...
May 15, 2018
Cité-ID interviewed the show “Les années lumière”
Marie-Christine Therrien, Director of Cité-ID and Professor at the École nationale d’administration publique, was heard on the Radio-Canada radio programme “Les années lumière” on May 13, 2018, describing the Living Lab approach....
May 15, 2018
The 10 universities in Greater Montréal came together to launch the “10 Together” campaign
The 10 universities in Greater Montréal — UQAM, École de technologie supérieure, École nationale d’administration publique, École Polytechnique de Montréal, HEC, Institut national de la recherché scientifique, Concordia University, Université de Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke (Campus Longueuil) and McGill University – came together to launch the “10 Together” campaign. The campaign aims to highlight the important contribution of universities to the daily lives of Montrealers and celebrate the great brains that make Montréal the best university city in America, as found by the recent QS Best Student Cities ratings. “The 10 university centres of the metropolis contribute to the strength of sectors such as innovation, research and culture, among others. Through the knowledge they transmit, these 10 institutions of higher learning enrich our community and create an intelligent, strong and lively city,” to quote the campaign’s website.The campaign highlights the in...
May 15, 2018
International Conference “Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation”, Barcelona, 10 – 12 December 2018
SUBMISSIONS OPEN International Conference http://2018reframingurbanresilience.org/ Barcelona, 10 – 12 December 2018 The conference is an international event which aim is discussing in a multidisciplinary way the need for a more integrated and inclusive approach to design and manage urban resilience, addressing climatic, environmental, socio-economic challenges while minimizing trade-offs among them, and maximizing synergies between resilience and sustainability. It has been organized by the Urban Resilience research Network URNet, the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya UIC and UN HABITAT City Resilience Profiling Program and supported from international partners as ICLEI, the 100RC, METROPOLIS, the Global Alliance for Urban Crises, the IUCN and many others working and promoting city resilience and sustainability. Deadline for Abstracts and Panels submissions — 30 May 2018 Researchers, practitioners, multilateral agencies, civil society and city-to-city learning networks will collect...
