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Emilie Pinard is an Associate Professor at the McEwen School of Architecture where she teaches Design Studio, Thesis and Cultural Sustainability courses. She holds a Master of Architecture Degree and a Doctorate in Architecture and Anthropology from Université Laval. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg. Emilie’s work and teaching experience focus on people-environment relationships, housing and collaborative architecture. She is conducting research on child-friendly design strategies for mid-sized and smaller cities. With the Habitats + Cultures Group from Université Laval, Emilie worked on different design and research initiatives conducted in collaboration with members of the Innu communities of Nitassinan and Inuit of Nunavik, and with communities and institutions in Senegal. She is a co-researcher in the Living in Northern Quebec Interdisciplinary Research Partnership (http://www.habiterlenordquebecois.org/), which has as its research subject the culturally adequate and sustainable planning of Innu and Inuit habitats.
| 2024- | Environnement bâti favorable aux enfants dans les villes de taille moyenne et petite. |
| 2020-2024 | Chaire UNESCO pour la conception et la construction d’écoles solidaires et durables. Co-chair. |
| 2022-2023 | Répertoire visuel pour la conception de centres de transmission et de partage des savoirs au Nunavik. Principal investigator (Subventions d’échange de connaissance du CRSH) |
| 2019-2023 | Doing things differently: An atlas of best practices and opportunities for culturally acceptable and sustainable living environments in Nunavik. Collaborator (Sentinel North) |
| 2018-2022 | Construire sur les traditions : savoir-faire et innovation dans l’architecture vernaculaire, Sénégal et Guinée-Bissau. Principal investigator (CRSH développement savoir + FRUL) |
| 2018-2022 | Apprendre du territoire : conception en collaboration d’un centre de la transmission de la culture innue. Principal investigator (CRSH engagement partenarial) |
| 2015-2020 | Habiter le Nord québecois : Mobiliser, comprendre, imaginer. Co-researcher (CRSH partenariat) |
| Pinard, E. (2024) Senegal and Mali. In Brown, L et Burns, K. (eds.) The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015. Londres: Bloomsbury. |
| Gouin, E., Pinard, E. & Vachon, G. (2024) L’heure est à la collaboration : Bilan réflexif d’expériences de recherche-création collaborative avec la communauté innue de Uashat mak Mani-utenam, in Della Faille, D. et Abanda, F.(eds.) Cahier spécial CIÉRACITÉ : Enjeux méthodologiques et éthiques de la recherche en contexte autochtone. CIÉRA-UQO |
| Kane, M.N., Ndiaye, M. et Pinard, E. (2023) Study of Construction Techniques and Hygro-Thermal Behavior of a Vernacular Earth Building in a Humid Tropical Climate. Journal of Building Construction and Planning Research, 11(3), 69-85. |
| Blais, M. et Pinard, E. (2021) Introduction – Construire et habiter l’Inuit Nunangat / Building and Dwelling in Inuit Nunangat. Études Inuit Studies (numéro spécial, éditrices invitées), 44(1-2): 11-36. |
| Pinard, E. (2021) The consolidation of ‘traditional villages’ in Pikine, Senegal: Negotiating legitimacy, control and access to peri-urban land. African Studies, 80(2): 172-189. |
| Piché, D. et Pinard, E. (2019) Genre, villes et développement : regard sur l’Afrique subsaharienne. In Levy, C. et Martinez, A. (eds.) Genre, féminismes et développement – une trilogie en construction, Ottawa : Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 367-92. |
| Vachon, G., Pinard, E., Blais, M., André-Lescop, G. et Rock, c. (2017) Vers des visions partagées. Des outils visuels pour l’aménagement durable des communautés innues de la Côte-Nord. Recherches amérindiennes au Québec, 48(1): 121-136. |
| Pinard, E. (2016) Les femmes propriétaires à Pikine, Sénégal: entre nouvelles responsabilités familiales et désir d’autonomie. Recherches féministes, 29(2): 43-62. |
| Pinard, E. (2016) From courtyard houses to villas: The incremental transformation of Dakar’s urban landscape. Open House International, 41(2): 15-22. |
| 2019 | #1 Top 10 Laurentian University Research and Innovation Achievements of 2018-2019 |