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Shannon Bassett is a Canadian-American architectural and urban designer. Her research, teaching, writing and practice operate at the intersection(s) of architecture, urban design and landscape ecology. She is the Advisory Chair and Co-Founder of BEA(N) – Building Equality in Architecture North. She serves on the LU Presidential Advisory Committee on the Status of Gender Equity.
Her writing on both China’s explosive urbanization and its changing landscape, as well as shrinking cities and the post-industrial landscape in North America, has been published in Topos, Urban Flux, Landscape Architecture Frontiers Magazine (LAF) and Canadian Architect.
Her design work and research has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at the Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture (2012) and at the BUGAIK International Architectural Exhibition (Busan Ulsan Gyeongnam Chapter of Architectural Institute of Korea). She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant for (Re)Stitch Tampa. Ensuing from this research platform was the publication, “(Re)Stitch Tampa: Designing the Post-War Coastal American City through Ecologies”, published by ACTAR.
She was appointed by the Mayor of Ottawa and Ottawa City Council to serve as an Advisor to the City of Ottawa Planning Advisory Committee. She served as an Elected Board Member of the Building Technology Educators Society and an appointed member on the Sustainable Built Environment Committee (SBEC) for the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA). In 2011 she was awarded the Pullara Award by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for her demonstrated leadership and service to both the profession and the community.
Shannon has lectured internationally, including in China, India, South Korea, and the US. She is an Invited Professor every summer to the Busan, South Korea, International Architectural Design Workshop (BIAD) CAMPUS – Asia Program, Department of Architecture, Pusan National University. This annual International Summer Architecture and Urban Design Workshop is funded by the Korean Government.
Shannon is currently collaborating with the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) on design research is supported with an Insight Development grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She also served as an Invited Critic to the Bhopal SPA for a landscape studio focussed on the preservation of Sacred Groves in India as protected cultural landscapes.
She is fully bilingual – English and French -and speaks rudimentary Mandarin.
| Book Proposal | “Recovering the Old Walled City of Delhi -Shahjahanbad- through Participatory Architectural Conservation and Ecological Urbanism” (Working title), ORO Editions |
| Chapters authored in Academic Books | |
| 2022 | -Bassett, Shannon, Chapter, “Leveraging Rural Urbanisms: Design at the Intersection of Formality and Informality in Xixinan, China”, in “Informality and the City: Theories, Actions and Interventions”, Edited by Gregory Marinic and Pablo Meninato (Editors), Springer Nature. Switzerland: 2022. Pp505-520 – Published
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-99926-1_34 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-99926-1_34#chapter-info |
| 2022 | -Bassett, Shannon, Chapter, “Topographical and Landform Explorations: Revisiting Noguchi’s Sculptured Landscapes and Their Representations “, in “Representing Landscapes: One Hundred Years of Visual Communication”, Edited by Nadia Amoroso and Martin J. Holland, Routledge – Taylor and Francis, 218p. New York: 2022. pp32-42 – Published |
| 2023 | -Bassett, Shannon, Chapter, “Canadian Academic Interior Urbanism as a Climatic and Cultural Response”, in “The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader”, Routledge, Edited by Gregory Marinic, Routledge, 2023. pp x-x
https://www.routledge.com/The-Interior-Urbanism-Theory-Reader/Marinic/p/book/9781138336315?gclid=Cj0KCQjwi46iBhDyARIsAE3nVrYnWjDoqUgZZI-9NWDDMFHQzH57VRHbMwetWxnaGyP5jwzk73UURS4aAmkHEALw_wcB – Forthcoming October 2023 |
| Published Articles in Refereed Journals | |
| 2023 | -Bassett, Shannon, “Recovering the Public Spaces of Shahjahanabad – the Old Walled City of Delhi, India – through Participatory Architectural Conservation and Ecological Urbanism”, RAIC-CCUSA Academic Summit, published conference proceedings, Theme: Climate Action – Counteracting climate change and mitigating the impacts of the climate crisis on people and communities, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), 2023, pp73-80 (online) |
| 2022 | Bassett, Shannon, “Recalibrating Infrastructure and Ecologies: Portlands, Toronto, Ontario: Designing a new urban ecology for the Toronto Port Lands at the mouth of the Don River”, October 1, 2023, Canadian Architect – Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) https://www.canadianarchitect.com/port-lands/ |
| 2022 | Bassett, Shannon, Hybrid Approaches to Climate Change Futures, edited three papers in the Session and wrote introduction/summary, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), 2022, online pp3-4 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gJbSa1kRZC_2JovUU-UjlPPzKqjutM3S/view |
| Published conference proceedings, (papers, reports, summaries, abstracts), refereed | |
| 2023 | -Bassett, Shannon, “Building Equality(ies) in Architecture North – BEA(N)”, in Pedagogy: Holistic Knowledge Session, 111th Annual Meeting, In Commons, ACSA Annual Conference, April 1, 2023.
https://www.acsa-arch.org/press-release-winners-announced-for-2023-architectural-education-awards/ -Featured in: Architect Magazine: https://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/acsa-reveals-2023-architectural-education-award-winners_c
Archinect: |
| 2023 | -Bassett, Shannon, “Designing for Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change on the Indian Sub- Continent Recovering and Re-Adapting India’s Stepwells”, Annual Meeting, Align | Realign: Dialogues between Academic Pursuits and Professional Demand, Council of Educators of Landscape Architecture 2023 (CELA), San Antonio, Texas, abstract published in Proceedings, p319. https://thecela.org/wp-content/uploads/2023-CELLA-Proceedings.pdf |
| 2023 | -Bassett, Shannon and Galvin, Terrance, “Reading the Sudbury2050 Urban Design International Ideas Competition: A Toolkit of Potential Design Strategies for Urban Revival and Renewal of North American Towns and Cities afforded through Ecological Urbanism,” in the Urban Design Track, Oral Presentation, Abstract Published in Proceedings p 354.
https://thecela.org/wp-content/uploads/2023-CELLA-Proceedings.pdf |
| 2022 | -Bassett, Shannon, “Re-reading Teron’s post-war developments in Ottawa as new models for ecologically-supportive housing and new town development”, p 211, in Landscape Planning + Ecology Session. Evolving Norms – Adapting Scholarship to Disruptive Phenomena, CELA 2022 Annual Conference, Proceedings, March 16-19, 2022, Santa Pueblo, New Mexico,
https://thecela.org/wp-content/uploads/2022-CELA-Proceedings.pdf |
| 2022 | Bassett, Shannon, “Recovering the Public Spaces of Shahjahanbad – the Old Walled City of Delhi through Ecological Urbanism”, p 324, in Urban Design Session.
Evolving Norms – Adapting Scholarship to Disruptive Phenomena, CELA 2022 Annual Conference, Evolving Norms – Adapting Scholarship to Disruptive Phenomena, CELA 2022 Annual Conference https://thecela.org/wp-content/uploads/2022-CELA-Proceedings.pdf |
| 2021 | Bassett, Shannon, ARCC 2021 International Conference, Performative Environments, “Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) as Performative Environments + Ecologies -Integrating Land-Based Learning, into the Architectural Curriculum and Design Research”, Poster posted on on-line gallery, April 7-10, 2021 |
| 2021 | Bassett, Shannon, NCBDS – After Form-36th Conference on the Beginning Design Student Design Pedagogy in the Expanded Field, “Integrating Indigenous Land-Based Learning into the Beginning Design Architectural Curriculum”, pp186-189, Published Abstract
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UlcvCbNwvpWqnfw6xCiPun4yzjO_XQKl |
| 2021 | Bassett, Shannon, CELA 2021, 100+1 Resilience, 2021 Conference Proceedings, March 17-19, 2021 Published Abstract, Design Education and Pedagogy, “Integrating Indigenous Land-Based Learning into the Architectural Curriculum – forms of Conduct and Local TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge) as Embodied Ways of Learning and Knowing”, pp85-86.
https://thecela.org/wp-content/uploads/2021-CELA-100-1-RESILIENCE-Abstract-Proceedings- 2021_5_13.pdf |
| 2023-present | PhD Candidate -Laurentian University – Human Studies and Interdisciplinarity, “Decolonizing Cities through Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) – Working Title |
| Research Grants | |
| September 2023-February 2024 | Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI) Faculty Collaboration Internationalization (SFCI) Project Grant 2023-2024, “Re-visiting Chandigarh’s Ecological Urbanism” – internationalization of the architecture + urban design curriculum – $5000.00 CAN |
| April 2022-April 2027 | SSHRC Partnership Project 2022-27 – Quality in Canada’s Built Environment: Roadmaps to Equity, Social Value and Sustainability–$2.5 M CAN with partners $8.7M CAN |
| June2021-June 2024 | SSHRC Insight Development Grant – “Reducing Risk, Raising Resilience: Recovering the Public Spaces of Shahjahanabad through Participatory Conservation and Ecological Urbanism”- $60,000.00 CAN |
| Activities at Conferences and Meetings of Professional Societies | |
| Oct 19 – 21, 2023 Forthcoming
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2023 ACSA/AIA Intersections Research Conference: Material Economies:
-Presenting Accepted Paper: “Performative Materials: Integrating Land-Based Learning into the Architectural Curriculum, Research+Practice”, To be held October 19-21, 2023 Amherst, MA |
| June 23, 2023 | Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) Annual Conference 2023, “Designing for Dignity”, Sudbury, Ontario, June 21-June 23:
-Instigator and Moderator for panelist discussion at the 2023 Annual OAA Conference, “Building Equality(ies) in Architecture BEA(N): Building Coalitions, Continuing Education Units https://oaa.on.ca/whats-on/conference/2023-conference-program/2023-conference-program-detail/Building-Equalityies-in-Architecture-BEAN-Building-Coalitions, |
| May 1-3, 2023
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SSHRC Partnership Quality in Canada’s Built Environment, Calgary Convention, “Quality in the Built Environment”: -Presented Site Report for Team Cluster update to attendees
– Served as a facilitator for Roundtable – Integrated Resilience, Material Culture and Adaptive Reuse” -Attended Governance Board Meeting, representing LU Cluster//Sudbury Cluster https://sapl.ucalgary.ca/sites/default/files/teams/11/Program_Half-Letter_8-5x11_R1.pdf, |
| Dec. 1-3, 2022 | SSHRC Partnership Quality in Canada’s Built Environment, Online Convention (Online):
–Presented Site Report for Team Cluster update to attendees -Attended and participated at two Roundtables -Attended Governance Board Meeting, representing LU/Sudbury Cluster |
| Aug. 24-26, 2022
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SSHRC Partnership Quality in Canada’s Built Environment, Online Convention, “Barriers to Quality in the Built Environment”:
-Presented Site Report for Team Cluster update to attendees -Attended and participated at two Roundtables -Attended Governance Board Meeting, representing LU Cluster/Sudbury Cluster |
| April 1, 2023 | Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting, Saint Louis, MO:
-Received 2023 Architectural Education Awards Diversity Achievement Award Honorable Mention “Building Equality(ies) in Architecture. North – BEA(N) 18% Acceptance Rate https://www.acsa-arch.org/press-release-winners-announced-for-2023-architectural-education-awards/ -Presented as part of the Pedagogy: Holistic Knowledge Session “Building Equality(ies) in Architecture North – BEA(N)”, Themed Session |
| March 17, 2023 | Council of Educators of Landscape Architecture 2023 (CELA), San Antonio, Annual Meeting, Align | Realign: Dialogues between Academic Pursuits and Professional Demand”:
-Bassett, Shannon, “Reading the Sudbury2050 Urban Design International Ideas Competition: A Toolkit of Potential Design Strategies for Urban Revival and Renewal of North American Towns and Cities afforded through Ecological Urbanism”, in the Urban Design Track, Oral Presentation, Abstract Published in Proceedings p 354.https://thecela.org/wpcontent/uploads/2023-CELLA-Proceedings.pdf |
| March 16, 2023 | Council of Educators of Landscape Architecture 2023 (CELA), San Antonio, Annual Meeting, Align | Realign: Dialogues between Academic Pursuits and Professional Demand”:
-Bassett, Shannon, “Designing for Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change on the Indian Sub- Continent Recovering and Re-Adapting India’s Stepwells,” in the Resilience and Climate Change Track, Oral Presentation, Abstract Published in Proceedings p 319.https://thecela.org/wp-content/uploads/2023-CELLA-Proceedings.pdf |
| March 1, 2023 | ESRI GIS in Education and Research Canada Conference, Hart House, University of Toronto:
-Bassett, Shannon, “Recovering Shahjahanabad-the Old Walled City of Delhi-through Ecological Urbanism and Participatory Conservation – GIS Crowd-Sourcing and Data Visualization”, Urban Planning and Design Track https://hed.esri.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/sessions_and_papers_by_timeslot.pdf https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/7a302c0e6cba4cd7a6ff90b332c3f53d |
| June 15, 2022 | Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canadian Council of University Schools of Architecture (CCUSA) Academic Summit Conference Planning 2022:
-Invited to Serve on the Planning Committee: Moderating Session, “Social Justice”; Editing three papers in Session and writing own -Presented paper which was accepted for presentation and publication in the session “Climate Action”: “Recovering the Public Spaces of Shahjahanabad -the Old Walled City of Delhi- through Participatory Architectural Conservation and Ecological Urbanism”. |
| May 25-28, 2022 | Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC) Conference 2022, “From Revival to Renewal”, Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM):
-Wrote and Instigated Conference Session call, “Strategies for Urban Revival and Renewal in Canadian Cities and Towns” -Reviewed Abstract Submittals -Moderated two Sessions on the Session Panel Theme – Co-Presented Paper at Session with MSoA Prof. Terrance Galvin, “Learning from Sudbury: Reading the Sudbury 2050 Urban Design Ideas Competition”, in the “Strategies for Urban Revival and Renewal in Canadian Cities and Towns” Session as part of the SSAC Conference |
| March 16-19, 2022 | Evolving Norms – Adapting Scholarship to Disruptive Phenomena, CELA 2022 Annual Conference Santa Pueblo, New Mexico:
-Presented two papers and participated on one Session Panel Presentation: – “Re-reading Teron’s post-war developments in Ottawa as new models for ecologically-supportive housing and new town development”, p 213, in Landscape Planning + Ecology Session. – “Recovering the Public Spaces of Shahjahanbad – the Old Walled City of Delhi through Ecological Urbanism,” p 329, in Urban Design Session. – Session Panel Presentation in Communication + Visualization: “A Reflection of the Representation of Landscapes over One Hundred Years of Visual Communication |
| June 17, 2021 | “(Re) Emergence: Working Together, Working Apart”, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada/ (Canadian Council of Universities Schools of (RAIC)/CCUSA) Academic Summit on Architecture as part of the RAIC 2021 Annual National Conference (online):
-Chair of the Steering Group -Presented at opening conference plenary and Moderated session, “Hybrid Approaches to Climate Change Futures” and summarized sessions https://raic.org/sites/raic.org/files/v3_2021_raic- ccusa_academic_summit_2.pdf |
| June 10-11,2021 | “Out of Bounds – Crossing Disciplines in Teaching Technology”, BTES 2021 Conference, Auburn University, Alabama, US:
-Chair of the Awards sub- Committee for BTES; presented awards-Emerging Faculty Award Book Award, Edward Allen Student Award -Chaired Session “History+Culture+Theory+Structure” content/uploads/2021/06/BTES-2021- Conference-Schedule_6.8.pdf |
| May 29, 2021 | Architecture in the Clouds, 46th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC):
-Instigator for the “Recovering and Transforming Obsolescent Cultural Landscapes” Session -Moderator and presented, “Recovering and Transforming la Chaudière Islands and its Complex, Layers of Cultural Landscapes” |
| April 5, 2021 | University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, Prof. Greg Marinic:
– “Universities in Canada – Global Brutalism Seminars”, Delivered Seminar |
| April 1-3, 2021 | 36th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS), “After Form”
–“Integrating Indigenous Land-Based Learning into the Beginning Design Architectural Curriculum-Forms of Conduct” -Presented accepted paper, abstract published in the Conference Proceedings |
| March 31, 2021 | ARCH 670 Research Forum, Department of Architecture, UMASS Amherst, Prof. Carey Clouse:
-Design Research, Delivered Seminar on my Research and Design |
| March 24, 2021 | 109th ACSA Annual Meeting 2021, “Expanding the View: Prospect(s) for Architectural Education Futures”. Special Focus Session: “Grounding: Seeding Long-Term Change in a Time of Reaction” with Catherine Bonier (Moderator), Alpa Nawre, Jane Hutton, Carey Clouse and Aziza Chaouni |
| March 18, 2021 | 2021 Annual Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Conference, “100+1 Resilience”, (online):
-“Integrating Indigenous Land-Based Learning into the Architectural Curriculum-Forms of Conduct and Local TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge)” -Presents accepted paper |
| March 13, 2021 | Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats Canada and the Bachelor of Interior Design program at Algonquin College:
– “Mindful Conversations webinar series 2021: Design and Culture”, -Invited presenter and panelist, presented in and paired with Kavita Jain, Assoc. Professor and Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, VG University Jaipur, India. The theme of their paired talk was entitled, “Rethinking Building Craft as an Urban Catalyst”. https://mindfulhabitats.ca/rethinking-building-craft-as- an-urban-catalyst/ |
| Exhibitions + Juried Exhibitions | |
| May 20 – November 26, 2023 | “Recovering Shahjahanabad – the Old Walled City of Delhi, India – through Participatory Architectural Conservation and Ecological Urbanism” – Exhibition in Time Space Existence 2023, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy -Published in exhibition catalogue |
| June 20-23 2023 | “Recovering Shahjahanabad – the Old Walled City of Delhi, India – through Participatory Architectural Conservation and Ecological Urbanism” – Exhibited at the MSoA, Laurentian University during the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) “Designing for Dignity” 2023 Annual Conference |
| November 2021 | “Reducing Risk, Raising Resilience: Recovering the Public Spaces of Shahjahanabad through Participatory Conservation and Ecological Urbanism”
-Design proposals were selected for exhibition in the 2021 BUGAIK International Architecture Exhibition (4 panels) – BUGAIK Busan Ulsan Gyeongnam Chapter of Architectural Institute of Korea |
| Projects in Books and Print Catalogues | |
| May-November 2023 | “Recovering Shahjahanabad – the Old Walled City of Delhi, India – through Participatory Architectural Conservation and Ecological Urbanism” – Exhibition in Time Space Existence 2023, Palazzo Mora, Venice, part of the Venice Biennale-Published in exhibition catalogue timespaceexistence.com |
| November 2021 | “Reducing Risk, Raising Resilience: Recovering the Public Spaces of Shahjahanabad through Participatory Conservation and Ecological Urbanism”
-Design proposals were selected for exhibition in the 2021 BUGAIK International Architecture Exhibition (4 panels) – BUGAIK Busan Ulsan Gyeongnam Chapter of Architectural Institute of Korea |
| Exhibitions Curated | |
| March 2023 | Building Equality in Architecture – BEA(N):
-Celebration of International Women’s Day – Online Pan-Canadian Call for Women in Design Work https://www.instagram.com/bean.north/ |
| March 2022 | Building Equality in Architecture – BEA(N):
-Celebration of International Women’s Day – Online Pan-Canadian Call for Women in Design Work https://www.instagram.com/bean.north/ |
| 2023 | ACSA Annual Architecture Educator Awards-Diversity Achievement Honorable Mention |