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- 2026-04-03 Montréal Shin Koseki joins Quebec's Chief Scientist for launch of scientific diplomacy chairs ecosystem event
- 2026-04-01 Montréal Eddy Nono receives Université de Montréal's ESP Rosdev Scholarship for excellence in planning research award
- 2026-03-26 Montréal Eddy Nono and Frédérique Roy lead Critical AI Fresk workshop at RQEDI equity and inclusion pre-forum event
- 2026-02-18 Montréal Frédérique Roy receives VRM's end of thesis grant scholarship
- 2026-02-13 Montréal Eddy Nono leads workshop on AI ethics and data management at UdeM's Millénium Québecor entrepreneurship bootcamp lecture
- 2026-02-11 Montréal Episode 6 – Urban Narratives, Crossing Perspectives with Peter Soland podcast
- 2026-02-10 Montréal Rashid Mushkani presents AI Pluralism Index at UQAM, linking AI governance to democratic accountability lecture
- 2026-02-04 Budapest Leandry Jieutsa presents PhD research on responsible municipal AI governance at GeoInno 2026 in Budapest event
- 2026-01-29 Montréal Sarah Tannir completes thesis on AI's impact on urban residents' mental health after three years at the UNESCO Chair appointment
- 2026-01-28 Montréal Episode 5 – Living Winter, Smart and Inclusive Spaces with Victor Bouguin podcast
- 2026-01-21 Montréal Episode 4 – Urban Mobility, AI in Motion with Eddy Nono podcast
- 2026-01-20 Montréal Eddy Nono presents AI and citizen mobility governance research at LAGORA Scientific Exchange Day in Chicoutimi outreach
- 2026-01-16 Montréal EVADIA+ and CAIAG closing conference wraps up two years of research on AI, public space and citizen participation outreach
- 2026-01-15 Montréal “New Orleans Beyond” exhibition opens at Université de Montréal, showing Mississippi riverfront design proposals event
- 2026-01-09 Paris A Global Label for Rivers in Commons update
- 2026-01-07 Montréal Sirine Sellami joins the UNESCO Chair for a three-month internship on flâneur experience in Mediterranean coastal cities appointment
- 2025-12-23 Montréal UNESCO Chair closes a year rich in research and exchanges, looks ahead to 2026 outreach
- 2025-12-21 Lausanne Frédérique Roy presents research on digital surveillance of environmental activists at IDES Conference in Lausanne event
- 2025-12-19 Montréal Rashid Mushkani wins $10,000 faculty young researchers prize to share AI and public space research with policymakers award
- 2025-12-18 Montréal Episode 3 – Rethinking the City Through Universal Design with Pierre-Étienne Gendron-Landry podcast
- 2025-12-11 Montréal Episode 2 – Designing the City - Between Social and Digital with Shin Koseki podcast
- 2025-12-05 Montréal Episode 1 – AI, Between Science and Imagination with Hugo Bérard podcast
- 2025-12-05 Montréal Eddy Nono receives the Maison des aires publiques et internationales Scholarship award
- 2025-11-28 Montréal UNESCO Chair launches podcast series on urban planning and AI, hosted by Leandry Jieutsa and Roxane Kasprzyk podcast
- 2025-11-11 Online Rashid Mushkani on SOUR Podcast - Co‑Producing AI for Cities podcast
- 2025-11-05 Montréal Eddy Nono presents poster on AI and urban mobility governance at IVADO Digital Futures 2025 lecture
- 2025-11-05 Montréal Closing Conference - AI, Public Space and Citizen Participation event
- 2025-11-03 Québec Frédérique Roy presents research on digital surveillance of climate justice activists at Quebec-France conference outreach
- 2025-10-25 Montréal Jennifer Franchesca Lopez Alvaro joins the UNESCO Chair to study AI's social impacts on citizen participation appointment
- 2025-10-20 Zurich Adèle Kremer joins ETH/EPFL joint master's program in urban and territorial design outreach
- 2025-10-14 Montréal Majdi Hunter-Batal joins the UNESCO Chair to study tactical urbanism as a tool for riverbank redevelopment appointment
- 2025-10-08 Montréal What Urban Planning Can Do About AI publication
- 2025-09-29 Copenhagen Mostovaja and Koseki publish chapter on AI bias in architectural visualizations in Danish Architectural Press anthology publication
- 2025-09-18 Montréal Shin Koseki appointed IVADO Researcher appointment
- 2025-09-13 Montréal EVADIA+ team runs AI Fresk workshop to reflect on AI's role and impacts in urban planning activity
- 2025-09-03 The World Street Review - A participatory framework for inclusive streets publication
- 2025-09-02 Montréal UNESCO Chair begins a new academic year with upcoming events at the Faculty of Environmental Design update
- 2025-08-26 Montréal Andréanne Bernard submits thesis on women’s positive solitude in Montreal’s urban parks through an ethics of care lens outreach
- 2025-08-21 Vancouver LIVS, Community-Aligned Images for Inclusive Public Spaces lecture
- 2025-08-18 Montréal Different Eyes, Different Streets, How Montréal Residents See Public Space publication
- 2025-08-14 Montréal Eddy Nono receives the IVADO IAR 3 Research Scholarship funding
- 2025-08-06 Paris Aleksandra Mostovaja admitted to Sciences Po Paris Urban School to study large-scale metropolitan governance update
- 2025-07-24 Montréal Adèle Kremer completes distinguished thesis on homeless women's experiences in Montreal's public spaces event
- 2025-07-12 Montréal Rashid Mushkani wins third prize at Mila Speed Science contest for talk on AI and urban accessibility award
- 2025-07-02 Montréal Eddy Nono presents research on AI and urban mobility governance at OBVIA scientific day lecture
- 2025-06-27 Montréal UNESCO Chair hosts first public Critical AI Fresk workshop at INRS-Centre Urbanisation Culture Société activity
- 2025-06-25 Paris Shin Koseki presents Montreal at the XVIII UCCN Conference in Paris lecture
- 2025-06-20 New Orleans "New Orleans Beyond" exhibition showcases 23 students' design proposals for the Mississippi riverfront event
- 2025-06-18 Montréal EVADIA+ launches public survey on the future of Montreal's Victoria-Précision site in Sainte-Marie update
- 2025-06-12 Miami Leandry Jieutsa receives honourable mention at AI and Cities Forum for research on urban AI governance award
- 2025-06-10 Montréal Eddy Nono and Frédérique Roy present master's research at Colloque Interordre at UQAM lecture
- 2025-05-28 Montréal Frédérique Roy and Hugo Bérard present the Critical AI Fresk at The Great Transition 2025 conference outreach
- 2025-05-25 Montréal UNESCO Studio New Orleans completes first week of sensory fieldwork along the Mississippi River outreach
- 2025-05-24 Montréal EVADIA+ tests AI participation tools with Centre-Sud residents at Victoria Précision planning workshop outreach
- 2025-05-17 Montréal 15th UNESCO Studio opens in New Orleans, bringing together students from five universities to study the Mississippi outreach
- 2025-05-16 Montréal First public presentation of Évadia+ at the AI and Cities Forum outreach
- 2025-05-12 Montréal EVADIA+ partners advance AI-assisted public consultation tool for Montreal's Victoria Précision housing site outreach
- 2025-05-11 Niagara Falls UNESCO Chair collaborates with photographer Alexandre Campeau-Vallée on Niagara Falls museum exhibition opening in 2026 outreach
- 2025-05-10 Montréal Kelvin E.Y. Low delivers online lecture on sensory approaches to urban heritage and social memory outreach
- 2025-05-02 Montréal Eddy Nono receives 2025 Mosaïque Excellence Scholarship for leadership in equity and inclusion outreach
- 2025-04-27 Montréal Frédérique Roy and Sarah Tannir win prizes at Colloque Perspective 360° for research on AI and urban surveillance outreach
- 2025-04-25 Québec Shin Koseki joins international delegation to evaluate Université Laval's architecture programs outreach
- 2025-04-16 Montréal Edgard Schnepp wins two student prizes at the Colloque 360° for research on digital technology and immigrant suburbanization outreach
- 2025-04-14 Montréal New Publication: Responsible AI deployment in cities by Jieutsa & Koseki in Oxford Intersections: AI in Society outreach
- 2025-04-09 Montréal UNESCO Studio team visits "Memoria 2020" exhibition on New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians at UdeM Gallery outreach
- 2025-04-07 Montréal EVADIA+ partners workshop examines AI bias risks and the balance between automation and human creativity in urban planning outreach
- 2025-04-01 New Orleans UNESCO Studio team scouts New Orleans ahead of May workshop on the Mississippi waterfront outreach
- 2025-03-31 Montréal UNESCO Studio joins ICCAR to advise UNESCO's global network of 700 cities on inclusive urban development outreach
- 2025-03-20 Montréal UdeM's School of Urban Planning funds the 15th UNESCO Studio, set to take place in New Orleans funding
- 2025-03-18 Montréal Sinem Guney joins the UNESCO Chair for a three-month internship on AI-assisted public space design appointment
- 2025-03-14 Montréal Sarah Tannir receives VRM end of thesis grant for research on urban AI and mental health award
- 2025-03-12 Barcelona Fairness and non-discrimination in urban AI publication
- 2025-03-11 Montréal EVADIA+ partners meet at Mila to close framing phase and begin development of inclusive AI tool event
- 2025-03-10 Barcelona Datathink seminar in Barcelona explores AI governance, impacts and opportunities for cities teaching
- 2025-02-27 Montréal Rashid Mushkani receives $10,000 AI scholarship from Université de Montréal for inclusive public space research funding
- 2025-02-21 Montréal Sarah Tannir wins second prize at OBVIA health and AI colloquium for poster on urban AI and mental health award
- 2025-02-01 Québec Shin Koseki delivers keynote on responsible AI governance for Quebec urban planning organizations lecture
- 2025-01-27 Vancouver Hugo Bérard co-organizes Workshop on Creativity and Generative AI at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver teaching
- 2025-01-20 Québec Frédérique Roy receives LOJIQ travel grant to attend RightsCon human rights and technology conference in Taipei funding
- 2025-01-05 Vancouver Rashid Mushkani presents MID-Space AI dataset at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver publication
- 2024-12-15 Montréal Happy holidays from the UNESCO Chair event
- 2024-12-04 Brussels Montreal, Geneva and Brussels universities launch G3 seminar on governing the digital and ecological transition funding
- 2024-12-02 Montréal Shin Koseki leads co-creation workshop on the future of the St. Lawrence River at UdeM's "Une seule santé urbaine" teaching
- 2024-11-25 Montréal Eddy Nono joins the UNESCO Chair to study citizen participation in AI-driven urban mobility governance appointment
- 2024-11-13 Tunis Best Paper at the Scan24 conference award
- 2024-10-07 Montréal "Phnom Penh Against the Current" exhibition opens at Université de Montréal after Cambodian premiere event
- 2024-10-01 Métis-sur-Mer Jardins de Métis summer workshop tests regenerative landscape approaches with 16 planning students teaching
- 2024-09-25 Montréal UNESCO Chair launches EVADIA+, a partnership to develop inclusive AI for urban public space participation update
- 2024-09-17 Sutton L'Ensemble densification lab presents first housing projects in Brome-Missisquoi to Sutton city council lecture
- 2024-09-11 Montréal Montreal Call to Action Unveiled at Innovate4Cities 2024 outreach
- 2024-09-04 Montréal Koseki and Jieutsa publish La Presse article on how 5G will transform Montreal's urban landscape publication
- 2024-08-15 Online Leandry Jieutsa lectures on AI governance in cities for Hamburg's Cityscience Lab digital lecture series lecture
- 2024-08-08 Montréal Emmanuel Beaudry Marchand departs the UNESCO Chair after four years developing the Nplex platform appointment
- 2024-08-02 Phnom Penh Khmer LGBTQIA+ dance company performs at UNESCO Studio 2024 closing ceremony in Phnom Penh event
- 2024-06-04 Métis-sur-Mer Shin Koseki lectures on the "Right to the River" at the International Garden Festival of Métis-sur-Mer lecture
- 2024-05-13 Phnom Penh UNESCO Studio convenes in Phnom Penh to study the city's relationship with the Mekong River teaching
- 2024-05-10 Montréal Rashid Mushkani receives $83,000 FRQSC doctoral scholarship for AI-based streetscape inclusion research scholarship
- 2024-05-06 Montréal Shin Koseki receives G3 funding for tri-university collaboration on digital and ecological transition in cities funding
- 2024-02-01 Montréal UNESCO Chair publishes working report on digital governance in cities, drawn from "Insights Into" webinar series publication
- 2024-01-19 Montréal Université de Montréal funds three UNESCO Chair international projects on AI governance and river urbanism funding
- 2024-01-17 Montréal Shin Koseki becomes Mila Affiliate Member appointment
- 2023-12-14 Delft Assessing inclusion in public space using image-based methods publication
- 2023-11-29 Montréal Jérôme Chenal and Shin Koseki host roundtable on AI and digital transformation in urban planning event
- 2023-11-23 Montréal Université de Montréal and Hanoi Architectural University sign five-year academic partnership update
- 2023-10-27 Thunder Bay UNESCO Chair students travel 1,400 km through Ontario's Great Lakes region to study riverine landscapes activity
- 2023-10-16 Montréal Nearly $300,000 for new inclusive and sustainable real estate models in the Brome-Missisquoi MRC funding
- 2023-10-12 Montréal UNESCO Chair unveils Nplex, a web platform showcasing exemplary residential design in Montreal update
- 2023-10-02 Montréal UNESCO and the University of Montreal renew the mandate of the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape update
- 2023-09-14 Montréal UNESCO Chair launches "Insights Into" webinar series on emerging technologies and urban inequality event
- 2023-07-07 Montréal UNESCO Chair receives $24,000 to launch NULAB, a digital knowledge-sharing hub for planning students funding
- 2023-06-28 Québec UNESCO Chair joins Quebec Maritime Network's “Avenir Maritime” congress to advance St. Lawrence research event
- 2023-05-26 Montréal Chloé Henri wins $5,000 Sid Lee Architecture Master’s Award for Indigenous cultural landscape design scholarship
- 2023-05-09 Hanoi UNESCO Studio brings together international researchers in Hanoi to reimagine the Red River waterfront teaching
- 2023-05-06 Hanoi UNESCO Studio students meet Canadian Ambassador in Hanoi to discuss Red River development event
- 2023-05-03 Montréal Frédérique Roy receives $40,000 FRQ scholarship for her research on anonymity and urban technologies scholarship
- 2023-04-18 Montréal Roxane Kasprzyk joins the UNESCO Chair to study intimacy and sociability in waterfront public spaces outreach
- 2023-04-13 Montréal UNESCO Chair receives funding to develop an inclusive user-experience protocol for AI in urban design funding
- 2023-03-20 Venice Five UNESCO Chairs pledge to making cities more inclusive update
- 2023-03-17 Rome Datathink seminar in Rome explores digital data and AI in architecture and urban planning teaching
- 2023-03-10 Montréal Research day on inclusive knowledge “indigeneity, public space and artificial intelligence” event
- 2023-02-15 Montréal Andréanne Bernard joins the UNESCO Chair to study women's solitude and inclusion in public spaces lecture
- 2023-02-07 Montréal Cassandre Chatonnier joins the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape appointment
- 2023-01-24 Montréal Leandry Jieutsa joins the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape lecture
- 2023-01-23 Montréal UNESCO Chair awards four Sid Lee Architecture prizes to outstanding student design projects scholarship
- 2023-01-09 Montréal Meetings with the UN Under-Secretary General responsible for UN Habitat event
- 2022-12-08 Québec Shin Koseki presents Fluvialities project at UQTR river ecology seminar event
- 2022-11-30 Montréal Quebec's Ministry of Higher Education funds Nplex, a platform showcasing excellence in residential design funding
- 2022-11-21 Montréal Amel Gherbi-Rahal joins the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape appointment
- 2022-11-16 Montréal Adèle Kremer receives $5,000 master's discovery scholarship to study homeless women in urban space scholarship
- 2022-11-11 Paris UNESCO Chairs convene in Paris for 30th anniversary, pledge international think tank on urban inclusion event
- 2022-11-07 Montréal Dr. Toumadher Ammar joins the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape appointment
- 2022-11-03 Corner Brook UNESCO Chair students survey Newfoundland coastal villages as part of Fluvialities river research activity
- 2022-10-13 The World UN-Habitat and Mila publish joint guide on the risks and governance of AI in cities publication
- 2022-10-05 Paris Shin Koseki meets Vietnamese and Cambodian ambassadors in Paris to advance river cities research event
- 2021-05-05 Montréal Shin Koseki named director of the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape appointment