Mapping Watery Relations at the Lachine Rapids

Architect and researcher Cecilia Chen maps how rushing waters shaped and were shaped by Montreal and its citizens.

MOVEMENTS OF WATER join us with others – with other humans and with a multitude and diversity of other entities including plankton and fish, plants and birds, minerals and metals, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and complex hybrid settlements upstream and downstream (benthic, lotic, riparian and human). …

MOVEMENTS OF WATER join us with others – with other humans and with a multitude and diversity of other entities including plankton and fish, plants and birds, minerals and metals, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and complex hybrid settlements upstream and downstream (benthic, lotic, riparian and human). …

This high quality, high resolution map (4.3MB) is a stunning visual display of history and geography. Download the notes and references for Cecilia Chen’s map. It is available for download as a PDF.

Cecilia Chen lives in Montreal where she is an architect and researcher.