Hello. We're artists working through collaborative social practice and creative research to understand the ways in which locality is shaped and enacted in the city.

About Broken City Lab

BROKEN CITY LAB MANDATE

Broken City Lab is an artist-led interdisciplinary creative research group that tactically disrupts and engages the city, its communities, and its infrastructures to reimagine the potential for action in the collapsing post-industrial city of Windsor, Ontario.

The processes of Broken City Lab remain grounded in the lab’s observations and concerns about Windsor, as a city, as a community, and as a network of infrastructure, and aim to do two things: first, Broken City Lab works through interventionist tactics to adjust, critique, annotate, and re-imagine the city that we encounter; secondly, through these interventions, the lab seeks to educate, inspire, and facilitate a new way of viewing the potential for interacting with and in the city.

Broken City Lab’s creative activity is located at the intersection of social practice, performance, and activism. The lab attempts to generate a new dialogue surrounding public participation and community engagement in the creative process, with a focus on the city as both a research site and workspace. It is not about doing the work of the city’s officials, or social workers, or politicians; it is about finding new creative ways to address our concerns with the city, while recognizing that our concerns may be similar to those of other community members.

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BROKEN CITY LAB RESEARCHERS

	Justin A. Langlois (Research Director) Justin A. Langlois is an artist working in integrated media and social practice.  He has an MFA in Visual Arts and a BA (Hons) in Communication Studies from the University of Windsor. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. He is currently an instructor in the School of Visual Arts at the University of Windsor and the Executive Director of the Arts Council Windsor & Region.
	Danielle Sabelli (Senior Research Fellow) Danielle Sabelli has a BA (Hons) in Visual Arts and Communications Studies, an MA in Communications and Social Justice, and is pursuing her JD in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor. She immigrated to Windsor from Leamington Ontario. She hopes to stay in Windsor Ontario, (if Windsor will let her) to witness and aid in the revolución.
	Michelle Soulliere (Senior Research Fellow) Michelle Soulliere is a BFA student at University of Windsor. She has a strong heritage connected to the Windsor area and has always been motivated by her surroundings in the city. She draws her inspiration from the Detroit River and the things in it, biking, alleys and the things in them, trains, train tracks, metal boxes, dumpsters, spray paint, thrift stores, dancing and dance floors. Michelle works with the street, concrete, paint markers, spray paint, duct tape and photocopies in the form of time based, digital, performance and street art. She is currently conducting research around the Windsor area under the alias Citynoise.
	Joshua Babcock (Senior Research Fellow) Joshua Babcock is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Windsor, Ontario. Joshua creates works that relate to themes such as environmental aesthetics, human traits in consumer products, death and its usage in marketing, societal violence, biological processes, human curiosity, and class identification. With a particular interest in scientific forms of presentation, he spends the majority of his time working with paint, ink, graphite, found objects, and photography. Joshua’s work is often a response, literally or figuratively, to the materials with which he works. He holds a B.A. in Visual Arts from the University of Windsor and is currently living and working in Windsor.
	Cristina Naccarato (Senior Research Fellow) Cristina Naccarato holds a BA (Hons) in English from the University of Windsor.  She’s an avid photographer who has spent the last few years documenting the city of Windsor.  She has also been involved in many grassroots initiatives, hosting shows on community radio stations, organizing shows and music festivals, and writing/editing numerous free-lance journals, zines and newspapers.   Temporarily leaving Windsor to move up to Toronto, she’ll be completing the MA Literatures of Modernity program at Ryerson University.  While she’s there, she plans on continuing her documentary endeavors, her grassroots initiatives, and especially, her research with Broken City Lab.
	Rosina Riccardo (Junior Research Fellow) Rosina Riccardo is currently working towards her Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Visual Arts at the University of Windsor. She is constantly striving to grow as an artist through various endevours and mediums the city has to offer. As well, she is particularly fascinated with things relating to popular culture, Canadian music and history.
	Daragh Sankey (Adjunct Research Fellow) Daragh Sankey is an award-winning writer-producer with the CTV Creative Agency and an independent filmmaker. He also runs the blog Angry Robot.
	Steven Leyden Cochrane (Adjunct Research Fellow) Steven Leyden Cochrane is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Tampa, Florida. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2006 and his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Windsor in 2009. Through his practice he seeks to challenge received understandings of art objects as repositories of meaning and vehicles for personal expression.
	Immony Men (Adjunct Research Fellow) Immony Men is a college graduate from the Dawson Cinema and Communication and is a graduate from the Concordia University: Interdisciplinary Studies Program. He is currently completing his MFA at the University of Windsor in Visual Arts.

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