Atelier -30-

Journalism Research Lab
Atelier -30- is a collective space for students, researchers, and professors interested in academic research on journalism. Members of the lab engage in deep and critical reflection on past and present journalism, examining topics such as dominant and alternative forms of journalism, technologies, epistemologies, political and economic contexts, materiality, and journalists’ working conditions. Members of Atelier -30- share ideas, pursue individual or collaborative research projects, and organize meetings to explore methodological, conceptual, and other issues relevant to their current work.

Lab directors: Juliette De Maeyer and Mirjam Gollmitzer
Room: A-412
atelier-30.ca

Radical Empiricism Workshop

A transdisciplinary collective of artists and researchers dedicated to reviving radical empiricism. The project sits at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, computer engineering, sociology, the history of technology, and contemporary artistic practices.

Lab director: Thierry Bardini
Room: A-428

Artefact Lab

The Artefact Lab is a research and exploration space focused on media studies. It emphasizes the materialities of media across time periods, scales, cultures, and practices. Researchers affiliated with the lab work at the intersection of the following research areas:

• Media environments
• Sociotechnical imaginaries
• Media history
• Infrastructures
• Arts and aesthetics
• Philosophy and technology

Lab directors: Aleksandra Kaminska and Ghislain Thibault
Room: A-425
artefactlab.ca

Bricolab

Bricolab is a space for DOING. Doing to think, reflect, understand, respond, problematize, critique, analyze, and see differently. Our approaches are transdisciplinary, collaborative, critical, and engaged. We think with our hands (hands-on)while staying rooted in classic research methods in the social sciences and humanities.

We are tinkerers of analog, digital, and hybrid production. We explore material and sensory questions in an experimental, convivial, and at times playful manner. Bricolab is a space for doing through trial, error, and even accidents. We aim for prototypes, think speculatively, and take imaginative gestures and moods seriously.

Lab director (2022–2025): Natalie Doonan
Room: A-444
bricolab.org

Popular Culture, Knowledge, and Critique Lab (CPCC)

The CPCC Lab is both a pedagogical and research space dedicated to critical reflection on various aspects of culture—particularly its links to popular and media forms, and more broadly to social relations and power dynamics. Activities include monthly meetings where graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and professors share ongoing or completed projects. Discussions address conceptual tools, investigative strategies, analytical approaches, as well as theoretical, methodological, epistemological, ethical, and political challenges.

Lab directors: Line Grenier and David Grondin
Rooms: A-412 and A-419, Pavillon Marie-Victorin
514-343-6111, ext. 1464 or 5451

Research Group on Language, Organization, and Governance (LOG)

LOG is a hub for research and training in organizational communication.

Lab directors: Chantal Benoit-Barné, Boris Brummans, François Cooren, Stephanie Fox, and Daniel Robichaud

Rooms: A-426 and A-414
514-343-6111, ext. 5456
groupelog.com

Lab-Delta – Laboratory on Digital Rights and Alternative Technologies

The Lab-Delta is a space for research and action focused on rights and freedoms in the digital age. It serves as a forum for discussion on new social media and activist practices that emerge from them. The lab is especially interested in community-based digital infrastructures and alternative social networks that move away from corporate and capitalist logic. Guided by the principles of free and open-source software and culture, Lab-Delta seeks to produce research and tools to support a more open and democratic internet.

Lab directors: Stéphane Couture and Sophie Toupin (Concordia University)
Room: A-432, Pavillon Marie-Victorin
labdelta.ca

The Lab Engagé

The Lab Engagé builds bridges between academia and the community. It promotes research inspired by real-world practices where theory supports practical inquiry. Affiliated researchers focus on:

• Collaboration and conflict
• Intercultural communication
• Communication and mental health
• Alternative organizational forms
• Qualitative methods
• Health and organizations
• Care and healthcare systems

Lab directors: Stephanie Fox and Kirstie McAllum
labengage.org

LUDTIC – Laboratory on the Use and Design of Information and Communication Technologies

LUDTIC brings together professors and students interested in the cultural, social, and material dimensions of technologies, examining their development from design to implementation in various collectives (e.g., workgroups, organizations). This research leads to varied themes including transformations in work practices, technological change in organizations, the role of objects in collective action, distributed organizations, cooperative work, and cultural aspects of ICT design and usage.

Lab directors: Lorna Heaton and Stéphane Couture
Room: A-432
514-343-6111, ext. 5446