Abstract
This paper revisits the “Metro/Education” project, an unrealized proposal for turning the underused spaces connected to Montreal’s underground metro system into a learning environment. Developed by architects Michel Lincourt and Harry Parnass in 1970, Metro/Education offered an alternative response to the campus plans for the newly created Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The project shows how design was mobilized towards the strategic reorganization of education as part of a wider urban “system.” It offers a concrete illustration of how architecture and urban design, influenced by the discourse on megastructures, and informed by systems theory and environmental design, sought to redefine the role of designers as programmers of processes rather than designers of things. The paper also speculates as to how such intellectual emancipatory reconfigurations could go hand in hand with urban regeneration politics.
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