#intersections vol.4: Digital Creativity and Social Impact

On Tuesday, May 2, more than 200 people gathered at the CCA for the fourth volume of Printemps numérique’s #intersections series on Digital Creativity

and Social Impact. During the conference, four panelists presented projects in which they used digital technology to find solutions to social issues. David

Usher,founder of the HumanImpact Lab, discussed digital tools to
fightclimate change. Audra Renyi, executivedirector of World Wide Hearing, explained how she used data recovery to
addresshearing loss. Evelyne Drouin presented GenieMob, a project using innovative methods to help young peopletakeownership of technology. Cassie Rhéaume, head ofthe Montréal chapter of Ladies Learning Code, announced a new movementfor digital literacy. On the other side of the CCA, the Experience zonewelcomedseven

creative digital projects selected in collaboration

• with Esplanade. Among them were Clouds Over Sidra, a virtual-reality film for the United Nations by Gabo Arora and Chris Milk that takes viewers through the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan;Climate

• Clock by Human Impact Lab, a live projection integrating the measurement of time into our relationship with

• global warming; In/Future by Jon Yu and Alejandro Figueroa // Mythologi, an immersive poetic documentary exploring Montréal

• identity through social dialogue; Matrioshka Connection,an intelligent interactive outdoor public furniture project combining technology and art to encourage

• social interaction; Les deux pieds dans la marge by Emily Laliberté // Funambules Médias, a series of socially engaged films co-created

• with people experiencing different forms of exclusion; Sanctuary by Yasmeen Leclerc, which combats harmful stereotypes against refugees through interventions and an

• augmented-reality application; and Fonofone by Yves Daoust, a powerful sound-creation tool and live-performance instrument in an iPad app designed specifically for education. Photo

credits: Jean-Michael Seminaro, photographer.