Building 21 Community
Meet some of our collaborators, partners, and sister organizations at McGill, part of a greater community of exploration, curiosity, and striving for the ideal campus.
Creative arts and tech lab (catlab)
CATLAB was started in Spring 2022 by Darius Valevicius and Steven Lee. It is an informal club and Montreal-wide network intended to connect people interested in any form of art, computational or traditional, for making connections, starting collaborations, or just hanging out.
For this, we have semi-regular weekend hangouts at Building 21 or at cafes around the city. We are also running a series of workshops hosted at B21 and presented by club members, on a variety of computational and traditional art topics from watercolors to human-computer interactions.
For more information and to join the club Discord, please email darius.valevicius@gmail.com.
Intergenerational Mcgill (IGM)
IGM is a group of students, alumni, members of McGill Community for Lifelong Learning, McGill faculty, and staff with a common interest in building a university that embraces lifelong living and learning through interaction across generations. The Dean of Continuing Studies and the Associate Provost, Teaching and Academic Programs have been supporters of our endeavours since our inception.
It is hosted by and anchored at Building 21 (651 Sherbrooke Street West), an experiment in new, innovative, and beautiful ways to approach the university experience – an open lab where curious minds from all levels and disciplines are invited to come together to collaborate, to think, and to dream outside the traditional confines of their areas of study and expertise.
If you would like more information, please contact Jill Harrington at jilloharrington@gmail.com, Susan Biggs at susanbiggs66@gmail.com, or Catherine Main-Oster at catherinemainoster@gmail.com
McGill community for Lifelong Learning (MCLL)
MCLL provides learning opportunities for adults who want to continue learning for the joy of it, and who wish to share their knowledge, ideas, experience, and interests with others. No exams or grades to worry about, and no age limits! The result is a rich and dynamic learning environment.
As part of the McGill School of Continuing Studies, MCLL is led by volunteers and managed by a council elected from among its members. Members learn primarily through study groups that use peer learning approaches and are led by volunteer moderators. Peer learning and active participation are two cornerstones of the curriculum.
If you are interested in joining any of their lectures please contact caring.mcll@gmail.com by Wednesday evening for Friday lectures and Monday evening for Wonderful Wednesday lectures in the summer and we will send you the Zoom link.
For further information, please check out MCLL’s website or contact them at mcll.scs@mcgill.ca
McGill Neurotech
We are a group of students that builds devices that interface with the brain. We live at the intersection of neuroscience, computer science, engineering, and the human imagination.
Each year we form a team of over 30 students to create a brain-controlled application from start to finish, developing our own software, data pipelines, and EEG models.
We host workshops and demos to introduce students to neurotechnology and foster interest in the community.
In collaboration with professors at McGill, we conduct experimental studies to derive new insights from brain data.