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Pursue one’s personal, original, creative ideas by participating in an active scholar community culture

A Unique 3rd Space
Access to Building 21 to work on their ideas

Community
Be part of an interdisciplinary community of scholars who are pursuing independent projects in parallel

‍Scholar Events
Attend regularly held scholar events that facilitate accountability, feedback, sharing perspectives, collective inspiration, and momentum building

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Apply to be a BLUE Resident

BLUE Residents receive space, an interdisciplinary community, mentorship, access to networks, and training to develop their research at Building 21.

Current BLUE Residencies (Winter 2025)

BLUE Residency

Semester-long residency to pursue a project of your own design

BLUE for Ocean Plastics (Winter 2025)

New paradigms to tackle the ocean plastics crisis with 4ocean

BLUE for Cancer Treatment (Winter 2025)

Radically improving outcomes in cancer treatment with Farcast Biosciences

Applications closed for Winter 2025

Visit us!

We run multiple events every week, either by us or by communities hosted at Building 21. All are welcome to join.

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Lightning Talks⚡

Eclectic idea sharing with crowd-sourced critique from the interdisciplinary community.

Sparrow Writing Society

McGill's writing collective, a space to stay on track of your creative writing projects.

WWE Whiteboard

A large whiteboard, an inquisitive audience, all to wrestle with your ideas and confront “so what”s.

Soup & PhD 🍲

Are you doing a PhD and finding it hard to meet other students? Find your community over a bowl of warm soup.

Collectif La Collation

Atelier de poésie La Collation; Rejoignez-nous pour un atelier d’écriture poétique avec le Collectif de poésie La Collation!

McSWAY Poetry Workshop

Poetry writing workshops for artists of all levels.

B21 Potluck 🥣

Nothing like catching up with old friends over good food, yes? Join us for our B21 potluck, where everyone brings bits and bites.

Douze à deux

Live co-working session hosted every Sunday in Montréal to work on passion projects

McGill Neurotech

Creating brain-computer interface (BCI) applications from start to finish with a yearly team.

Encode Justice Canada

AI Ethics and Policy. Fighting for human rights accountability and justice in the age of AI

Fireside

Cozy fireside conversations with hackers, builders, and tech entrepreneurs

SNAC (Student Nutrition Accessibility Club)

Reacting to the high cost of food and inaccessibility of healthy eating on campus, SNAC seeks to provide nutritious resources to the McGill community in a sustainable manner.