🇬🇧🎥 Anglo Cinema: Jane Campion, Gus Van Sant, Ken Loach, Harmony Korine, David Lynch ⚜️🎥 Quebec Cinema: Michel Brault, Denys Arcand, Pierre Perrault 🇮🇷🎥 Iranian Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Matthew Rankin 🏳️‍🌈🎥 Queer Cinema: Plainclothes, History of Sound, The Five Devils, The Skin I Live in, Mysterious Skin, My Own Private Idaho. ⚜️🎧 Quebec/Canada Music: Leif Vollebekk, S Carey, River Tiber, Doldrums, Les louanges, Jérôme 50, Men I Trust, Karkwa, Louis-Jean Cormier 🇺🇸🎧 USA/British Music: Animal Collective, Foals, Thom Yorke, Nico Muhly, James Blake, Fleet Foxes, King Krule, Sampha, Jai Paul, Daniel Cesar, Jose Gonzalez,, Omar Apollo, Mac Demarco, Toro y Moi, Jon Hopkins, Panda Bear 🇧🇷🎧 Brazilian Music: O Terno, Tim Bernardes, Chico Buarque, Maria Bethânia, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elis Regina, Gilberto Gil, ... 📖 BOOKS: A Pattern Language (Alexander), Chairs are where People Go (Misha Glouberman), Light at the Edge of the World (Wade Davis), Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)

🥣🫂 🧑‍🌾🏘️ 💞 After visiting the "Soup!" project in Detroit City, Michigan, USA, I was inspired to import the project to my hometown in Montreal. I grew vegetables and turned them into soups. I then invited my neighbors for monthly dinners where they would have to vote for a local project lead by an individual in our community. The money raised during the event was granted to the project that the community deemed most important at the moment. This event ran for many years and was called "Soupe Locale". Provincial and municipal governments supported the project and today it exists in different parts of the Quebec province and contributed to hundreds of microfunded projects, stronger neighborhoods and a rise in civic participation. 🏡🏡🏡 I co-founded a non-profit that develops the very first out-of-market and perpetually affordable cohousing projects in Montreal (www.villageurbain.org)

I love learning about science I love teaching about urban planning, design, communities I love sharing project ideas for a better society

🍷🍜 I'll invite you out to new places in your own city! I don't like food prepping when I travel so I will invite you for a dinner at some restaurants. However, I do enjoy helping on cooking duties whenever needed.

🎸 I am infinitely curious about musical traditions. So far I've learned musical traditions from the Appalachian region, Veracruz, Turkey, Bali, Brazil, Georgia and Hanoi. 🗣️ I'm a language nerd. I'm the kind of guy who reads grammar rules before going to bed. I'll want to learn your language! 🎥 I studied cinema, we can watch and analyse films :) 🧗I usually have my climbing shoes in my bag. Indoor bouldering is my favorite sport. It's challenging, brainy, non competitive, fun, and a good workout!