Information about Lisa Rochon's upcoming schedule of appointments, including events such as seminars, interviews and panel discussions, will be posted here.


Guest Speaker, "Healing Violent Cities", Canadian Federation of University Women, Toronto,

  • March 9, 2010

Guest Speaker, "The Impact of Finnish Architecture on Canadian Design", Symposium on Finland, Canadian Journalism Program at Massey College in U of T

  • Massey College, March 25, 2010
  • Canadian Journalism Program at Massey College in U of T

Keynote Speaker, "What Makes a Great City?"  

  • City of Mississauga, April 29, 2010

Lisa is a Commissioning Editor for Alphabet City, MIT Press. She contributed a photo-essay to "Trash" (2007) (see below), and is creating a short, speculative photo-essay for the upcoming "Air" (2010).

  • You can read more about Alphabet City here.
  • Lisa's photo-essay "Streets of Trash" is available here as a PDF document

Lisa is a Jury Member for the 2010 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal and Archirectural Firm Award.

  • Nomination Deadlines 11 December 2009
  • Read about the RAIC Gold Medal Award here
  • Read about the RAIC Architectural Firm Award here

Lisa is a Jury Member for the 2010 Festival International de jardins/ International Garden Festival, Jardins de Métis / Reford Garden international design competition (2010), a landscape design event,which has attracted 300 submissions from around the world.  

  • Nominations for this competition closed on 6 November 2009
  • Read about the Festival and the current competition here

Lisa Rochon is a member of the external advisory board of The City Institute at York University (CITY)  

  • The City Institute was founded in 2006 as one of York University’s organized research units.
  • Visit the CITY website here


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