Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin, presents Speeding Toward Stasis:  Rethinking the Paradox of Streamlining. Speaking as a cultural historian, Meikle identifies an ambiguity at the centre of streamlining, where the design style offered both a euphoric celebration of speed and an antidote to its frightening pace. With an introduction by CCA Director Mirko Zardini.

Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab.

Featured speakers include:
Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Lab
Pierre Merlin, Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne
Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine
Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin
Robert Levine, California State University
Tamar Zinguer, The Cooper Union
Stephen Kern, Ohio State University
Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College
Guy Nordenson, Princeton University and Guy Nordenson & Associates

From 20 May to 12 October 2009, the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, presents Speed Limits. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed "that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed."

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 21 June 2008