Screening times:
Thursday, December 4, 6:30 PM - director attending via videolink! SOLD OUT
Saturday, December 6, 2:00 PM - director attending via videolink!
*Peggy Cameron and Zachary Gough will also attend Thursday Dec 4 screening to speak to the local perspective.
*Peggy Camerson will also attend the Saturday December 6 matinee screening to speak to the local perspective.
Dr. Brian Doucet | Canada | 2025 | 86m
Thinking Beyond the Market is a full-length documentary by Dr Brian Doucet, Associate Professor in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo.
This film takes you across Canada to learn about policies, programs and projects that are already happening and already having a positive impact on addressing the housing crisis.
From using public land to build non-market housing in Kitchener and Whistler, and inspiring Indigenous-led projects in Vancouver, to strong tenant protections and rent control in British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, the examples featured in this film demonstrate how many important solutions are making a difference in communities big and small!
The film features interviews with more than 30 planners, policymakers, politicians, developers, residents and housing advocates from coast to coast. The film inspires and challenges us to think about both the root causes of the housing crisis and transformative solutions.
Dr Brian Doucet is an author, filmmaker, photographer, researcher, award-winning teacher and Associate Professor in Planning at the University of Waterloo. His work critically examines housing, gentrification, displacement, transportation and neighbourhood change. Born and raised in Toronto, he lived in the Netherlands from 2004 – 2017, where he received his PhD in geography from Utrecht University in 2010. Since returning to Canada in 2017, he has held a Canada Research Chair, been awarded six major SSHRC research grants and was a 2025 winner of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Teaching Excellence Award. He is the co-author of the award-nominated book, Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto: a visual analysis of change, and a co-editor of the four volume book series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities.
For more on Dr Doucet’s research, including links to some of the reports and articles informing this film, visit https://uwaterloo.ca/planning/profiles/brian-doucet
Dr Doucet is a frequent commentator in the media. You can read is articles in The Conversation here: https://theconversation.com/profiles/brian-doucet-1022733
Peggy Cameron and Zach Gough will also be attending the post-film Q&A on Thursday December 4 to give a local Halifax perspective!
Peggy Cameron, co-founder of Friends of Halifax Common, lives in a flat on Charles Street since the 1990s. She is a biologist with a master’s in environmental studies and an owner and vice-president of Black River Wind Ltd. Her research, writing, art and public engagement focus on climate change solutions. She is a former Chair of Ecology Action Centre and founding member of both the Transportation and Energy Issues Committees. Her recent research report Buildings For the Climate Crisis - a Halifax Case Study found that the taller the building the disproportionally greater the upfront greenhouse gas emissions; and, that demolitions are not just a double whammy for the climate crisis but also gut affordability and cause inflation. The report offers many better solutions for densification that work within the existing built environment and avoid demolition - the greenest, most affordable building is one that already exists. At the turn of the century she and her community successfully stopped the Robie St widening and now plan to do it again in 2025. She loves spending time in nature.
Zachary Gough is an artist that works collaboratively and responsively with other artists, community groups and organizations to promote alternative economic systems and toward deconstructing the capitalist viral value paradigm and its manifestations. He often uses participatory and immaterial media, such as radio and performance, to address materialist concerns, such as labour, power, debt, education, and liberation. Zach is a member of "Weird Allan Kaprow", a post-colonial conceptual karaoke art-band, in which he goes by "Joseph Beuys II Men". Zach is a graduate of the art and social practice MFA program at Portland State University in Oregon. He was recently named the Pierre Lassonde Artist in Residence at Mount Allison University. Zach has taught classes at Portland State University in Oregon and at NSCAD University in K'jipuktuk, Mi'kmaqi (Halifax, NS).
Tickets $12 ($11.40 cash at the door if available)
Punch passes welcome, please email movies@carbonarc.ca to reserve
Thanks to our communications partner for this event, Friends of Halifax Common!
