Winning proposal of the 2025 Interuniversity Charrette: Moralisation de la place publique,by Vincente Levesque and Sara Deslauriers (Universit de Montral)The winners of the 2025 Interuniversity Charrette were recently announced during an awards ceremony held at the CCA.The annual competition, which was initiated in 1995 by the CCA, is open to students and recent graduates in architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, environmental design, urban design, industrial design, and graphic design.This years edition, called Cartography of the Invisible, was organized by the CCA in partnership with the Universit du Qubec Montral, the Universit de Montral, and McGill University. This edition challenged participants to uncover the hidden narratives within urban spaces through the lens of cartography and design.At a time when social inequalities, homelessness, and the erasure of marginalized histories continue to shape cities, this years competition invited participants to make the unseen visible. Using mapping as a design tool, interdisciplinary teams selected a public space such as a square, park, street, or station, and revealed its underrepresented stories. By tracing networks, flows, and overlooked activities, teams exposed the complexities embedded in the urban environment. Digital tools, GPS data, and innovative cartographic techniques played a crucial role in this process.The competition encouraged all students currently registered in Canadian universities and recent graduates, to rethink public space through spatial storytelling. Their proposals offered new ways to understand, interpret, and design the city, engaging with history, social justice, and the built environment.Members of the jury for this edition included architect, landscape architect and urban planner Peter Soland; curator and independent researcher Ji-Yoon Han; and Lola Sheppard, Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and a founding partner of Lateral Office.The jury evaluated a total of 68 submitted proposals. A total of 94 teams consisting of 258 students from 17 different universities registered for this edition.The winners will receive a selection of recent CCA publications as well as Friends of the CCA memberships with numerous benefits.The winners of the 2025 CCA Interuniversity Charrette include the following.First place:Moralisation de la place publiqueVincente Levesque and Sara Deslauriers (Universit de Montral)Moralisation de la place publique. Credit: Vincente Levesque and Sara Deslauriers (Universit de Montral)Moralisation de lespace public impressed the jury with the clarity and evocative power of its proposal on the history of Montreals Red Light District and the successive layers of erasure the neighborhood has undergone. Both subtle and playful, the sculptural installation engages with the shifting temporalities of urban experience, transforming a mirrored glass cube by day into a red-lit display window by nightrevealing the dynamics of visibility and invisibility, past and present, in the public space, said the jury.Second Place:Watching the watchersBadr Echchihab (McGill University) and Tho Hovsepian (McGill University)Watching the watchers. Credit: Badr Echchihab (McGill University) and Tho Hovsepian (McGill University)The project deals elegantly with the question of urban surveillance. Using the McGill campus as a site, the map documents the areas of digital visibility and invisibility, in relation to a network of surveillance cameras. The proposal of a gold-coloured protective cloth canopy, which weaves through the campus, makes legible where bodies can travel in order to avoid cones of surveillance. The jury appreciated the play of a very visible canopy which offers invisibility, said the jury.Third place:Almanac of Moving AppearancesJia Chen Mi (University of Toronto), Mam Lam Cheng (University of Michigan), and Patricia Ku (Harvard Graduate School of Design)Almanac of Moving Appearances. Credit: Jia Chen Mi (University of Toronto), Mam Lam Cheng (University of Michigan), and Patricia Ku (Harvard Graduate School of Design)This project reimagines the interior of the tramway as a public spacea civic space in motion, tracing a path through the city of Toronto. Its mapping seeks to reveal the intangible layers of the transit experience: conversations, digital screens, and scents. Through the tramway windows, citizens are invited to recognize programmed actions within the urban space, creating a scenography of everyday life. The plan and section of the tramway present it as an architectural element of the city. The jury was captivated by this perspective on urban life, said the jury.Two Special Mentions were also named:A fractured cartographyJana Gineina, Myvel Ibrahim, Sarah King, Marcus Yuen, and Michael Conway (Carleton University)The project documents the registration of pavement cracks in Ottawa as evidence of the socio-economic divide between wealthy areas of government institutions and areas of neglect and marginalization. An innovative map of urban pixels reveals this registration of pavement cracks, while an evocative model documents two seminal urban thoroughfares in the Capital, as sites, in which to legible these divides, said the jury.Cartographie de linaccessibleLauriane Rioux (Universit de Montral), Vincent Morrier (Universit Laval)This project explores the mental mapping of urban space by citizens with physical and visual impairments. Addressing a timely issue, it proposes minimalist interventions in Montreals Baldwin Park to improve navigation for individuals with visual impairments. Speculative before-and-after illustrations translate the research into making the invisible experiences of this population more tangible, said the jury.The post 2025 CCA Interuniversity Charrette winners announced appeared first on Canadian Architect.