Innovation

Innovation: from spark to full blaze

Charles-Mathieu Brunelle has in-depth experience and expertise in managing cultural organizations and enterprises. Since 1999, he has headed the TOHU Cité des arts du cirque, a major $72.6 million cultural and urban development project. Since 1985, he has regularly sat on judging panels and consultative committees set up by the governments of Quebec and Canada as part of their cultural policies. Charles-Mathieu Brunelle has also put his knowledge and communication skills to work as a teacher at Concordia University and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

Conference summary:

In 1999, TOHU brought a multidisciplinary team together around a great vision: to build a world capital of the circus arts in Montreal, between a freeway and a landfill site. The partners took up the challenge, and it was no small one! They backed the project and shared the risks. Charles-Mathieu Brunelle has been at the helm of TOHU since day one. He told of its five years of building and maintaining momentum, of painstaking work, of listening and leading rather than taking the path of least resistance five years of daring to find a whole new and uniquely innovative way of doing things.

Mr. Brunelle's presence was made possible through ICI Environnement, which groups together 15 university centres active in the field of environmental engineering, science and technology.