With a mission to highlight Montreal’s identities, the MEM — Centre des mémoires montréalaises was commissioned by the City of Montreal and the Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Inclusion to design an outdoor exhibition in Chinatown that would reflected the community’s diversity, history and resilience in the face of past and present discrimination and challenges.
Diane Bernier Design (DBD) rose to the challenge of creating, in a short space of time, a layout that would meet the requirements of the distancing measures specific to the period of the pandemic, proposing an outdoor route and a thematic and formal adaptation of the recycled structures offered by the Bureau d’intégration des nouveaux arrivants à Montréal (BINAM).