Ateliers Co_Lab: Isabelle Jolicoeur

Join us in conversation with Isabelle Jolicoeur, Principal at Ateliers Co_Lab
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‍Ateliers Co-Lab is a firm of dynamic architects whose personalities and skills complement each other. As visionaries of the profession, the members of Ateliers Co-Lab are also involved in the architectural community through inspiring initiatives and awareness-raising activities. Like the Aetypik platform that has energized the Haitian architectural environment since its inception, and introduced architecture into our daily conversations through events and videos. Its members represent a dedicated architectural relief and receive prestigious awards and scholarships.

Ateliers Co-Lab aims to create an environment conducive to human thinking, creation, and interaction by creating a moving, sustainable architecture designed for its users, function and environment.

Isabelle Jolicoeur
Isabelle A. Jolicoeur is an architect, educator, writer-activist, and advocate working in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Montreal, Canada. She holds a B-Arch and a M-Arch with distinction from the University of Montreal, in Canada. She teaches undergraduate-level design studios at the University of Quisqueya, and resiliency within architecture at URBATER, a Master Program led by the State University UEH.

She is the founder of Aetypik, a platform that acts both as a virtual showcase on Haitian creativity but also as an incubator of formative and inspiring initiatives (conferences, workshops, etc.) for professionals and the public alike.

She is a registered architect in both Haiti and Quebec (Canada), and has practiced professionally in awardwinning practices in Montreal, before returning to her home country and co-founding the architecture office Ateliers Co-Lab. She has recently been published in Alaso, a space for feminist expression and dialogue andother platforms as an advocate for architecture.

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