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Research for this Introduction has been generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through a Standard Research Grant and an Insight Grant, and through Dr. Darroch’s 2015 Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London. We are indebted to Dr. Kurt G. F. Helfrich, Chief Archivist and Collections Manager, Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library, and to Bethany J. Antos, Archivist at the Rockefeller Archive Center, as well as to the estates of Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Carpenter, and Jaqueline Tyrwhitt for their considerable support. Aspects of research on the history of Explorations have been published in Michael Darroch, 2008, “Bridging Urban and Media Studies: Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and the Explorations Group, 1951–1957,” Canadian Journal of Communication 33: 147–69; Michael Darroch and Janine Marchessault, 2009, “Anonymous History as Methodology: The Collaborations of Sigfried Giedion, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, and the Explorations Group (1951–55),” in Andreas Broeckmann and Gunalan Nadarajan (Eds.), Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology: Historical Investigations on the Sites and the Migration of Knowledge (pp. 9–27), Weimar: VDG; Michael Darroch, 2014, “Sigfried Giedion und die Explorations: Die anonyme Geschichte der Medienarchitektur,” translation by Johannes Passman, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 11:144–54; Michael Darroch and Janine Marchessault, 2014, “Introduction: Urban Cartographies,” in Michael Darroch and Janine Marchessault (Eds.), Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban (pp. 3–21), Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press; Michael Darroch, 2016a, “Giedion and Explorations: Confluences of Space and Media in Toronto School Theorisation,” in Norm Friesen (Ed.), Transatlantic Developments in Media and Communication Studies (pp. 62–87), Basel: Springer International; Michael Darroch, 2016b, “The Toronto School: Cross-Border Encounters, Interdisciplinary Entanglements,” in David W. Park and Peter Simonson (Eds.), The International History of Communication Studies (pp. 276–301), New York: Routledge.
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