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2022 Festival Schedule

Tuesday, May 3 | 12 PM ET

Tactical Practice: Digital Art and the Ethics of Design

Join us for a conversation on digital and new media art practices that resist surveillance capitalism, with Tristan Sauer and Martin Zeilinger.

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The DesignTO Festival Continues

The 2022 Festival Week may be over but there are still exhibitions, installations, and events to experience. Check out the 2022 Festival Schedule for more info.

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THANK YOU!

Thank you to everyone for coming out to celebrate art and design in the middle of January, making the 2022 "distanced and digital" DesignTO Festival a huge success!

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DesignTO is a non-profit cultural organization bringing communities together to celebrate design, by taking art and design out of the studio and into the urban realm.

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The proposal seeks to reflect on global warming, the protagonists are the Pingüino family (vases made of ceramic) who are emigrating and moving between plastic bottles and bags, their context has changed from ice and icebergs to plastic mountains.

Window Installation

Penguins, pollution and migration, by Andrés Lhima – CANCELLED

Jan 22

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Jan 30 2022

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A collaboration between Studio Bimbi and Elizabeth Lenny, the installation features two pieces featuring wood and stone. The dimension and form of the pieces are determined by the natural shape of the rocks and the wood encasing it.

Window Installation

Elizabeth Lenny X Studio Bimbi – POSTPONED

Jan 21

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Jan 30 2022

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Kick off the annual DesignTO Festival with its official Launch Party in the King East Design District, structured as a roaming neighbourhood party anchored by five Party Hubs.

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DesignTO Launch Party – POSTPONED

Jan 21

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Contemporary wood-turner Andreas Krätschmer presents an installation of 12 turned, carved and burned sculptural vessels. Influenced by the growing amount of wildfires in Canada and around the world, ‘Consumed’ explores themes of fragility, resilience, and the human relation with nature.

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Consumed

Jan 21

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Jan 30 2022

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Introducing...the OSF SK8 GHOULZ! Here to haunt the ageist, patriarchal and white supremacist dreams of those excluding teenagers as radical producers of culture. This multimedia window display will push for inclusion and diversity in skateboard/ design culture.

Window Installation

OSF SK8 GHOULZ – CANCELLED

Jan 21

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Jan 30 2022

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In ‘I Send You This Cadmium Red,’ the monochromes, grids, and chance operations that are emblematic of twentieth-century avant-garde art are reconstituted as a correspondence among colour swatches in the algorithmically organized Zoom interface that has become emblematic of this era of physically distanced sociability.

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I Send You This Cadmium Red

Jan 21 2022

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Jan 13 2023

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'Yue Moon 完滿' is a community-engaged public art installation rooted in Toronto’s Chinatown as part of Lunar New Year celebrations. A series of co-created lanterns illustrate Chinatown's histories, memories and intentions for the new year through a luminous outdoor experience.

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Yue Moon 完滿: Tiger With Wings 如虎添翼

Jan 27

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Feb 28 2022

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'The Seeds We Sow' is dedicated to the aftermath of the Second Artsakh War in Armenia. This installation consists of over four thousand pomegranate seeds: each represents a life lost during the latest conflict in the region.

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The Seeds We Sow

Jan 21

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Jan 30 2022

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This mural by Bianca Weeko Martin is a pair of interior domestic spaces — one meant to invoke the “particular” through sited details, the other presenting a “universal” room that could belong to anyone, or no one.

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Universal House/Particular House

Jan 21

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Jan 30 2022

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The reworking of Lauren Schaffer's 2019 Halifax exhibition, 'Dirty Sweep', will take place in her Toronto studio.

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Dirty Sweep

Jan 21

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Feb 13 2022

DesignTO is a non-profit arts organization that curates exhibitions, presentations and educational programming.

DesignTO is best known for the DesignTO Festival, Canada’s leading and largest annual design festival.

DesignTO was founded in 2010 as the Toronto Design Offsite Festival by a group of seven creatives and held its first annual event in January 2011.

The DesignTO Festival has grown 20 times bigger than year one.

The Festival went from 7 days to 10 days, spanning two weekends.

DesignTO brings people together to celebrate contemporary culture, provide opportunities for emerging talent, and engage the community with exceptional and accessible public programming.

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Designer Spotlight: Daniel Ling

Director and principal of Montgomery Sisam Architects, Daniel Ling joined us in Ideas Forum: Confronting the Housing Crisis.

Insider Series

Insider Series: In the Studio with Michelle Organ

I am a ceramicist, teacher and studio owner. I own and operate a membership-based studio in the city called The Shop, where I teach classes and workshops.