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DesignTO Festival - January 20–29, 2023
The 2023 Festival Schedule is Live!
The Festival returns to bring people together to design a more sustainable, just, and joyful future.
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DesignTO Festival - January 27, 2023
King East Design District Party presented by DesignTO
Join DesignTO for a celebration of design and community across Toronto’s King East Design District (KEDD)!
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DesignTO Blog
Designing a better future with DesignTO
As we prepare for the upcoming Festival, Executive Director Jeremy Vandermeij and Artistic Director Deborah Wang, take a moment to look back at where DesignTO started and where it’s going.
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DesignTO Festival - January 25–26, 2023
DesignTO Symposium: Trash Talk
Join us for DesignTO’s eighth annual symposium which will bring seven multidisciplinary experts together to design responses to the problem of waste and waste management in the context of the global climate crisis.
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DesignTO Festival - Jan 20–Apr 02 2023
Territories 2.0
Located in Sugar Beach Park – North, a dark cube houses miniature landscapes by artist Olivier Roberge depicting a natural environment that has been transformed by human intervention and climate change.
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DesignTO Festival - January 20–29, 2023
DesignTO Awards
While you're checking out all the amazing 2023 DesignTO Festival events, exhibitions, and installations, be sure to remember your favourites and vote in the 2023 People's Choice Awards.
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DesignTO Festival - January 11–February 4, 2023
Forecast
‘Forecast’ is a group exhibition featuring the work of nine local and international artists and designers exploring themes related to the climate crisis specifically as it relates to the weather and how environmental changes impact communities on a global scale.
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DesignTO Festival - January 16–February 5, 2023
Purpose & Play
Showcasing the work of eight Canadian designers and studios, ‘Purpose & Play’ is an exhibition that explores new prototypes for contemporary life focusing on domestic objects that are fun to use and fun to own.
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DesignTO Festival - January 20–February 11, 2023
DesignTO Youth: Blueprint
‘Blueprint’ is a group exhibition featuring 10 young artists and designers. Inspired by a DesignTO Youth six-week residency program, these youth create new work that considers the future of Toronto as they envision it.
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DesignTO Festival - January 29, 2023
The Lifecycle of Objects
‘The Lifecycle of Objects’ is a two-part event consisting of a relaxed exchange between artists and designers on the ways in which designed objects, like humans, experience the cycles of living and change.
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DesignTO Festival – January 20-29, 2023
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Stop. Look. Think. This walking tour invites you to take a closer look at three installations on display in the Yonge + St. Clair neighbourhood, with firsthand insight from the artists and designers behind the projects.
DesignTO Tours: Stop. Look. Think.
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DesignTO Tours: Stop. Look. Think.
Jan 28
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In collaboration with Carl Hansen & Søn, bulthaup Toronto will be exhibiting a special installation exploring new designs by Danish masters Hans J. Wegner and Vilhelm Lauritzen, and the visionary contemporary designer Rikke Frost.
bulthaup X Carl Hansen & Søn: ‘The Sound of Design’
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bulthaup X Carl Hansen & Søn: ‘The Sound of Design’
Jan 20
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Jan 29 2023
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Octet Truss w/ Snake is a fluffy geometric structure which describes the process used to create it.
Octet Truss w/ Snake
Window Installation
Octet Truss w/ Snake
Jan 20
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Jan 29 2023
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Join DesignTO at the Drake Hotel’s rooftop Sky Yard to wrap-up 10 days of design. Mix and mingle with DesignTO Festival exhibitors, speakers and design-lovers to make friends with Toronto’s creative community.
DesignTO Mix: Festival Edition
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DesignTO Mix: Festival Edition
Jan 29
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Stoneface Co. presents a sculptural furniture piece named 'Ostrea'. This coffee table’s form is modeled after the Ostrea Edulis, a European oyster with a flat, fan shape; it is sustainability produced using natural materials.
Ostrea
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Ostrea
Jan 20
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Jan 29 2023
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'digitalSTRUCTURES: Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future' is an interactive XR exhibition that engages with digital property and data infrastructures, and explores new modes and impacts of data collection affecting architecture, urban infrastructure, and supply chains.
digitalSTRUCTURES: Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future
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digitalSTRUCTURES: Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future
Jan 27
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Mar 18 2023
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A multi-sensory experience created out of a challenging concept – Democracy. ARCTRN Group brings together their creative skills to provoke public thought about democracy's true meaning and its pivotal importance in our lives.
Democracy in Motion
Window Installation
Democracy in Motion
Jan 20
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Jan 29 2023
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Comprised of video performances, moving-image, and documentation archives that are projected simultaneously onto different surfaces, this performative installation explores notions of the liminal in our current digital culture.
Variations on Broken Lines | A multimedia installation at LA-MASHU artspace
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Variations on Broken Lines | A multimedia installation at LA-MASHU artspace
Jan 20
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Feb 10 2023
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Interactive and colourful, the 'Tunnel of Glam' at Yonge + St. Clair is an 80-foot tunnel lined with over 14 million reversible sequins.
Tunnel of Glam – CANCELLED
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Tunnel of Glam – CANCELLED
Jan 20
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Jan 29 2023
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‘The Lifecycle of Objects’ is a two-part event consisting of a relaxed exchange between artists and designers on the ways in which designed objects, like humans, experience the cycles of living and change.
The Lifecycle of Objects
DesignTO ProjectEvent
The Lifecycle of Objects
Jan 29
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'Look at me!' by Elfy Castro celebrates nature's perfect design that took millions of years to create.
Elfy Castro: Nature, “LOOK AT ME!… I AM SUBLIME AND SUPREME” – POSTPONED
Window Installation
Elfy Castro: Nature, “LOOK AT ME!… I AM SUBLIME AND SUPREME” – POSTPONED
Jan 21
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Mar 19 2023
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Located in Sugar Beach Park - North, a dark cube houses miniature landscapes by artist Olivier Roberge depicting a natural environment that has been transformed by human intervention and climate change.
Territories 2.0
DesignTO ProjectExhibition
Territories 2.0
Jan 20
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Apr 02 2023
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STACKABL exhibits five in-house-configured pendants to spark conversations about the circular economy and the future of collectible design. See the lights 24/7 at The Lobby, a community-driven space where creativity, inspiration and expertise come together, and try the configurator yourself.
STACKABL x The Lobby by Heaps Estrin
Window Installation
STACKABL x The Lobby by Heaps Estrin
Jan 14
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Mar 31 2023
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SCHOOL - learn to be entrepreneurial in Design; our individuality is our greatest Common Good. DIGITAL DOLLAR means interiors of the FUTURE will be built differently. 1st class FREE, 'handy vs helpless' - no more design dilemmas. Brown BOXES BOXES
Swedish Socialism 2: GO West
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Swedish Socialism 2: GO West
Jan 29
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'Northern Radiance' is a parametric art installation by Asli Alin in which both mirrored and iridescent colour effect surfaces are combined. The installation invites viewers to move around and explore it from different angles, stimulating their curiosity and active engagement.
Northern Radiance
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Northern Radiance
Jan 20
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Jan 29 2023
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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.

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Online Events at the 2023 DesignTO Festival

Whether you’re out of town, an international fan of DesignTO, or just want to stay cozy, there are lots of exciting and engaging online events happening as part of this year’s Festival. Staying in doesn’t mean you have to miss out!

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