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DesignTO Festival - January 19-28, 2024

Start Planning Your Festival Week Today!

View the 2024 Festival Schedule to see what's in store for #DesignTO24

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January 19, 2024

Kickoff the 2024 Festival at the DesignTO Launch Party!

Join us at Harbourfront Centre for the 2024 Launch Party. Buy your Launch Party tickets before January 7 to get $10 off your ticket!

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January 24-25, 2024

DesignTO Talks: Dematerialized

DesignTO’s ninth annual symposium brings together eight multidisciplinary experts to explore the complexities of dematerialization in an increasingly digital world.

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DesignTO Festival - January 19-28, 2024

Now Open: 2024 Call for Volunteers

Experience Toronto’s vibrant design & art culture, and help support our mission to advance design culture in Canada.

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Become a DesignTO Member Today!

DesignTO Members are key in helping us fulfill our mission to increase the public’s knowledge and appreciation of design and its role in creating a sustainable, just and joyful world.

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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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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.

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DesignTO Tours: Space & Sanctuary

Jan 28

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'Could You Take a Picture?' by Cinzia Campolese invites visitors to use their cameras to view visual compositions that are hidden from the naked eye.

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Could you take a picture?

Jan 18

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Jan 28 2024

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'Santuario', Spanish for "sanctuary," is a 6.5-foot nest with a reflective dome, merging themes of nesting and self-reflection. Rooted in the concept of home, it mirrors the viewer in an egg-like shape, crafted by hand with organic and recycled materials by Oliviana Cinco.

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Santuario

Jan 19

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Jan 26 2024

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'Adrift' by Marney McDiarmid speaks to the need to align our actions with our dependence on one another and the Earth. Ceramic flowers are suspended against a backdrop of paper-cut seeds, disconnected and missing their roots, yet still searching for firmer ground.

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Adrift

Jan 19

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The 'Beijing Opera Art International Poster Biennale' is making a stop in Toronto— exhibiting a curated selection of the nearly 200 posters chosen by the International Jury.

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Beijing Opera Art International Poster Biennale

Jan 19

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Jan 28 2024

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Mimosa Haque, a Bangladeshi-Canadian artist, explores otherworldly gardenscapes under the moniker Strange Phool. On January 23, Ace Hotel Toronto will serve a three-course dinner while she sets an intricate tablescape inspired by nature’s imperfections and the architectural elements of the hotel.

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Around Strange Phool’s Tablescape

Jan 23

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'A room is a home, is a playground' is a site-specific event championing fun by design, led by Studio Rat and produced by Ace Hotel Toronto. From January 26 through 28, Interspace becomes a playground, quite literally, of wonder.

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A room is a home, is a playground

Jan 26

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'Whispering' is a kinetic sculpture by Lana Yuan featuring a motor-driven red ball in a rotating steel mechanism. Powered by electricity, it blends childhood nostalgia with minimalist aesthetics, exploring balance, motion, and the essence of time.

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Whispering

Jan 19

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Jan 29 2024

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‘DesignTO Youth: touchbase’ is a group exhibition featuring 10 young artists and designers. Inspired by a six-week workshop series, aimed at demystifying the creative process and dissecting artistic practice, these youth have created new work that reflects themes of identity, resilience, and cultural heritage.

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DesignTO Youth: touchbase

Jan 19

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Feb 17 2024

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‘DesignTO Tours: hollis+morris’ is an opportunity to take a deep dive into the new 14,000 square foot Toronto production studio of hollis+morris, where furniture and lighting are designed, prototyped, manufactured and showcased on-site.

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DesignTO Tours: hollis+morris

Jan 19

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Jan 26 2024

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Kick off the 14th DesignTO Festival at our official Launch Party! Mix and mingle at the event that brings Toronto’s creative community together. As a fundraiser for the non-profit Festival, all proceeds will go to help achieve our purpose to bring people together to design a better future.

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DesignTO Launch Party 2024

Jan 19

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To kick off the second season of SHEEEP Radio’s EX•PER•I•MENT•ER•S, join DesignTO for an open discussion with two mid-career and two emerging designers as they reflect on the realities of their design practices within and outside of architecture.

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SHEEEP Radio: DesignTO Festival Edition

Jan 27

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An installation by Toronto artist Jeremy Do Hyun Joo of JDH Projects at Aesop Queen Street West.

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JDH Projects

Jan 19

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Jan 28 2024

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'Mirage' creates tension through contrasting textures and surrealist patterns. In this series of small tables by Stoneface Co., sandblasted powder-coated steel interacts with soft textiles including woven leather and tufted velvet to create a tactile dialogue.

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Mirage: Sculptural Furniture & Art Objects

Jan 19

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Jan 28 2024

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A discussion with Toronto-based design studio Odami on their design sensibilities, focus of their practice and inspiration behind Aesop Yorkville.

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Odami on Aesop Yorkville

Jan 25

DesignTO is Canada's leading design festival shaping a sustainable, just, and joyful world.

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.

Since 2011, DesignTO has welcomed nearly one million visitors, showcasing over 6,000 artists and designers.

DesignTO promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion, with diverse representation across its team and board.

DesignTO's annual festival attracted 161 K+ visitors in 2023 and over 1 million since 2011, cementing its place in Toronto's cultural design scene.

DesignTO is best known for the non-profit DesignTO Festival, Canada’s leading and largest annual design festival that celebrates design’s role in creating a sustainable, just and joyful world with 100+ exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week every January.

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