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2021

Festival Schedule

Distanced and Digital

DesignTO is about creativity, community and experimentation.

There are several events and exhibitions to experience online. Most events are free, but some require a RSVP or purchased tickets. All window installations are viewable from the outdoors at venues across the city. Click on each event to learn more.

COVID protocols are in effect. DesignTO is not recommending unnecessary travel or congregating in groups. Please keep physically distanced from others at all times.

All other events are being adapted to current lockdown conditions.

January 22–31, 2021

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'A Colourful Past' will transform the upper windows of The Hermant Building at 19 Dundas Square through vibrant light, intricate patterns, and bold colour, highlighting how the cultural history and story of the site can be told through art and architecture.
A Colourful Past
in-person
window installation
A Colourful Past
Jan 22
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Jan 31 2021
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Society as we know it has greatly shifted architecture’s preoccupations beyond questions of place and shelter. This panel explores how an engaged, collaborative and transdisciplinary approach to design inspires reform and transformation in design.
A Crisis in Relevance
online
event: talk
A Crisis in Relevance
Jan 25 2021
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DesignTO’s sixth annual symposium brings nine multidisciplinary experts together for an inspiring discussion about Inclusive Design, covering inclusive education, the business case for inclusion, accessible technologies, co-creation, decolonization and other thought-provoking topics.
DesignTO Symposium: Towards Inclusive Design
online
DesignTO projectevent
DesignTO Symposium: Towards Inclusive Design
Jan 27
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Jan 28 2021
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Detroit is the first and only UNESCO City of Design in the US. In honor of this designation, Design Core produces the Detroit Month of Design annually in September. This session examines the festival as an example of co-creation.
Detroit: UNESCO City of Design
online
event
Detroit: UNESCO City of Design
Jan 26 2021
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'Dinner with the Diaspora' is a reimagined dinner conversation between creative diasporas. The installation engages the audience through different sensories while spotlighting individual narratives of BIPOC artists, prompting visitors to explore how their intersectionality co-exist within this communal space.
Dinner with the Diaspora
online
exhibition
Dinner with the Diaspora
Jan 22
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Jan 31 2021
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A virtual fireside chat with representatives of some of Toronto’s leading city-building organizations discussing the opportunities, challenges and hopes for a possible National Architecture Policy for Canada.
Does Canada Need A National Architecture Policy?
online
event
Does Canada Need A National Architecture Policy?
Jan 26 2021
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'Emerging Ecologies' presents a selection of eight built urban projects from Italy and Canada that show how public agencies and designers are working together to carve out new ecologies in our dense urban environments.
Emerging Ecologies
online
exhibition
Emerging Ecologies
Jan 21
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Mar 01 2021
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A series of design-objects from a collection of moments from the past five-years. It investigates pairings of ‘everyday objects’ technically, formally, and theoretically, via experimentation of physical and digital fabrication methods, techniques, and tooling, with software exploration virtually in Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality.
Everyday an Object
online
exhibition
Everyday an Object
Jan 22
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Jan 31 2021
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This talk engages three panelists in a discussion on the ability for architecture and design to heal, not only by meeting the needs of individuals, but also through acknowledging the transcendent importance of a community's collective consciousness.
Healing Spaces
online
DesignTO projectevent
Healing Spaces
Jan 27 2021
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‘Ideas Forum: Community Care’ features five fast-paced and fun presentations (20 slides shown for 20 seconds each) exploring the themes and questions from DesignTO’s thematic exhibition on care in collaboration, creative practice and community.
Ideas Forum: Community Care
online
DesignTO projectevent
Ideas Forum: Community Care
Jan 22
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Jan 28 2021
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The urban experience has become analogous with concepts of weaving and textile production, with the term ‘urban fabric’ becoming commonplace. Converting this visually rich urban vernacular into a spatial experience, 'Loom' by elsewhere collective responds to concepts of interweaving in both a metaphorical and material way.
Loom
in-person
window installation
Loom
Jan 22
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Feb 14 2021
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'Volatile Ecology' is a design expedition examining the environmental degradation in the suburban post-industrial waterfront of Buffalo, New York, through the lens of scenario planning and prototype making.
Volatile Ecologies: Architectural Apparatuses for Earthly Survival
online
exhibition
Volatile Ecologies: Architectural Apparatuses for Earthly Survival
Jan 22
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Jan 31 2021
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