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Saturday, March 28 | 2 PM
Temporary Conversations
Join us on the second-last day of the ‘Traces’ exhibition for an engaging discourse on the future of migration, and how it impacts us today.
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DesignTO Festival: January 23-February 1, 2026
What to do NEXT!
The 2026 DesignTO Festival may have come to an end on February 1, but there’s still plenty to see and do across the city.
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DesignTO Festival: January 23-February 1, 2026
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January 23-March 29, 2026
'Traces'
Featuring the work of ten local and international artists, designers, and collectives, exploring the weight of migration, forced relocation, and preserving culture and identity: what we carry, what we leave, and how we belong again.
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Meet the 2026 DesignTO Awards Jury and Sponsor Thermador
The DesignTO Awards celebrates the talent, expression, and diversity of designers from Toronto and abroad.
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DesignTO is a charitable arts organization that believes design can create a sustainable, just, and joyful world. DesignTO organizes the annual DesignTO Festival. It is Canada’s largest celebration of design, forming Toronto’s design week every January.

About DesignTO
In 2025, DesignTO became a registered charity.
DesignTO is Canada's leading annual 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.
In 2019 the Toronto Design Offsite Festival became DesignTO
Since 2011, DesignTO has showcased over 7,000 artists and designers.
DesignTO promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion, with diverse representation across its team and board.
DesignTO's annual festival attracted over 200K visitors in 2025 and over 1 million since 2011, cementing its place in Toronto's cultural design scene.

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DesignTO Talks: Virtual Exhibition Design

‘DesignTO Talks: Virtual Exhibition Design’ is a panel discussion that takes a deep dive into the processes and practices of designing expansive and dynamic virtual exhibitions.

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Ideas Forum: Advocating for a Better City

Organized by DesignTO in partnership with the Toronto Society of Architects, ‘Ideas Forum: Advocating for a Better City’ features five fast-paced presentations (20 slides shown for 20 seconds each) exploring different approaches and case studies of advocacy in Toronto’s built environment.