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2025

Festival Schedule

January 24 – February 2, 2025

DesignTO Festival isn’t just about events, it’s about making real change. Celebrating 15 years of impact, DesignTO brings people together to design a better future that’s sustainable, just, and joyful. As Canada’s largest non-profit design festival, the 10-day event features 100+ free events and exhibitions, both online and in-person, across Toronto. Most events and exhibitions are free, but some require an RSVP or purchased tickets. All window installations are viewable from the outdoors.

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Join us for the official 2025 DesignTO Launch Party as we kick off our 15th Festival and celebrate DesignTO's legacy of fostering belonging and sparking vital conversations about design’s role in shaping a better world.
DesignTO Launch Party 2025
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DesignTO Launch Party 2025
Jan 24 2025
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A pile of fresh fish from Mark Krebs. Hand-woven fish-shaped body pillows filled with shredded memory foam, woven in three colourways and made of fibre-dyed wool yarns.
A Fine Kettle of Fish
in-person
window installation
A Fine Kettle of Fish
Jan 21
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Jan 31 2025
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'A Name To It' by Boris Yu confronts buried pasts to illuminate the complex sentiments of (un)narrating the language of manhood. A space of rest commemorates past versions of manhood that have protected while building space for the versions to come.
A Name To It
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A Name To It
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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‘A Tribe Called Sagrada’ is a series of sculptural lamps by Amulette that celebrates heritage architecture through bold forms and refined textures. Each piece, entirely handmade, merges contemporary design with cultural legacy.
A Tribe Called Sagrada
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A Tribe Called Sagrada
Jan 21
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Feb 02 2025
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‘About Time’ is a collaborative exhibition exploring how the passing of time and changing of contexts alters our ideas—six Sheridan Craft and Design Alumni present works of furniture, lighting, sculpture, and interactive design.
About Time
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About Time
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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'Agape' features a collection of ambient lamps designed and produced by Simone Aslan for PERPETUAL ITCH. With inspiration taken from tongue, tooth, and mouth, these lights seek to impart a sense of stillness and awe upon the viewer.
Agape
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Agape
Jan 23
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Feb 02 2025
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Discounted prices and unprecedented convenience come at a great cost. With a nod to Warhol's Brillo boxes, these screen-printed boxes use humour to draw attention to the corporations crushing small businesses. This installation by Christopher Rouleau is an urgent reminder to shop local.
Amazon Sucks
in-person
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Amazon Sucks
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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Inspired by Camus' quote, “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer,” this installation by SUMOfc embodies the quiet resilience of the human spirit.
An Invincible Sun
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An Invincible Sun
Jan 25
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Feb 07 2025
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'Artifacts of Place' by Christian Maidankine is an exploration of the relationship between us and our objects — a look at how we identify and settle within the spaces we occupy in our never-ending process of inhabitation.
Artifacts of Place
in-person
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Artifacts of Place
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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‘At the conjuring of roots, I wished to meet Me…’ is an exhibition of photos that explore ideas of the self through costuming by Toronto-based, Ghanaian-Nigerian photographer and visual artist Delali Cofie on five digital screens at Sankofa Square.
At the conjuring of roots, I wished to meet Me…
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At the conjuring of roots, I wished to meet Me…
Jan 01
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Jan 31 2025
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Visit the Andreu World Toronto Showroom to see a textile installation by industrial designer Laura Carwardine made from repurposed berry baskets and nylon rope. This study in repetition allows the process of prototyping to be shared with the viewer.
Berry Baskets
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Berry Baskets
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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'Beyond the Body' by Pixel Heller transforms costumes into sculptural extensions, blending wearable art and abstraction. These pieces explore the fluidity of masquerade and evoke rituals, memory, and ancestral ties, bridging identity and time between the past and present.
Beyond the Body
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Beyond the Body
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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'BIPOC Portfolio Collaboration' is an opportunity for BIPOC students to engage in conversations with professionals within the fields of Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Technology, Experiential Design (Signage & Wayfinding and Environmental Graphic Design)to discuss portfolios.
BIPOC Portfolio Collaboration 2025
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BIPOC Portfolio Collaboration 2025
Jan 30
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Jan 31 2025
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'BLOOD, WATER & BATHURST STREET' is a participatory, textile-based mapping project by Naomi Daryn Boyd that explores the histories, communities, and journeys that have shaped these lands. Visitors are invited to engage with the tactile map and contribute their own stories of place.
BLOOD, WATER & BATHURST STREET
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BLOOD, WATER & BATHURST STREET
Jan 13
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Mar 01 2025
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'Bubble Quilt' by Studio Rat is an immersive inflatable installation and lighting concept quilted from reclaimed waste plastics. Hand-crafted inflated modules form a soft-glowing grid, illuminating surface patterns inspired by traditional quilt motifs.
Bubble Quilt
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Bubble Quilt
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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A collection of stacked, hollow ceramic forms inspired by the ancient tradition of stacking stones. Made by Toronto-based ceramicist Vicky Pratt Becker of Vicky Makes Things.
Cairns for Home
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Cairns for Home
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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An immersive installation by Nadira Narine that uses light, mirrors, metal and colour to evoke memories and emotions to create ∼*memory landscapes*∼ titled 'Colour Fields'.
Chromatic Echoes
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Chromatic Echoes
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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'City Blocks' is a textile installation by Sarah Aranha that is informed by the built environment around us. Drawing on the traditions of quilting and patchwork, 'City Blocks' features unique quilt blocks that reflect the changing landscapes of our city.
City Blocks
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City Blocks
Jan 24
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Feb 23 2025
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Join a public forum on the topic of housing and youth. Panel of civic leaders, community activists, and design and economic thinkers, followed by an open mic to explore a next generations lens on the future of urban housing.
CommunityStreets: A Youth Lens on the Future of Urban Housing
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CommunityStreets: A Youth Lens on the Future of Urban Housing
Feb 01 2025
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A fun and approachable salon-style community gathering designed to help you meaningfully connect with fellow design enthusiasts, share your work and ideas, and be open to possible future creative collaborations.
Connect & Collaborate: A Design Salon
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Connect & Collaborate: A Design Salon
Jan 25
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Jan 31 2025
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'Connections' by Chloe Begg features modular ceramic sculptures inspired by architectural forms and themes of authenticity. Each piece explores balance, connection, and belonging through improvisational techniques, inviting viewers to engage with and interpret the work’s layered meanings.
Connections
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Connections
Jan 24
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Feb 23 2025
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An installation at Evergreen Brick Works, 'Consumed!' invites viewers to reconsider their relationship with material goods. Jennifer Coghill imagines a world where style is measured not by newness or trendiness but by sustainability and creativity.
Consumed!
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Consumed!
Jan 23
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Feb 27 2025
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The humble tree participates as a vital part of our ecosystem and built environment yet its intrinsic beauty often goes unnoticed. ‘Daylighting Trees’ reveals this beauty through a collection of sculptural objects made from weathered and reclaimed wooden architectural beams.
Daylighting Trees
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Daylighting Trees
Jan 24
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Feb 04 2025
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SvN’s 'Deconstructing TOD: Transit Roots' exhibit peels back the curtain to show how good quality transit can be delivered in our cities to support healthy, thriving communities. This exhibit showcases an approach for delivering positive social change through major transit projects.
Deconstructing TOD: Transit Roots
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Deconstructing TOD: Transit Roots
Jan 24
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Feb 01 2025
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'Delirious Facade' is a design project that uses image processing artificial intelligence as a generator for architectural form and ornament. The resulting facade proposals are inherently contextual, relating to historical precedent in ways not tied down to dominant formal narratives.
Delirious Facade
in-person
window installation
Delirious Facade
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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Tour Eventscape’s offices, R&D Fab Lab, and custom manufacturing facilities for a look behind the scenes. Learn how Eventscape, an award-winning architectural fabrication company works with the latest technologies, machinery and materials to create custom features.
Design + Fabrication Shop Tours
in-person
event: tour
Design + Fabrication Shop Tours
Jan 28
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Jan 29 2025
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The Design Collection @ STACKT launch event featuring TechnoSalon.
Design Collection @ STACKT Launch Party
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event: reception
Design Collection @ STACKT Launch Party
Jan 25 2025
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A conversation featuring a panel of designers, architects, and artists about the stories that are told through function and form. Moderated by Nadeem Malik, Aesop Head of Store Design, Americas.
Design in Dialogue: A Narrative Approach
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event: talk
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Design in Dialogue: A Narrative Approach
Jan 30 2025
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Through expressive works in glass, Lauren Rice and Nadira Narine navigate community connections current and past, evoking nostalgia for what has been, and a celebration of what is. Join DesignTO for a presentation and discussion with the artists as they explore identity, memory, and emotion.
DesignTO Talks: Material Expressions
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DesignTO projectevent: talk
DesignTO Talks: Material Expressions
Jan 26 2025
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‘Net Positive’ brings together eight multidisciplinary experts to explore innovative responses to the climate crisis from a perspective of abundance. Speakers include Aaron Budd, April Barrett, Deepikah RB, Juan Erazo, Judith van den Boom, Netami Stuart, Reza Nik, and Tura Cousins Wilson.
DesignTO Talks: Net Positive
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DesignTO Talks: Net Positive
Jan 31 2025
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This walking tour invites you to take a closer look at three temporary artworks in the Yonge + St. Clair neighbourhood. With firsthand insight from the artists and designers behind the projects, delve deeper into the installations, their stories and how they came to be.
DesignTO Tours: Dualities
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DesignTO Tours: Dualities
Feb 02 2025
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‘Story Story’ is a group exhibition featuring 7 emerging artists and designers from the annual DesignTO Youth program. Through diverse mediums, materials, and forms, the showcased works present reflections on themes of family, identity, femininity, cross-generational traditions, and the ‘self’.
DesignTO Youth: Story Story
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DesignTO projectexhibition
DesignTO Youth: Story Story
Jan 24
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Feb 15 2025
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Discover the historic Arts and Letters Club, located in the iconic St. George’s Hall, through self-guided tours. Founded in 1908, the Club is a vibrant social hub dedicated to the appreciation and celebration of the arts, including architecture, drawing, film, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and theatre.
Discover a Hidden Gem: The Arts and Letters Club
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event: tour
Discover a Hidden Gem: The Arts and Letters Club
Jan 24 2025
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A performative textile installation, where the artist/designer will hand-tie modular units of naturally dyed, fused, laser etched, and laser cut silk fabrics together. The finished yardage will be on display for the duration of Toronto design week.
DO: MAKING AS AN ACT OF ENDURANCE
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DO: MAKING AS AN ACT OF ENDURANCE
Jan 23
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Feb 01 2025
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Experience 'DOT DIALOG: The Human Senses', an interactive multisensory exhibition by DIALOG for DesignTO 2025. Explore how design engages sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell to create sustainable, human-centred spaces. Free and open to all hosted at DIALOG’s Toronto studio.
DOT DIALOG: The Human Senses
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DOT DIALOG: The Human Senses
Jan 24
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Jan 28 2025
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A collection of works on paper alongside wooden furniture pieces. Despite differences in materiality, they share a common theme — a process-based design whereby repetition leads to variation and standardization yields an organic quality—furniture making as drawing.
Drawing and Improvisation in Paper and Wood
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Drawing and Improvisation in Paper and Wood
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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'Duelling Dualities: From Indigenous Filipino Packaging to Industrialized Canadian Realities' explores the intersection of tradition and industry, highlighting how packaging reflects cultural values, sustainability, and the potential of indigenous knowledge in shaping a sustainable future. Curated by Robert Joel Cortez.
DUELLING DUALITIES: From Indigenous Filipino Packaging to Industrialized Canadian Realities
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DUELLING DUALITIES: From Indigenous Filipino Packaging to Industrialized Canadian Realities
Jan 24
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Feb 28 2025
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DUSKSHAPED, a New York-based sculptor who creates design objects from metal, the most sustainable common building material, is thrilled to show a selection of works from the 'Bad Graces' collection, including plant stands, jewelry hangers, bowls, and small tables.
DUSKSHAPED: Bad Graces
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DUSKSHAPED: Bad Graces
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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‘Dwell’ is a design exhibition that offers opportunities to slow down and connect in the hustle and bustle of Union Station – Canada's busiest transportation hub. Five artists and designers explore what taking pause amidst the rush of urban travel looks like.
Dwell
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Dwell
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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'Multiple Endings' is a group exhibition co-curated by the Dying.series collective. This exhibition aims to look into existentialism across the realms of fragility, death, dying, loss, and grief through socially engaged art pieces that embrace diverse cultural and spiritual lenses.
Dying. Multiple Endings
in-person
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Dying. Multiple Endings
Jan 23
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Feb 03 2025
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'Emovere' by Carrie Perreault is a sculptural series of drystone casts from HVAC ducts. Unpolished and raw, they evoke incomplete spaces and home, inspired by "emovere," meaning to move through. Displayed en masse, they render air and space tangible.
Emovere
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Emovere
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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Highlighting the dynamic talent of Montreal’s design community, this exhibition celebrates both individual creativity and the collaborative spirit that fuels it. Together, it showcase a diverse range of furniture pieces, reflecting Montreal's forward-thinking and vibrant design scene.
Ensemble
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Ensemble
Jan 24
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Jan 28 2025
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Learn low-fidelity prototyping to tinker with physical materials (crafting materials, electronics, etc.) and bring creative ideas to life! Diverse participants of all ages, including those with sensory disabilities, are encouraged to attend.
Everyone Is a Designer Workshop
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Everyone Is a Designer Workshop
Jan 28 2025
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'Fables in Yarn' is a collection of six hand-punched tapestries by Alisa McRonald that weave together the vibrancy of Scottish and Irish fairytales and folklore with the artist’s unique narratives.
Fables in Yarn
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Fables in Yarn
Jan 24
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Feb 04 2025
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'Family Stories' by Diana Watters is a textural study of materials blended and bound together through macrame and weaving.
Family Stories
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window installation
Family Stories
Jan 19
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Feb 12 2025
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Rolls of felt six feet wide by eighty yards long in total are turned into an interior environment that crosses installation with functional design with forms that evolve from the inherent qualities of the material—felt rolls, felt folds, felt puckers, felt pleats, felt pads, felt cushions felt bulges, felt creases. Drop in during gallery hours or join us at one of the free events.
FELT unfurled
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FELT unfurled
Jan 18
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Feb 08 2025
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'Filamentous', 2020-2023, grew out of the daily rituals and art practices of the pandemic. Cyanotype portraits hang in individual net canopies connected by rope nests against a backdrop of solar-dyed teabag tapestries that chronicle seasons passed during lockdown.
Filamentous
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Filamentous
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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This series of furniture is displayed in the window of the flodström office and showroom in Roncy. The flodström x Woyote collaboration brings a combination of refined and bold furniture that is as unique as you are.
flodström x Woyote
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flodström x Woyote
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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'Fluid Connectivité' by Gabrielle Lasporte reflects on life, knowledge that our individual stories meshing into wider expanse of flow and connectivity brings expansion, understanding to our collective experiences.
Fluid Connectivité
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Fluid Connectivité
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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Trauma-informed artist Olivia Mae Sinclair explores forgiveness, devotion, and healing through screen-printed textiles and poetry. 'FORGIVENESS/RESENTMENT' uses transitional space to examine memory, pain, and recovery, inviting viewers to reflect on the tension between letting go and holding on.
FORGIVENESS/RESENTMENT
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FORGIVENESS/RESENTMENT
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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This exhibition of artworks by Catherine Chan delves into entanglements with the more-than-human. Recontextualizing materials of deep time with those made within human timescales, these artworks aim to unearth embedded histories and our interwoven relationships with the biotic and abiotic.
Fractures and Futures
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Fractures and Futures
Jan 24
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Feb 15 2025
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'Fragments of a Disappearing Landscape' by POLYMETIS (Michaela MacLeod & Nicholas Croft) captures clay impressions of Ontario's Oak Ridges Moraine, reflecting its fragile state under environmental pressures. This immersive installation invites viewers to consider the urgency of protecting disappearing landscapes.
Fragments of a Disappearing Landscape
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Fragments of a Disappearing Landscape
Jan 24
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Feb 15 2025
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In this workshop, Laura Carwardine will guide you through the process of stitching her 'Fried Egg Magnet 3D Embroidery Kit'. Enjoy a comfortable social afternoon at The Drake Hotel as you’re stitching and learning about the tactile joys of embroidery.
Fried Egg Embroidery Workshop
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event: workshop
Fried Egg Embroidery Workshop
Feb 01 2025
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'From the Ground' is an art exhibit by OCADU students Christina da Graça and Songshu Liu, featuring woodworking and ceramics. Their work celebrates the natural beauty and imperfections of clay and wood, hosted at the Bulthaup Toronto Showroom.
From The Ground
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From The Ground
Jan 20
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Feb 01 2025
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Studio Bimbi is a creative practice and space for exploration. This exhibition showcases a collection of hand-made furniture for home.
Home
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Home
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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NEUF architect(e)s displays an architectural installation showcasing typical residential spaces in Toronto within their storefront window that directly faces St. Lawrence Market. This display showcases design interventions that Torontonians can do to improve their homes for multi-generational use.
Homes That Care
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window installation
Homes That Care
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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'Homing' is an ongoing performance, relational, and research piece by Toronto-based artist Maddy Young. Pigeons are the ultimate urban survivors and, for DesignTO, they will become stoic observers in the lobby of 95 St. Clair Avenue West.
Homing (Pigeon Store)
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Homing (Pigeon Store)
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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Organized by DesignTO in partnership with the Toronto Society of Architects, ‘Ideas Forum: Labour in Architecture’ features five fast-paced presentations (20 slides shown for 20 seconds each) exploring the practice of architecture.
Ideas Forum: Labour in Architecture
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Ideas Forum: Labour in Architecture
Jan 28 2025
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'Iluminación' by Desiree Martinez explores the recession of daylight during winter. It represents the feelings of humans confined in the shortness of daylight. Often finding ourselves in urge to immerse in any kind of illumination.
Iluminación
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Iluminación
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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The Interior Design Show celebrates and promotes the best in global and Canadian design, from emerging designers to legacy brands. IDS is not just a fair — it’s a total design experience.
Interior Design Show Toronto 2025
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Interior Design Show Toronto 2025
Jan 23
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Jan 26 2025
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The Goodman Studio unveils a lantern-inspired installation at the Keilhauer showroom. Hand-blown glass pieces with sandblasted woven and lattice textures cast warm, intricate shadows—melding traditional craftsmanship with modern artistry in a captivating interplay of light and form.
Lantern
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Lantern
Jan 24
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Feb 21 2025
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Experience the elegance of Sogetsu Ikebana, a modern interpretation of traditional Japanese flower arranging, at the University Club of Toronto. Enjoy a stunning exhibition and live demonstration by Yvonne Leung碧君.
Living Art: Sogetsu Ikebana
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Living Art: Sogetsu Ikebana
Feb 01 2025
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'Looms of Heritage' is the product of a workshop series led by Ebru Winegard exploring traditional Turkish weaving. The installation features individual woven works united in one decorative tapestry. This piece is the collaborative effort of Turkish newcomers to Toronto.
Looms of Heritage
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Looms of Heritage
Jan 24
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Feb 11 2025
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'Mapping Out Calm' is a large-scale paper tapestry by Steph Cloutier that explores the impermanence of life through water. A hand-stitched map made of lake water and pulp reveals Lake Ontario’s evolution and resilience, and our shared experience with transition and renewal.
Mapping Out Calm
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Mapping Out Calm
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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Harbourfront Centre presents a series of exhibitions highlighting craft and design methodologies that explore the intersections between making and material to investigate ideas of sustainability and resilience, risk-taking and legacy.
Material Practice at Harbourfront Centre
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Material Practice at Harbourfront Centre
Jan 25
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Mar 30 2025
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Join us for StudioHour’s 'Meet Up & Make Session Vol.002', a curated evening that brings creatives from across industries together to share and experience how different design disciplines problem solve and create, all set within a dinner party atmosphere!
Meet Up & Make Session: Storytelling & Rapid Ideation
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Meet Up & Make Session: Storytelling & Rapid Ideation
Jan 29 2025
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'MINISEUM' by Haiqa Nisar and Jacqueline Hampshire celebrates the essential tool of any spatial designer: the scale model. The installation puts print material on display and invites passersby to pause and look closely. The idea was born from a love of exploring design through analog means.
MINISEUM
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MINISEUM
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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More diverse solutions, more sustainability, more density, better design, better use of resources, better quality—let's move away from repeating our past and envision a future that uses good housing design that lasts for generations.
More | Better | House
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More | Better | House
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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'Narcissus Falls' explores our obsession with digital reflections by inverting the Narcissus myth. An overhead mirrored waterfall reflects viewers, while fragrant narcissus flowers below offer a sensory contrast. The installation juxtaposes untouchable reflections with tangible, yet artificial, nature.
Narcissus Falls
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Narcissus Falls
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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This panel explores how sustainable and creative urban design can reshape cities. By integrating multiple perspectives and disciplines, panelists showcase dynamic blueprints for carbon-neutral, inclusive spaces, fostering resilient urban futures.
Neighbours of the Lake: A Creative Discussion on the Port Lands
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Neighbours of the Lake: A Creative Discussion on the Port Lands
Feb 01 2025
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DesignTO invites designers and thinkers to an online Drift moderated by Judith van den Boom to explore design responses to the climate crisis, focusing on how we can create whole systems that foster more restorative, regenerative, and relational practices and partnerships.
Net Positive Drift
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DesignTO projectevent: talk
Net Positive Drift
Feb 01 2025
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Experience Toronto’s future design through material reuse. This exhibit by architects, designers and makers reimagines the city’s design language, blending sustainability and local heritage by transforming salvaged materials into a vibrant, place-rooted vision for Toronto’s evolving built environment.
New Narratives in Design: Salvage, Reuse, and Toronto’s Evolving Aesthetic
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New Narratives in Design: Salvage, Reuse, and Toronto’s Evolving Aesthetic
Jan 25
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Feb 02 2025
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Inspired by aerial photos in the Toronto Archives, 'On This Spot' by Paul Dotey looks into the deep time of a Toronto neighbourhood, the footprints we leave on the land, and how geological forces shape the territory.
On This Spot
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On This Spot
Jan 24
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Feb 01 2025
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'partition: a line and its memory' is a virtual exhibition by Dead Projects exploring the profound impact of borders on our lives. Featuring Mahmoud Alhaj and Kasra Goodarznezhad, the project is viewable from the Design Fabrication Zone window.
partition: a line and its memory
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partition: a line and its memory
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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Pattern is everywhere. In art and design, it can be a motif, a way to organize and a compositional device. Five installations and exhibitions at Gladstone House respond to the idea of pattern.
Pattern: Method and Motif
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Pattern: Method and Motif
Jan 17
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Apr 29 2025
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Tania Love’s delicate hand cut paper works give visual expression to the layered relationship between micro and macro, body and habitat.  
patterns of belonging
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patterns of belonging
Nov 14 2024
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Feb 02 2025
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An immersive exhibition for self-celebration featuring interactive installations, a hypnosis lounge, and creative workshops. Participants are invited to explore intentional living, personal growth, and community, discovering a renewed sense of joy while blending work and humanness with unapologetic celebration.
Permission to Celebrate
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Permission to Celebrate
Jan 24
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Jan 31 2025
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Through the installation 'Plasticity,' Shira Yavor challenges the normalized use of plastic in everyday fashion. Corset-like bodices were moulded from acrylic plastic sheets and transformed into fluid, wearable art. These bodices float in space, evoking a futuristic, dream-like ambiance.
Plasticity
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Plasticity
Jan 19
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Feb 08 2025
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This quilt by Cristina De Miranda depicts the early stages of the artist's pregnancy using characteristics common in modern quilting. The radiating woven circles serve to illustrate that as her son grew, she was also growing into her new role as a mother.
Portrait of Mother and Son
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window installation
Portrait of Mother and Son
Jan 28
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Feb 02 2025
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This installation by Lauren Rice is a heartfelt expression of queer community, celebrating the vibrant spectrum of queer joy and the need for connection. Featuring a window installation of blown glass sculptures, attached and connected by handcrafted, recycled leather harnesses.
Queer Connections
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Queer Connections
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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Featured at Keilhauer’s showroom, 'Radia Linea' is a new light concept by Brad Turner for The Goodman Studio. Using clear glass rods suspended by custom LED holders, this design highlights the beauty of light in its purest form.
Radia Linea
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window installation
Radia Linea
Jan 24
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Feb 21 2025
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Dennis Lin’s recent work seeks to preserve fragments of a past that feel increasingly fragile. Lin has collected and tended to culturally and personally nostalgic materials to rebuild ties to his heritage and its culture.
Recent Works – Dennis Lin Studio
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Recent Works – Dennis Lin Studio
Jan 25
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Jan 31 2025
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REVIVE is a group exhibition featuring the work of seven local and international artists and designers, exploring endangered creative practices and materials as vital expressions of storytelling and identity.
REVIVE
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REVIVE
Jan 25
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Mar 30 2025
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'Run From the Dumpster Fire' by Kira K. is a burst of colour designed on blank skateboard decks. The theme is healing from an old life. The pop of colour and the boards will redefine the venue – a laundromat.
Run From the Dumpster Fire
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Run From the Dumpster Fire
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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A new series of ceramic sculptures by Filipa Pimentel explores fluidity, movement, and the delicate balance between form and function. The flowing ribbons of porcelain offer a fresh, contemporary interpretation of organic form.
Sculptural Ribbons in Clay
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Sculptural Ribbons in Clay
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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In this hands-on 4 hour workshop, and using low fidelity materials, participants will prototype a card and/or board game addressing a chosen issue and leave with a deeper understanding of how serious games can raise awareness and educate.
Serious Game Design Workshop
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event: workshop
Serious Game Design Workshop
Jan 26 2025
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Get your back up at the Drake Hotel with Wind Up Radio's video and sound installation/cautionary message from the Server Farms of Miscellanea. We've got your multitudes.
Server Farms of Miscellanea
in-person
exhibition
Server Farms of Miscellanea
Jan 16
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Feb 23 2025
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Printing a family photograph onto a corroded copper plate, this work by Ernesto Cabral de Luna explores the delicate interplay between memory, material degradation, and artistic resurrection. This large-scale installation showcases the visual distortion of memories through the physical degradation of materiality.
Snapshot: Foto de Familia
in-person
window installation
Snapshot: Foto de Familia
Dec 21 2024
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Mar 20 2025
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These exhibitions at two locations showcases work from a cooperative of textile artists who share studio space in Toronto. These artists are unified by this creative space and a shared exploration of textiles that bridges art, craft, beauty and utility.
Some Assembly Required 1.0: Current Practices from Members of the Contemporary Textile Studio Cooperative
in-person
exhibition
Some Assembly Required 1.0: Current Practices from Members of the Contemporary Textile Studio Cooperative
Jan 24
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Feb 12 2025
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These exhibitions at two locations showcases work from a cooperative of textile artists who share studio space in Toronto. These artists are unified by this creative space and a shared exploration of textiles that bridges art, craft, beauty and utility.
Some Assembly Required 2.0: Current Practices from Members of the Contemporary Textile Studio Cooperative
in-person
exhibition
Some Assembly Required 2.0: Current Practices from Members of the Contemporary Textile Studio Cooperative
Jan 24
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Feb 12 2025
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'Sonic Interiors' is an four speaker sound installation by Mathew Garland that aims to showcase how public spaces can be designed to support people who identify as highly sensitive, specifically through the aural sense.
Sonic Interiors
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Sonic Interiors
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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This installation by Rob Shostak explores the unseen burdens, pressures and strains we and the people around us shoulder every day. An assembly of concrete shopping bags floats while the weight of their contents seems to stretch the vessels to their limit.
Stone and Stone: Undo Burden
in-person
window installation
Stone and Stone: Undo Burden
Jan 24
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Feb 13 2025
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A sculptor, together with a food historian and cultural worker, explores grief, collective memory, and migration through 'Sufra (Displaced Objects)'—an immersive exhibit blending personal family photos, tableware sculptures, and historical SWANA culinary ephemera, revealing the deep connection between shared moments.
Sufra (Displaced Objects)
in-person
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Sufra (Displaced Objects)
Jan 24
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Jan 26 2025
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‘Superposition’ is a series of textile sculptures by Shao-Chi Lin that explore the nature of waves. Meticulously crafted with woven textiles, natural dyes, and modern technologies, these sculptures bridge the worlds of observed scientific facts and subjective understandings.
Superposition
in-person
window installation
Superposition
Jan 22
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Feb 02 2025
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‘Surface Impressions’ is an exhibition highlighting the dynamic interactions between a material’s physical properties and the results of creative techniques applied to it. This exhibition includes 9 designers exploring how materials can respond to different processes, leading to unexpected outcomes and applications.
Surface Impressions
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Surface Impressions
Jan 21
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'Symphotic Morphosis' is an interactive installation that adapts light, sound, and movement to engage young children in spatial learning and relaxation, using sensory-rich design and AI-driven feedback to enhance spatial awareness and cognitive development in real time.
Symphotic Morphosis
in-person
window installation
Symphotic Morphosis
Jan 31
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Feb 02 2025
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'Tangled Paths' by Nargiza Usmanova symbolizes Toronto's urban life, where millions of journeys intertwine, reflecting the city's dynamic interactions and connections. Made from 90% recycled materials, it highlights sustainability and the endless possibilities of urban evolution at Yonge + St. Clair.
Tangled Paths
in-person
exhibition
Tangled Paths
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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In this series of installations, Sonia Lala explores challenging personal narratives uncovered while clearing out her childhood home. She encourages us to consider how spaces and artifacts can embody stuck or abandoned parts of ourselves, and to intentionally reclaim them.
The Address of our Dis/Beliefs
in-person
exhibition
The Address of our Dis/Beliefs
Jan 25
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Jan 29 2025
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'The Archivist' is a performative character by Pixel Heller, capturing the essence of Caribbean carnival. By documenting its traditions, characters, and histories, it bridges past and present, preserving carnival as a living archive of cultural pride, resilience, and community.
The Archivist
in-person
exhibition
The Archivist
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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Join David Ingram of Sweat and Tonic and Craig Stanghetta of Ste Marie for a dynamic discussion on how hospitality-inspired design transforms fitness and wellness spaces into immersive destinations, fostering connection, enhancing guest experience, and redefining urban wellness.
The Hospitality Effect: Transforming Fitness & Wellness Spaces into Destinations
in-person
event: talk
The Hospitality Effect: Transforming Fitness & Wellness Spaces into Destinations
Jan 29 2025
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Be transported to an unfamiliar place. At the Mason Studio Cultural Hub, a site-specific installation takes you out of the every day, guiding you on a journey that resonates deeply with the mind and body.
The Invisible Tide
in-person
exhibition
The Invisible Tide
Jan 25
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Jan 29 2025
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'The Leg Table Project' by Hamish Greenland examines the allure and meaning of crossed legs. Do these intersecting silhouettes captivate us universally, or does context—bare feet or running shoes—transform their effect? A striking exploration of form and meaning.
The Leg Table Project
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window installation
The Leg Table Project
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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A screening of a 45-minute director’s cut of the Claude Cormier Oral History Project, followed by a panel discussion reflecting on Claude’s legacy in Toronto. This event is done in partnership by the TSA, TCLF, and UofT Daniels Faculty.
The Legacy of Claude Cormier: Screening & Panel Discussion
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event: film screening
The Legacy of Claude Cormier: Screening & Panel Discussion
Jan 30 2025
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'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' is a series of large mysterious light-forms by designer Molly Valentine Dierks. Inspired by Ukiyo-e, manga, and Disney drawings, the glowing pastel LED sculptures revel in the alluring, the inexplicable, and the sensual.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
in-person
window installation
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Jan 20
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Feb 03 2025
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'The Shape I'm In' showcases contemporary artists exploring the relationship between colour, geometric forms and abstraction through painting, sculpture and mixed media. This exhibition highlights how these elements transcend cultural boundaries, communicating ideas, emotions and identity through universal visual language.
The Shape I’m In
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exhibition
The Shape I’m In
Jan 22
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Feb 01 2025
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'Wave' is a large LED installation by MattCreative designed to allow visitors to play with light as it moves through 3D space with nothing but their presence or to stand back and watch as it creates vibrant visualizations in real-time.
The Spatial Series – Wave
in-person
window installation
The Spatial Series – Wave
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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Experience a transformative fusion of art and fashion at this textile art exhibition by Lilian Hallak. Explore a vibrant collection of fabric designs merging traditional artistry with functional beauty. Celebrate the limitless creativity that turns textiles into unique expressions of individuality and culture. Join us in this colourful journey of self-expression through fabric art.
Threads of Imagination
online
exhibition
Threads of Imagination
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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Join the IDSA-Toronto chapter for a hybrid event featuring light refreshments and networking, followed by presentations by three design experts on strategy, crowdfunding and product development, followed by a roundtable discussion of questions submitted by the audience.
Three Design Stories
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event: talk
Three Design Stories
Jan 30 2025
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Hop over to The Drake Hotel for Klara VY’s latest exhibition, showcasing over 16 feet of woven textile that explores structure and fluidity. This striking black-and-white piece features manipulated patterns that evoke movement, inviting viewers to explore its intricate design.
Tides of Structure
in-person
exhibition
Tides of Structure
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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Yabu Pushelberg's curated exhibition, 'To Hold', asks Canadian artists and designers to explore the role of presentation in showcasing a personally meaningful object, underscoring a connection between design and personal narrative.
To Hold: A Group Exhibition Curated by Yabu Pushelberg
in-person
exhibition
To Hold: A Group Exhibition Curated by Yabu Pushelberg
Jan 23
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Jan 30 2025
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This quilt reimagines urban landscapes through collages of construction photos, linking details by color, texture, and line. Using upcycled bedding, it challenges visibility and power, inviting viewers to rethink who shapes shared spaces and what is deemed worth seeing.
Under Construction: Cozy Edition
in-person
window installation
Under Construction: Cozy Edition
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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'Understory' by Jenn Kitagawa examines the interconnectedness between nature and technology. As life increasingly becomes more instantaneous, the artwork is intended to disrupt the infinite screen scroll and encourage viewers to be present in their body and surroundings.
Understory
in-person
window installation
Understory
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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This collection of ceramic sculptures by Colleen Dwyer Meloche explores the idea of unravelling. These works exhibited at the Euro Tile & Stone showroom, investigate the interplay of nature and culture as they unfold notions of balance and belonging.
UNRAVEL
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exhibition
UNRAVEL
Jan 24
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Feb 01 2025
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‘Unveiled: The Graduation’ is a curated exhibition showcasing the self expression of young Muslim women in Toronto through the creative arts. It was initially featured as an exhibition to commemorate the completion of the four part workshop series called 'Unveiled: Creative Practice & Self Expression'.
Unveiled: The Graduation
in-person
exhibition
Unveiled: The Graduation
Feb 01
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Feb 02 2025
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'Vivero' is a window installation featuring a hanging decor system by Paso Design that brings wonder and joy to the display of everyday objects. Designed with disassembly in mind and with sustainably sourced materials.
Vivero
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window installation
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Vivero
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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‘Void’ is a solo exhibition of jewellery by Toronto-based Chinese artist Chu Winnie Cheung that explores constraint, censorship and discrimination in the context of contemporary Chinese society. Through her jewellery, Winnie juxtaposes rigid socio-cultural norms with the raw, unbridled energy of nature – symbolized by free-floating clouds.
Void: Jewellery by Chu Winnie Cheung
in-person
exhibition
Void: Jewellery by Chu Winnie Cheung
Jan 11
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Mar 30 2025
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'Water - Unframed' by Michèle Guevara invites viewers to contemplate and question their relationship with water: as a natural resource, as a human right, its role in the climate crisis and as integral to our livelihood.
Water – Unframed
in-person
window installation
Water – Unframed
Jan 19
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Feb 02 2025
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Hand-woven yardage made from raw materials produced exclusively within Canada, including local wool and locally foraged dye plants. Exhibited as a craft object, this work by Charlotte Little highlights the importance of considering our clothes at all stages of production.
Weaving the Fibreshed
in-person
window installation
Weaving the Fibreshed
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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‘When things fall apart’ invites you to explore the delicate interplay of fragility and resilience. Using naturally dyed materials, Mary Calarco’s textiles are paired with ceramics by Marc LaFoy and florals by Kim Stevens, challenging perceptions of beauty and impermanence.
When things fall apart
in-person
window installation
When things fall apart
Jan 24
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Feb 23 2025
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Through woven and paper works crafted from discarded textiles, ‘Winter Waiting’ by Ruth Wickremesooriya is an exhibition with accompanying events exploring what winter trees can teach us about how to avoid despair when there are no signs of life around us.
Winter Waiting
in-person
exhibition
Winter Waiting
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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What if we could view a future which has already happened? 'Working Backwards' by Mia Cinelli features speculative refuse ‘discovered’ from the future. What might our future selves require, use, and discard? What can they reveal about who we are—or want to be?
Working Backwards
in-person
exhibition
Working Backwards
Jan 24
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Feb 21 2025
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Experience 'Yes, And,' an interactive art installation by Gensler that evolves with each visitor's touch. Using provided objects, you contribute to its ongoing transformation, fostering community, collaboration, and creativity. Visit the lobby and leave your mark on this living artwork.
Yes, And
in-person
exhibition
Yes, And
Jan 24
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Feb 02 2025
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