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'(AI) - Aesthete’s Items' is founded on the philosophy that beauty must be expressed and shared commonly. It should not be reserved for a limited circle of initiates, but rather be a part of our daily lives in the form of everyday objects.
(AI) – Aesthete’s Items
Jan
17
Join The Globe and Mail and Canadian home furnishings retailer EQ3 to celebrate Designing Canada, a new annual recognition of the best in Canadian design. Enjoy a panel discussion on Canada’s design scene and meet some of the industry’s best talent and opinion leaders.
Designing Canada – An evening to celebrate the best in Canadian design
Jan
21
This annual exhibition of furniture created by the students of OCAD University is now in its ninth year. The show presents original work that explores the role of furniture as a medium for personal expression, as a reflection of social and cultural norms, and as an influence upon human behaviour.
Tables Chairs and Other Unrelated Objects 9
Jan
17
The MTHARU design studio’s Speculative Past exhibit displays a retrospect and prospect speculation on leveraging its past to tell the future. This includes a timeline of the designs that started the studio to offering alternative imaginaries based on current research agenda.
MTHARU / Speculative Past
Jan
17
Phat Le & Benjamin de Boer reflect on urban hospitality by performing interventions on hostile architecture. Concrete levels uneven surfaces and covers spikes, reducing discomfort. These actions bring attention to the groups occupying spaces, as well as programs set against occupation.
Meditation in Concrete II
Jan
14
Cassandra Ferguson’s artistic practice borrows from design to understand the evolution of commodity production and consumption, and elevates the chair to a metaphoric representation of human culture. Her work explores themes of the fetishized object/commodity, the human body, and machines/technology.
Iterations: Production Culture
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‘Holographic Screen by DPo Architecture’ explores the role of devices such as curtains or screens that can filter light and views through glazing, move, rearrange space and act as a counterpart to contemporary materials such as concrete, steel and glass.
Holographic Screen by DPo Architecture
Jan
17
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