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Learn how Eventscape, an award-winning custom architectural fabrication company works with the latest technologies, equipment and materials — wood, metal, glass, solid surface, textiles and more — to create custom features; collaborating on your design vision from start-to-finish.

Design + Fabrication Shop Tours at Eventscape – Virtual Presentations

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Design + Fabrication Shop Tours at Eventscape – Virtual Presentations

Jan 27

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

Exhibition

Everyday an Object

Jan 22

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A journey through space and time, 'jikọta' explores the sacred and practical importance of Indigenous African craftsmanship. Featuring an exclusive collection of artifact seats, this exhibition will unearth a fascinating design dialogue between regions, eras, form and function.

Exhibition

Jan 22

'Refold' is the study on crease patterns from the iconic origami crane in finding representable, yet new complex forms. In doing so, we find the architectural potential of origami with high regards to its history and culture.

Exhibition

Jan 22

This project by Lauren Pearson and Leah Lavergne acts as a material exploration traveling alongside yearning to bring comfort and a sense of wellbeing to the spaces we stay in.

Window Installation

Jan 22

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To correct the disproportionate representation of BIPOC representation within the architecture and design professions, students that identify from these groups are invited to a collaborative portfolio review session with leaders throughout the design community.

BIPOC Portfolio Collaboration

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BIPOC Portfolio Collaboration

Jan 29

In this project, the exhibition design convention of conflating elevation and plan is further abstracted. The viewer is given a perspective that the visitor does not have access to — an omniscient ability to see all works in their spatial configuration.

Conflated Views

Exhibition

Conflated Views

Jan 22

Brandon Latcham and Shira Yavor display a yearning for a more harmoniously shared human / non-human environment through the living room, a space that is a constantly updating mirror to the way we control our environment.

Le Plus Habité – POSTPONED

Window Installation

Le Plus Habité – POSTPONED

Jan 22

Sylvia Lee will use ‘Chroma’ glass to explore the concept of memories assembled through multiple views of a telescope. The final installation will involve ten handmade, custom circles of Chroma glass and three side tables, displayed at AVENUE ROAD Toronto.

TELESCOPE: Capturing moments in time – TEMPORARILY CLOSED

Exhibition

TELESCOPE: Capturing moments in time – TEMPORARILY CLOSED

Jan 22

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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

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Detroit: UNESCO City of Design

Jan 26

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Haptek Lab is a design-research group that utilizes industrial robotic arms to explore industrial manufacturing of architectural ceramics beyond the surface.

Beyond the Surface: The Behaviour of Digital Ceramics

Exhibition

Beyond the Surface: The Behaviour of Digital Ceramics

Jan 22

Handmade ceramics to aid in the joy of living. Born out of fun and friendship, these pieces connect us to self, space, and each other.

Better Together

Window Installation

Better Together

Jan 24

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