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'Can’t Say Nothing' is a mixed media installation using collage, graphic design, print and pattern design, to explore how language and systems of representation mediate our ability to communicate and express ideas.
Can’t Say Nothing (Lorem Ipsum, Moving Patterns)
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Can’t Say Nothing (Lorem Ipsum, Moving Patterns)
Jan 17
Open Studio 1-2-3 is a combination of three design/make studios (Generator CNC, LUBO Design and Q&A Design) that love to create, collaborate and share what they are doing. Come and meet us in our shared space.
Open Studio 1-2-3
Exhibition
Open Studio 1-2-3
Jan 20
Deep in the woods, a soaring red oak tree was ready for a new life. These furniture pieces don’t simply make use of its material, but embody the strength and stability of its lost presence.
Case Study 1: On Mass
Window Installation
Case Study 1: On Mass
Jan 10
'Exoteric Design' explores the current hegemony around design culture and its tendency to support and legitimize capitalist norms and ideas. This collaborative exhibition explores human-centred design, material-led research, oral traditions, and open knowledge-sharing as a means to create meaningful connections and collapse structural hierarchies.
Exoteric Design: Material as Mentor
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Exoteric Design: Material as Mentor
Jan 17
In this exhibition OCAD U Industrial Design students use investigative, people-first, ground-up approaches to better design our world, and to recognize and facilitate our personal, physical and mental diversity.
Design for Health, Wellness, Aging and Inclusion
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Design for Health, Wellness, Aging and Inclusion
Jan 17
Address is an entirely new approach to showing, seeking and collecting new works by modern makers. Going into its 7th consecutive year, Address is a well-known exhibit presenting works by both established and up-and-coming studio based artists and designers.
Address
Exhibition
Address
Jan 14
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Vertical Intersections is an itinerant public installation that consists of a series of vertical gardens with workshops that invite locals into shared public space to grow plants, share stories, and create community.
Vertical Intersections Installation, Workshop & Pok¡ Launch
Exhibition
Vertical Intersections Installation, Workshop & Pok¡ Launch
Jan 18
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Choose from 3 workshops by makers in the book 'Toronto Makes'. Get your make on in the Kimpton Saint George Hotel’s Northern Suite. Includes bites, sips + signed copy of 'Toronto Makes' by Randi Bergman. Space limited. Rates, details: makejoy.co
Toronto Makes Workshops
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Toronto Makes Workshops
Jan 23
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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
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Designing Canada – An evening to celebrate the best in Canadian design
Jan 21
Formed from 3D scans of the Erie Canal, and (de)formed by the canal’s waters, these cast vessels think with the force of water, with the Erie Canal, to tell a story about the cost of “progress” in central New York.
The Story of Water: The Erie Canal as a Site of Untold Stories
Exhibition
The Story of Water: The Erie Canal as a Site of Untold Stories
Jan 17
Triga Creative will be opening our studio doors to the Toronto community to share how we have been working to innovate sustainable approaches to performance design and present seed concepts from our inaugural Eco-Design Charrette.
Triga Open Studio
Exhibition
Triga Open Studio
Jan 21
Through digital textiles, this project announces the road as a space of contestation and conflicting memories—every road is charged. Thus, we remember: we “member again,” piecing together fragments from what has transpired to make sense of our present. Project team: Linda Zhang, Biko Mandela Gray and Alisha Kapoor.
Phenomenology of the Road
Window Installation
Phenomenology of the Road
Jan 17
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