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Kick off the new 10-day Festival at the DesignTO Launch Party! Join designers, architects, artists, makers, and curators at a launch event that brings the city’s creative community together to celebrate design.

DesignTO Launch Party

DesignTO Project Event

DesignTO Launch Party

Jan 18

Love local expertise? Then, join us for bus tours of DesignTO Festival hotspots led by local design and art experts: journalist Alex Bozikovic, innovation designer Heather Daam-Rossi, arts entertainer Kaleb Robertson, and Dean of Design Dori Tunstall.

DesignTO Guided Bus Tours

DesignTO Project Event

DesignTO Guided Bus Tours

Jan 19

Is process as critical as design in its final form? ‘Design Unseen’ is an exhibition of work by six graphic designers that exposes unseen creative processes.

DesignTO Project Exhibition

Jan 18

Get hot and sweat at TO DO’s first dance party: TO DO or Die. Dance the night away to the beats of DJs Joe Blow + Fly Lady Di.

TO DO or Die Party

DesignTO Project Event

TO DO or Die Party

Jan 19 2018

Mix and mingle with Toronto's art and design community at the #TODO18 Festival Party! Enjoy the sounds of DJs Joe Blow and Sigourney Beaver, and an installation by Jordan Soderberg Mills.

TO DO Festival Party

DesignTO Project Event

TO DO Festival Party

Jan 15 2018

Join us for a tour of architect-designed lobby installations at the intersection of Yonge + St. Clair with three experts working in the field of public art: Ilana Altman, Sean Martindale, and Anjuli Solanki.

TO DO Tours: Creating Communities Through Art

DesignTO Project Event

TO DO Tours: Creating Communities Through Art

Jan 20 2018

Through a series of curated images, this installation at 40 St. Clair West presents construction waste reframed as opportunity. As part of a larger strategy of sustainability. superkül hopes to encourage the practice of creative upcycling through innovation and the adoption of architectural best practices.

Second Life by superkül

DesignTO Project Exhibition

Second Life by superkül

Jan 15

This installation explores the positive attributes of "the space between," and how these attributes may manifest in physical form. IBI Group intends to engage with the public and to empower them to contribute their views and how they interact with the public environment.

The Space Between by IBI Group

DesignTO Project Exhibition

The Space Between by IBI Group

Jan 15

You are bestowed the power to go back in time and undo one thing about Toronto, what would it be? Listen as leading architecture firms Gensler, IBI Group, and superkül take their turn pressing ctrl Z on Toronto and envisioning an alternative future.

TO DO Talks: Undo Toronto

DesignTO Project Event

TO DO Talks: Undo Toronto

Jan 16 2018

TO DO Tours offer festival attendees the unique opportunity to explore creative spaces not often available to the public. This year, we focus on Geary Avenue to see how this former industrial neighbourhood is transforming into a hub for artists and designers.

TO DO Tours: Geary Avenue

DesignTO Project Event

TO DO Tours: Geary Avenue

Jan 21 2018

‘Work/Life’ is an exhibition that explores fresh and original houseware and working products for contemporary life, showcasing the work of 8 Canadian designers and studios.

DesignTO Project Exhibition

Jan 15

In this talk, Aberrant Architecture founders David Chambers and Kevin Haley will discuss their multidisciplinary practice with friend and past collaborator Beatrice Galilee, Associate Curator of Architecture and Design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

TO DO Talks: Aberrant Architecture

DesignTO Project Event

TO DO Talks: Aberrant Architecture

Jan 19 2018

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