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'Housing Multitudes 2.0: A Bigger Picture for Toronto' unlocks the DNA of the suburb to create a composite “big picture” of how the urbanism that characterizes many North American cities can be transformed for the greater benefit of all.

Housing Multitudes 2.0: A Bigger Picture for Toronto

Exhibition

Housing Multitudes 2.0: A Bigger Picture for Toronto

Jan 25

'ILLUMINESCENT' draws people to come in, escape the quotidian and contemplate the ephemeral on their journey through the lobby. The fluidity of the form invites people to interact with it, igniting a sense of wonder within visitors.

Exhibition

Jan 20

An Indigenous woman has never appeared on a Canadian banknote. Working with Indigenous artists, the Native Women’s Association of Canada created 'Change The Bill', a collection of bills that bear the faces of history’s most significant Indigenous women.

Change The Bill

Exhibition

Change The Bill

Jan 20

'Divining (A Long Story V)' is a new evolution in Pirie’s series of illuminated soft-sculptural installations. This rendition intertwines around column structures of 40 St. Clair West, considering our inherent interconnection and thirst for communion with the more-than-human-natural world.

Divining (A Long Story V)

Exhibition

Divining (A Long Story V)

Jan 20

A two-person exhibition by Hamilton-based artist and weaver Amanda Rataj and her late grandfather, master woodworker Rudolph Rataj, who was the principal designer and shop manager for a successful Toronto furniture company Brunswick Manufacturing in the '60s and '70s.

Exhibition

Jan 14

'Dying.exhibits' is an exhibition series on end of life, inviting participants to think about their relationship with life and death through art and design. Let’s get comfortable with the uncomfortable and start talking about what truly matters.

Dying.exhibits 2023

Exhibition

Dying.exhibits 2023

Jan 11

DESIGNwith, a community-based creative collective, is exhibiting their namesake furniture collection along with submissions from professionals and design students to answer the question: How do we democratize the creation of furniture pieces using accessible materials and methods of fabrication?

Democratizing the Creation of Furniture

Exhibition

Democratizing the Creation of Furniture

Jan 20

Showcasing the work of eight Canadian designers and studios, ‘Purpose & Play’ is an exhibition that explores new prototypes for contemporary life focusing on domestic objects that are fun to use and fun to own.

DesignTO Project Exhibition

Jan 16

‘Blueprint’ is a group exhibition featuring 10 young artists and designers. Inspired by a DesignTO Youth six-week residency program, these youth create new work that considers the future of Toronto as they envision it.

DesignTO Youth: Blueprint

DesignTO Project Exhibition

DesignTO Youth: Blueprint

Jan 20

‘Forecast’ is a group exhibition featuring the work of nine local and international artists and designers exploring themes related to the climate crisis specifically as it relates to the weather and how environmental changes impact communities on a global scale.

DesignTO Project Exhibition

Jan 11

'But first, the framework' features four architectural thesis projects united by their critical interrogation of normative systems in the built environment and structured around the development of subversive methodologies that imagine new modes of interacting with the world as designers.

But first, the framework

Exhibition

But first, the framework

Jan 20

A gallery curated from design-based research that showcases traditional and contemporary works of African architecture, interiors, furniture and décor from pre-colonial to the present and contributions of the African diaspora to design within the built environment.

African Art, Architecture & Design: The Lost History Pages

Exhibition

African Art, Architecture & Design: The Lost History Pages

Jan 21

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