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Kick off the 10th DesignTO Festival at our official Launch Party! Mix and mingle at the event that brings Toronto’s creative community together. As a fundraiser for the non-profit Festival, all proceeds will go to help achieve our mission to advance design in Canada.
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DesignTO Launch Party
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Front of House by Chris Foster and Layne Hinton transforms takeout lids – an everyday material that is normally discarded – into a shining beacon of light and motion that changes throughout the day with shifting sunlight. The work flutters freely, making visible the often unnoticed air currents in the exhibition space.
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Front of House
Jan 17
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50,000+ LegoTM bricks in a Habitat67-like fantasy city with 1000 terraced pavilions, illuminated mega-tower and kinetic buildings moving through the landscape. An optimistic assembly of elements that speak to the inherent creativity and ever-evolving nature of cities, skylines and communities.
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Toying With Utopia
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Partners of Mexican design studio Anagrama speak about teamwork and collaboration in their multidisciplinary practice. They discuss projects ranging from interior architecture to branding for beauty and furniture multinationals. Monocle’s Toronto team will interview them following their talk.
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How can architects best respond to the climate crisis? Through directly addressing the frightening realities of climate change, this Toronto Society of Architects forum seeks to identify concrete actions architects can employ immediately to curb the negative effects of the building industry on our planet.
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TSA Urban Affairs Forum: Addressing the Climate Crisis
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Inspired by tree-like structure and the experience of light penetrating through tree tops.
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Pulse
Jan 17
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'Fantasy Foliage' by Apoorva Varma is an immersive Textile installation. The artist has adopted the persona of a "Textile Fantasy Author" to explore ideas of story; from thought to space and text to textile, challenging what creates a narrative.
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Fantasy Foliage
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