The current 3A Design Studio course ARCH 392: Large Urban Building is hosting the Creative City Toronto: A Symposium Exploring Next-Generation City Making on Monday March 2nd at 10:00am. The event is open to to all students, faculty and the general public, free of charge.
SYMPOSIUM BRIEF
The event will explore how buildings and public spaces might develop in future dense areas of the city. This day-long symposium will include a focus on issues affecting Toronto’s rapidly growing downtown core, framed by examples of current and future international development. The event will include leading thinkers, developers and designers speaking to the complex and often competing agendas that influence the built fabric of contemporary cities. A wide range of presentations will be offered from visionary and speculative projects, to precisely focused details of current practice. Discussion will include cultural, economic, social and environmental sustainability and next generations of urban and architectural types.
PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
Ila Berman, Director of UW School of Architecture
Philip Beesley, 3A Studio CoordinatorMorning Session
Michael Leckman On The Ground, In The Creative City
Lori Martin Liberty Village – Gentrification and Development Pressures
André Sorensen Choices for Scarborough: Transit, Walking, and Intensification in Toronto’s Inner SuburbsPanel Discussion
Lunch
1:30 pm Afternoon Session
Kim Storey Reconfiguring our Historical Infrastructure into a New Civic Regeneration
Donald Chong Site Unseen: An Incremental Urbanism for Toronto
Janne Corneil Law of Accelerating Returns
Drew Sinclair The Warp and The Weft
Panel Discussion
