This past winter, an international ideas competition was launched to develop creative ways of reimagining the 5km-long hydro corridor that cuts across Toronto from Davenport Village to the Annex. Called The Green Line, the focus of the competition is to find a unified vision for further development of the site and to create a dialogue […]

Just a quick reminder that PULP Paper Art Party is happening tomorrow night! Those looking to make the drive down should be sure to buy a ticket online now as we are selling out fast! Here’s a sneak peak at the work in progress… Visit pulpartparty.ca for more information and to buy tickets!  

Yesterday marked the beginning of the Gladstone Hotel’s inaugural year of Gladstone Grow Op: Exploring landscape and place. The four-day event (on now until Sunday) celebrates innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape and place across a broad range of creative practices. UWSA’s F_RMlab is participating this year with their project Field Guide, but the event […]

Sam Oswald discusses the design collaborative Boko with founder Adam Schwartzentruber, and learns about new ways to engage our environment. I am driving with Adam Schwartzentruber from Cambridge to his family’s farm near Wellesley, Ontario. He has been telling me about the items offered by his design collaborative, Boko. Boko is currently run by him and his fiancée, […]

If you’ve seen a couple of masters students laser cutting endless rolls of mylar and/or playing with arduinos, motors and a bunch of wiring in the past month, you may know F_RMlab has been busy preparing for an installation at GrowOp. GrowOp is an exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel that celebrates innovative ideas and conceptual […]

ABSTRACT by David Schellingerhoudt: Architecture is an act of agency, and a technology that can be learned by anyone for their own purpose. It evolved as a system of organization and a protective shell for our fragile bodies, a vast, complex technology that enables human survival. Yet despite its universal nature, we have artificially limited […]

ABSTRACT by Ningxin (Sophia) Zhu: China has become one of the world’s economic engines. One major driving force is its rapid urbanization. However such rapid development has resulted in issues such as resource and energy depletion, pollution and environmental deterioration. Recently the government has endorsed green buildings and has urged ministries to work out a […]

The annual awards banquet is perhaps the largest gathering at UWSA, drawing not only current students but off-term undergrads, recent alumni, staff, and faculty. Amid fare from local favourite The Bombay Grill and desserts lovingly made by student volunteers, professors and staff recognized accomplishments in all areas, including design, cultural history, technology, and overall contributions to […]

A large and diverse group gathered on Tuesday for the opening reception of UWSA’s ninth annual exhibition of exemplary student work, this year renamed STUDIO to highlight the working process behind the finished projects on display. Faculty curator Andrew Levitt says the driving force behind the exhibition is not only recognizing student achievement, but also […]

A descent into the ravine is to step through a tear in urbanity. The terrain vague is a foil to the capitalist city; against a demand for order, specificity, and integration, it is disorienting, banal, erratic. Operating outside the constraints of dominant social structures, it harbours the unconscious of the city, not only an inevitable, […]