15,000 Rosaries is one of nine room installations at the Gladstone Hotel’s 10th Annual Come Up to My Room (CUTMR) Event, open this weekend as part of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival. UWSA students Shane Neill and Virginia Fernandez comprise 2 of the 3 part non-profit art collaborative Fictional Territories. 15,000 Rosaries Traditions contain within themselves latent opportunities to undermine the totalizing forces of globalization; that which is freely given over can be incomparably more...
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Workplace Affairs is an exploration of the relationship of space to the creative process. The exhibition is part of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival and runs Saturday January 19 to Sunday January 27, 2013 at East of Keele. Curated and photographed by LeuWebb Projects, the exhibition gives visitors a peek into the creative spaces of a selected group of local artists; examining artefacts of production and documenting the workspaces that enabled their creation. Featuring the...
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Two 3B chair projects will be featured at the Gladstone Hotel’s 10th Annual Come Up to My Room (CUTMR) Event: a chair for Jorge Luis Borges by Aidan Mitchelmore and Andrew Ashbury and a chair for Jiro Ono by Haley Zhou and Lauren Tom. In both cases, digital fabrication made the designs possible. The poetry and short stories of Jorge Luis Borges are often driven by complex philosophical themes such as labyrinths, dreams, recursion,...
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Architectural designers often need to strike an uneasy balance between idealism and reality. Under most circumstances, architects are restricted by clients, budgets, and available technologies. However, divorced from traditional constraints, visionary concepts of new dwellings, new cities, and new “worlds” will spark greater forms of innovation and drive creativity for future generations. The exploration of new spatial boundaries and conceptual environments for design will irrevocably alter the human experience while adapting new challenging roles for...
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Winter 2013 marks the continuation of the Arriscraft Lecture Series – ARCHITECTURE OUTSIDE THE LINES – investigating the edge of professional architecture, where architects, clients, planners, and other participants in the building world talk about particular aspects of their work outside of the conventional boundaries of the architectural profession. Thursday January 17th | 6:45 PM Peter Clewes architectsAlliance Toronto Intensification: Policy, Politics and Design Photo: http://www.architectsalliance.com/
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As our world expands, its components are becoming infinitely small: smartphones, microchips, mp3’s, teacup chihuahuas and so forth. We have become obsessed, and increasingly adept, at compacting complex systems and ideas into cute little packages. The downsizing movement has become immensely profitable; even the infamous American consumerism has been won over by this ubiquitous trend, putting pressure on product designers to cater to a marketplace where “smaller is better”; nanotechnology, ‘fun-sized’ snacks, Smart cars,...
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We are pleased to announce that the ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) Conference on Adaptive Architecture will take place in the Fall of 2013 right here at the Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge, Ontario. From the ACADIA website: The 2013 ACADIA conference will be held at Waterloo Architecture in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada on October 24-27, 2013. The event is supported by the research networks of the University of Waterloo, University at...
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Patrick Cheung's '100 Strangers' takes a wonderful look at photography's ability to connect people.
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