The Galt Collegiate Institute’s Community Amphitheatre is an outdoor 400+ person theatre, located just behind the school, facing the Grand River. It has accommodated a variety of events ranging from music festivals, art shows, and movie filming to weddings, and for many in the school community, it is a hidden treasure. The school board is planning to demolish this theatre, so the local community is working to raise awareness in order to preserve it for years to...
Graduate student Kat Fu recently started Urbsvidi, an online store for illustrated prints and handmade goods. The drawings are playful isometrics of Toronto along with some of more intimate moments of urban life. I interviewed Kat to learn more about her work. (more…)
Liyang Zhang‘s master’s thesis Geographies of Urban Filth rethinks the spatial and social constructs of dirt and cleanliness through an intervention at the North Toronto Wastewater Treatment Plant. (more…)
Five years ago, then-graduate student Chanel Dehond launched M’ling Shop, a line of playful greeting cards. She has since moved to New York City, shifted into design strategy, and started teaching, yet M’ling Shop continues. We catch up with Chanel to find out how her work has changed and developed over the past half decade. (more…)
Trimira Garach, Waterloo’s 2018 OAA Guild Medal winner, shares an anecdote and exercise on developing a cohesive thesis argument. (more…)
An excerpt from Victoria Ngai’s recently defended M.Arch thesis entitled “90 Minutes with the Machine.” (more…)
Land reclamation is a form of land management, common in the American Southwest, that seeks to alter arid landscapes through a fabricated re-balancing of the hydrological ledger (more…)
Quietly tucked in a downtown church basement is a Galt brunch staple—apple dumplings. (more…)
The Buoyant Foundation Project research group recently took 3rd place in an international disaster resilience design competition. Their entry consisted of four retrofitted amphibious homes in rural Vietnam. (more…)
While working through her masters thesis, recent graduate Liyang Zhang picked up pottery as a hobby. (more…)