Nuit Blanche: Passage by smjilk
Check out Passage at Nuit Blanche 2018 this weekend! (more…)
Nuit Blanche: Starscape
Missed Starscape at Nuit Blanche last fall? (more…)
STUDENT WORK / Food Container Installations / 1A Studio
Monday and Thursday are studio days. On these days in particular, the third floor undergraduate studio is filled with a frenetic energy of design, research, and exploration. Students can usually be found talking excitedly with design professors and classmates in a habitat saturated with trace sketches, study models, and empty coffee cups. Every week we’ll share a completed project, churned out from this energetic studio environment. (more…)
Nuit Blanche: Porta-Party by SUPER/TYPICAL
Porta-Party is a re-invention of the public washroom developed for Nuit Blanche 2017 by students from UWSA. Check out photos and learn more about the installation below. (more…)
Nuit Blanche: STARscape by F_RMlab
With Nuit Blanche 2017 coming up this weekend, F_RMlab is tirelessly preparing its installation STARscape. (more…)
SPOTLIGHT: Shape and Colour in Motion @ //MOVE
Graduate student Xiao Wen Xu shares photos of a mural she completed as a part of the OAA’s //MOVE: Big Installation Party. (more…)
What Makes a Space a Place?
What Makes a Space a Place? Waterloo School of Architecture July 4 – 26, 2017 Led by Jonathan Friedman of PARTISANS Architects, a team of Waterloo Architecture students will create a site-specific built installation on the outdoor plaza at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramics. Coinciding with Waterloo Architecture’s 50th anniversary, visitors will be invited to embellish colourful benches with mosaic tile as part of a month-long communal art-making activation exploring the scarcity of meaningful public...
Bright Whispers: Tales of Homecoming
This fall, Paniz Moayeri and Haneen Dalla-Ali created an installation to shed light on the experiences of newcomers to Canada. Bright Whispers is a forest of lanterns, each inscribed with a different story of immigration, written in the native language of the story teller. Samuel Ganton invites us to take a closer look at the installation, and reflects on the significance of these stories for Canada and for this moment in history.
PLANETERRAEUM: F_RMlab at Nuit Blanche 2014
The F_RMlab initiated project PLANETERRAEUM which was exhibited at Nuit Blanche 2014 is soon to be re-installed in the Ontario Science Centre! The team has also compiled a detailed book outlining the conception and process of the entire project.
Archi-TEXTS / Theatres of Osmosis / 2A Iconography
Archi-TEXTS features Laura Di Fiore’s installation and essay entitled Theatres of Omosis which contrasts Medieval and Contemporary art and theater. Each form of expression asks the participant to investigate social ideals through a journey of thought. Through the exploration of three-dimensional space the observer is capable of obtaining heightened consciousness and elevated thinking.