For one night the Grand House was revived, once again filled with raucous architecture students as we revisited a remarkable four months spent in Rome. All the furniture was pushed aside to to make room for the work of the graduating class of 2013. The walls of the living room were covered in a diverse range of projects focusing on the developing post-industrial neighbourhood of Ostiense in Rome. Studio desk lamps illuminated the suspended proposals...
Canada’s most recent Venice Biennial submission, curated through a collaboration between University of Winnipeg’s Jae-Sung Chon + 5468796 Architecture [Migrating Landscapes Organizers], stands apart from its predecessors in one spectacular way. When it was selected by Canada Council to represent Canada, there was nothing to exhibit. Design at Riverside will tell the harrowing tale of crowd-sourcing a Biennale-level exhibition in 17 months. Expect schedules, graphics, to-do lists, sketches and mountains of snapshots. The grand opening is...
For the first exhibit of the summer Design at Riverside is collaborating with the Association of Registered Graphic Designers to showcase two distinct groups of work: projects by local designers in Design at Work: The Best of Western Ontario, and winning entries of the first-ever international Social Good Design Awards (or So Good). As its name suggests, So Good aims to encourage designers to tackle the challenging prospect of designing for a cause, whether for...