January 19 - 24, 2010
About TIDF
Toronto International Design Festival
TIDF (Toronto International Design Festival) is a new festival celebrating local and international design. Between January 20 – 24, a variety of venues around the city will host contemporary design events, including exhibits, symposiums, lectures, and fairs.
Complete Showroom listing here. For a complete listing see below.
Be sure to visit the TIDF sponsoring events.
Event Dates & Information
january 19 & 20click to view details
Event Listing January 19 & 20
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January 19
Design Exchange
2009 Design Exchange Awards
Location: Exhibit Hall
234 Bay St.
Toronto, ON M5J
Website: www.dx.org
Times: January 13 – March 7, 2010
Event Description: The Design Exchange Awards, presented by Canadian Business, promotes Canadian design excellence and recognizes the critical role of design in all types of organizations including commercial entities (large and small), not-for-profit organizations, and the public sector. The Awards celebrate the success stories achieved through close partnerships between clients and designers. The DXAs are Canada’s only award program to judge design by results, balancing function, aesthetics, and economic success.
Designers in the Classroom
Location: Design Exchange CDC and Teknion Lounge
234 Bay St
Toronto, ON M5J
Website: www.dx.org
Times: Jan 13 – Mar 7
Event Description: Launched in the fall of 2003, Designers in the Classroom brings professional designers into elementary and secondary school classrooms to develop design projects with students that enrich curriculum and broaden the roles of designers in their communities. This year’s line up includes designers Hilary Dennis, Victoria DeCesare, Richard Carmichael, and Dyan Parro. The Ontario Arts Council and the TorontoDominion Bank generously support this program.
Gardiner Museum
Cut/Copy/Paste: The Fine Tradition of Copying in Canadian Ceramics
Location: Gardiner Museum Lobby
111 Queen’s Park,
Toronto, ON M5S 2C7
Website: www.gardinermuseum.on.ca
Times: Jan 8 – Feb 5
Event Description: Cut, Copy, Paste: The Fine Tradition of Copying in Canadian Ceramics. Ceramic artists have borrowed forms and designs from each other and from other media for thousands of years. This mini-exhibition reveals how Canadian ceramic art has been expanded and enriched over the past century by the appropriation of formal and design elements from sources as diverse as Ukranian textiles and First Nations ceremonial art. The exhibition has been organized by the Toronto design firm Motherbrand in conjunction with the Gardiner Museum. Motherbrand is also sponsoring a lecture at the Gardiner Museum on January 24th by Cynthia Hathaway, a Canadian artist who often uses the strategies of copying and sampling in her work. The exhibition and lecture are both associated with the Toronto International Design Festival, which will take place from January 21 to 24, 2010.
Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
Body + Object
Location:
990 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1H1
Website: www.craft.on.ca
Times: Jan 5 – 31, Opening Night Reception Jan 20, 8:30 – 5:30
Event Description: The body is perhaps today’s most ubiquitous cultural object, especially in its use to announce identity through the ever-changing landscape of apparel. Craft finds its place in this process of disclosure with work designed to adorn, protect, and even introspectively examine the body. Body + Object offers work (ad)dressing the real as well as thematic presence of the body,where traditional craft media appear in new forms and use style as a means to investigation.
OCAD
Fashion Forward: Toronto (ad)dresses the futures
Location: OCAD Professional Gallery
100 McCaul Street. (level 2)
Website: www.ocad.ca/progallery
Times: Oct 21-Jan 24 Wed-Fri, 11-7; Sat-Sun noon-6. Closed Mon, Tues & holidays.
Event Description: Fashion Forward starts with Toronto couture, featuring elegant stalwarts alongside more radical designers. From there, it goes on to explore how this community’s trademark inventiveness inspires new forms of social responsiveness by highlighting sustainability, wearable tech and special needs. In conjunction with this exhibit, OCAD president Sara Diamond will chair a panel discussion about wearable technology on Tuesday January 19 at 6:30. Produced in association with the Fashion Design Council of Canada.
Wearable Technology Panel with Sara Diamond — Today Only
Location: OCAD Professional Gallery
100 McCaul Street. (level 2)
Website: www.ocad.ca/progallery
Times: Jan 19, 6:30pm
Event Description: In conjunction with the Fashion Forward exhibit, OCAD president Sara Diamond will chair a panel discussion about wearable technology on Tuesday January 19 at 6:30. Produced in association with the Fashion Design Council of Canada.
Toronto Society of Architects
Toronto Walking Strategy: Designers Forum — Today Only
Location: Arts and Letters Club
14 Elm Street
Toronto, ON
Website: www.toronto.ca/transportation/walking/pdf/walking-strategy.pdf or www.torontosocietyofarchitects.ca/
Times: Jan 19, 6pm-6:30pm drinks (cash bar), 6:30pm-8:30pm panel discussion
Event Description: Can the design community bring Torontonians to their feet?
The Toronto Walking Strategy, which was recently adopted by Toronto City Council, outlines what it takes to make Toronto a great walking city. It was guided by 3 key principles: universal accessibility, safety and design excellence. But with over 50 recommendations, where do we begin and which projects will have the greatest impact?
Join us for a lively discussion and debate with colleagues from the architecture, landscape architecture, interior, industrial and graphic design community.
Moderator: Arlene Gould, Strategic Director, Design Industry Advisory Committee
Design Panel Members include: Tim Poupore ACIDO, Scott Torrance OALA, Antonio Gomez-Palacio TSA, Susan Mole ARIDO, and Wayne McCutcheon R.G.D.
RSVP: jlee8@toronto.ca
January 20th
Art Gallery of Ontario
Boots, Bustles and Bustiers:
Fashion Through the Ages in the AGO’s collection — Starts Today
Location:
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Tours meet in Walker Court.
Website: www.ago.net
Times: Daily tours from Jan 20 – 24 at 12 and 3 pm
Event Description: Explore the collection from bottom to top and discover beauty, power, status, class and sexuality in fashions from the 16C to now. From the extravagant wigs in the Thomson European collection, to the sumptuous silks of the Dutch 17C and the mini -skirts of the liberated sixties what can we tell about the place, time and ideals of beauty from these costumes?
Design Exchange
2009 Design Exchange Awards
Location: Exhibit Hall
234 Bay St
Toronto, ON M5J
Website: www.dx.org
Times: January 13 – March 7, 2010
Event Description: The Design Exchange Awards, presented by Canadian Business, promotes Canadian design excellence and recognizes the critical role of design in all types of organizations including commercial entities (large and small), not-for-profit organizations, and the public sector. The Awards celebrate the success stories achieved through close partnerships between clients and designers. The DXAs are Canada’s only award program to judge design by results, balancing function, aesthetics, and economic success.
Designers in the Classroom
Location: Design Exchange CDC and Teknion Lounge
234 Bay St.
Website: www.dx.org
Times: Jan 13 – Mar 7
Event Description: Launched in the fall of 2003, Designers in the Classroom brings professional designers into elementary and secondary school classrooms to develop design projects with students that enrich curriculum and broaden the roles of designers in their communities. This year’s line up includes designers Hilary Dennis, Victoria DeCesare, Richard Carmichael, and Dyan Parro. The Ontario Arts Council and the TorontoDominion Bank generously support this program.
Gardiner Museum
Cut/Copy/Paste
Location: Gardiner Museum Lobby
111 Queen’s Park
Toronto, ON M5S 2C7
Website: www.gardinermuseum.on.ca
Times: Jan 8 – Feb 5
Event Description: Cut, Copy, Paste: The Fine Tradition of Copying in Canadian Ceramics. Ceramic artists have borrowed forms and designs from each other and from other media for thousands of years. This mini-exhibition reveals how Canadian ceramic art has been expanded and enriched over the past century by the appropriation of formal and design elements from sources as diverse as Ukranian textiles and First Nations ceremonial art. The exhibition has been organized by the Toronto design firm Motherbrand in conjunction with the Gardiner Museum. Motherbrand is also sponsoring a lecture at the Gardiner Museum on January 24th by Cynthia Hathaway, a Canadian artist who often uses the strategies of copying and sampling in her work. The exhibition and lecture are both associated with the Toronto International Design Festival, which will take place from January 21 to 24, 2010
OCAD
Fashion Forward: Toronto (ad)dresses the futures
Location: OCAD Professional Gallery
100 McCaul Street. (level 2)
Website: www.ocad.ca/progallery
Times: Oct 21-Jan 24 Wed-Fri, 11-7; Sat-Sun noon-6. Closed Mon, Tues & holidays.
Event Description: Fashion Forward starts with Toronto couture, featuring elegant stalwarts alongside more radical designers. From there, it goes on to explore how this community’s trademark inventiveness inspires new forms of social responsiveness by highlighting sustainability, wearable tech and special needs. In conjunction with this exhibit, OCAD president Sara Diamond will chair a panel discussion about wearable technology on Tuesday January 19 at 6:30. Produced in association with the Fashion Design Council of Canada.
Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
Body + Object – Opening Night
Location:
990 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1H1
Website: www.craft.on.ca
Times: Jan 5 – 31, Opening Night Reception Jan 20, 8:30 – 5:30
Event Description: The body is perhaps today’s most ubiquitous cultural object, especially in its use to announce identity through the ever-changing landscape of apparel. Craft finds its place in this process of disclosure with work designed to adorn, protect, and even introspectively examine the body. Body + Object offers work (ad)dressing the real as well as thematic presence of the body,where traditional craft media appear in new forms and use style as a means to investigation.
Paul Petro Special Projects Space
Heavy Metal: Cast New Objects
Location: Paul Petro Special Projects Space
962 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
Website: www.heavymetaldesign.tumblr.com
Time: Jan 20 11am – 7pm, Jan 21-22 10am-10pm, Jan 23 10am-11pm, Jan 24 10am-7pm.
Event Description: Local designers team up to explore the formal properties of cast metal in design. The result is nine new cast objects that include conceptual explorations, domestic products, and furniture. Works by Joy Charbonneau, Chromoly, Dieter Janssen, Luflic, Mat Cult, Derek McLeod, Crawford Noble, Rob Southcott, and Ed Zec.Exhibition organized by Joy Charbonneau.
Sponsored by : architectsAlliance, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Radiant Dark 2010 /Assets & Values presented by MADE Design
Location: Commerce Court, ground floor lobby
199 Bay St (SE corner of King and Bay), Toronto, ON
Website: www.madedesign.ca
Times: Jan 20, 7-10pm, Jan 21-23, 11am-7pm, Jan 24 11am-6pm
Event Description : : Opening reception January 20th, RSVP required to attend. Please email rsvp@madedesign.ca.
Since its inception in 2008 Radiant Dark has grown into a popular series, becoming a recognized, independent forum for the introduction of quality new works. The 2010 theme of Assets & Values brings together 32 independent design studios reckoning with material, moral, ideological and aesthetic mores in their design of everyday objects. The current economic obsession demands an authentic and individual assessment of what constitutes real worth or value.
Royal Ontario Museum
Cut/Copy/Paste: Creative Reuse in Canadian Design
Location: Institute for Contemporary Culture
Royal Ontario Museum,
100 Queen’s Park, Toronto ON
Website: www.rom.on.ca/icc/ or www.motherbrand.com
Times: Jan 20 – 31
Event Description: Creative agency Motherbrand explores the idea of reuse, recycling and upscaling in Canadian design. Reaching back to indigenous design and the improvised solutions of early pioneers, to more recent work from Tobias Wong, Douglas Coupland and more, this form of pragmatic redesign is behind some of Canada’s most iconic designs. Come to the majestic ICC space in the ROM crystal to see highlights of more than 100 years of this creative process at work.
TERREFORM 1
HOMEWAY: The Great Suburban Exodus
Location: TBA
Website: www.terreform.org/projects_habitat_homeway.html
Time: Jan 7 to Feb 20, 2010. Opening Thursday January 7 6-8 pm
Event Description: How can our cities extend into the suburbs sustainability? We propose to put our future American dwellings on wheels. These retrofitted houses will flock towards downtown city cores and back. We intended to reinforce our existing highways between cities with an intelligent renewable infrastructure. Therefore our homes will be enabled to flow continuously from urban core to core.
Our proposal envisions an immense and vital solution to a fundamental problem: American suburbs fail to work efficiently. In the next 25 years we will build 56 million new homes that will consume 18.8 million acres of virgin land and emit 7.3 billion tons of CO2 per year. These frameworks of development need to be rethought to meet our ecological carrying capacities. Why should we put further energy into past inferior patterns? America needs to deliver dwellings closer to our existing main infrastructural arteries. We cannot continue to overextend our thinly disturbed resource lines.
America has always been a nation on the road. We desire to move the suburbs on smart networked wheels. We intend to affix a diverse range of mobility mechanisms to home units that generate our novel HOMEWAY system. In the future, the physical home will remain permanent but its location will be transient. Our static suburbs will be transformed into a dynamic and deployable flow. Houses will have the option to switch from parked to low speed. Homes, big box retail, movie theaters, supermarkets, business hubs, food production, and power plants will depart from their existing sprawled communities and line up along highways to create a truly breathing interconnected metabolic urbanism. Dense ribbons of food, energy, waste and water elements will follow the direction of moving population clusters.
Credits: Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel, Philip Weller, Ian Slover, Landon Young, Cecil Howell, Andrea Michalski, Sofie Bamberg, Alex Colard, Zachary Aders.
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Event Listing January 21
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Interior Design Show — Opening Night
Location: New! Metro Toronto Convention Centre
255 Front Street West
Toronto, ON
Website: www.interiordesignshow.com
Times: Opening Night Jan 21 7pm-10pm, Jan 22 9am-7pm, Jan 23 10am-7pm, Jan 24 10am-6pm
Event Description: The Opening Night Party is your chance to preview IDS 10 in style. The Interior Design Show/IDS 10 is Canada’s largest contemporary design event. Since our inception in 1998, over 500,000 design professionals, consumers and media have attended. The newest and most innovative in international and Canadian products are annually presented by 300 exhibitors. Inspirational exhibits feature both emerging and established designers; and highlight international interior design, architecture and industrial design trends. The most influential architects and designers from around the world share their design philosophies and experiences within the international keynote speakers program.
Conversations in Design:
A World Without Oil — Today Only
Location: Design Exchange
234 Bay St
Toronto, ON M5J
Website: www.interiordesignshow.com/world-without-oil
Time: Jan 21 9am-6pm
Event Description: The Interior Design Shows’ inaugural Conversations in Design launches on January 21, 2010. Leading designers from around the globe are invited to imagine A World Without Oil at an all-day symposium in Toronto. They will share their practical experiences in sustainable design, and dare to dream of a society that is no longer dependent on oil. The symposium will provide critical insight to new and alternative practices, materials, technologies and products. It will challenge its audience to think outside the box, and ultimately illuminate and inspire on the provocative subject of A World Without Oil. The symposium is recognized by the Interior Design Continuing Education Council (IDEC) and award .6 credits for full day and .3 credits.
Conference Schedule:
8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
presented by City of Toronto, Economic Development
9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks Jesse Ashlock
editor-in-chief of I.D. magazine in New York City,
9:15 – 10:15 Session 1
Mirko Zardini – “Sorry out of Gas”
10:15 – 10:45 Session 2
Fritz Haeg – “Welcoming the Wild”
11:00 – 11: 30 Session 3
Tord Boontje and Enrico Bressan – “Design with Conscious”
moderated by Nelda Rodger, AZURE
11:30 – 12:00 Session 4
Sheila Kennedy – “After Effects: Visionary Design Now”
12:00 – 12:30 Session 5
“Bruce Mau’s World Without Oil”
1:30 – 2:00 Session 6
Thomas Auer – “Burned out–What’s next?”
2:00 – 2:30 Session 7
Ted Howes – “The Energy Experience”
2:30 – 3:00 Session 8
Todd Wood – “Paradox Now”
3:15 – 4:15 Session 9
Tucker Viemeister and David Quan – “are industrial designers Addicted to Plastic?”
moderated by Ian Connacher
4:15 – 4:45 Session 10
Dr. Dayna Baumeister – “BEYOND HEAT, BEAT AND TREAT: BioMIMICRY in design”
4:45 – 6:00 cocktails
Trade Registration for A World Without Oil
General Registration for A World Without Oil
Academy of Design/RCC Institute of Technology
Insight 3rd Year Grad Exhibit
Location: Allen Lambert Galleria at Brookfield Place
181 Bay Street
Toronto, ON
Time: Jan 21 – 25
Event Description: Graduating interior design students present the culmination of their design thesis projects
Art Gallery of Ontario
Boots, Bustles and Bustiers:
Fashion Through the Ages in the AGO’s collection
Location:
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Tours meet in Walker Court.
Website: www.ago.net
Times: Daily tours from Jan 20 – 24 at 12 and 3 pm
Event Description: Explore the collection from bottom to top and discover beauty, power, status, class and sexuality in fashions from the 16C to now. From the extravagant wigs in the Thomson European collection, to the sumptuous silks of the Dutch 17C and the mini -skirts of the liberated sixties what can we tell about the place, time and ideals of beauty from these costumes?
Design Exchange
2009 Design Exchange Awards
Location: Exhibit Hall
234 Bay St
Toronto, ON M5J
Website: www.dx.org
Times: January 13 – March 7, 2010
Event Description: The Design Exchange Awards, presented by Canadian Business, promotes Canadian design excellence and recognizes the critical role of design in all types of organizations including commercial entities (large and small), not-for-profit organizations, and the public sector. The Awards celebrate the success stories achieved through close partnerships between clients and designers. The DXAs are Canada’s only award program to judge design by results, balancing function, aesthetics, and economic success.
Designers in the Classroom
Location: Design Exchange CDC and Teknion Lounge
234 Bay St
Toronto, ON M5J
Website: www.dx.org
Times: Jan 13 – Mar 7
Event Description: Launched in the fall of 2003, Designers in the Classroom brings professional designers into elementary and secondary school classrooms to develop design projects with students that enrich curriculum and broaden the roles of designers in their communities. This year’s line up includes designers Hilary Dennis, Victoria DeCesare, Richard Carmichael, and Dyan Parro. The Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Dominion Bank generously support this program.
Gardiner Museum
Cut/Copy/Paste: The Fine Tradition of Copying in Canadian Ceramics
Location: Gardiner Museum Lobby
111 Queen’s Park,
Toronto, ON M5S 2C7
Website: www.gardinermuseum.on.ca
Times: Jan 8 – Feb 5
Event Description: Cut, Copy, Paste: The Fine Tradition of Copying in Canadian Ceramics. Ceramic artists have borrowed forms and designs from each other and from other media for thousands of years. This mini-exhibition reveals how Canadian ceramic art has been expanded and enriched over the past century by the appropriation of formal and design elements from sources as diverse as Ukranian textiles and First Nations ceremonial art. The exhibition has been organized by the Toronto design firm Motherbrand in conjunction with the Gardiner Museum. Motherbrand is also sponsoring a lecture at the Gardiner Museum on January 24th by Cynthia Hathaway, a Canadian artist who often uses the strategies of copying and sampling in her work. The exhibition and lecture are both associated with the Toronto International Design Festival, which will take place from January 21 to 24, 2010.
George Brown College
The Furniture of Eero Saarinen:
Designs for Every Living — Starts Today
Location: Dominion Modern Gallery @ the School of Design
230 Richmond Street East (Side Entrance)
Website: www.dominionmodern.ca/saarinen/
Times: Jan 21 – 24, 2010
Event Description: The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Every Living, the first exhibition devoted solely to the furniture of Eero Saarinen, will open at the Dominion Modern Gallery @ the School of Design, George Brown College, January 20, 2010.
The exhibition is presented in partnership with Knoll Studio.
The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Every Living examines the range of furniture designs from one of the most important and influential architects of the 20th Century. This is the first survey of his Saarinen’s body of work from the 1930’s to the 1960’s, seen in context of post-war modernism. Saarinen’s furniture designs, many created in collaboration with Florence Knoll, such as the Tulip Collection and Womb Chair have become classics, still produced today by Knoll Studio. Many are in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The exhibition includes archival pieces from the Knoll Museum in East Greenville, PA and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hill, MI as well as current production pieces by Knoll. The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Every Living debuted at MODA, the Museum of Design, Atlanta and is travelling around the world.
Exhibit runs regularly from January 25 – February 20, 2010
Mon-Fri: 10-7pm
Saturday: 10-5pm
(Free Admission)
Gladstone Hotel
Come Up to My Room
The Gladstone Hotel’s Alternative Design Event
Location:
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1J6
Website: comeuptomyroom.com
Times: Jan 21, press preview 4pm-8pm, Jan 22 12pm-8pm, Jan 23 12pm-10pm, Jan 24 12pm-5pm Love Design Party Jan 23 10pm-2am
Event Description: Get rowdy at Come Up to My Room’s annual launch party! The Gladstone Hotel’s COME UP TO MY ROOM is Toronto’s largest annual alternative design event. CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting design shows in Toronto. The four-day event is in its seventh year at the Gladstone Hotel, featuring 11 room and 14 public space installations.
Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
Body + Object
Location:
990 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1H1
Website: www.craft.on.ca
Times: Jan 5 – 31, Opening Night Reception Jan 20, 8:30 – 5:30
Event Description: The body is perhaps today’s most ubiquitous cultural object, especially in its use to announce identity through the ever-changing landscape of apparel. Craft finds its place in this process of disclosure with work designed to adorn, protect, and even introspectively examine the body. Body + Object offers work (ad)dressing the real as well as thematic presence of the body,where traditional craft media appear in new forms and use style as a means to investigation.
OCAD
Fashion Forward: Toronto (ad)dresses the futures
Location: OCAD Professional Gallery
100 McCaul Street. (level 2)
Website: www.ocad.ca/progallery
Times: Oct 21-Jan 24 Wed-Fri, 11-7; Sat-Sun noon-6. Closed Mon, Tues & holidays.
Event Description: Fashion Forward starts with Toronto couture, featuring elegant stalwarts alongside more radical designers. From there, it goes on to explore how this community’s trademark inventiveness inspires new forms of social responsiveness by highlighting sustainability, wearable tech and special needs. In conjunction with this exhibit, OCAD president Sara Diamond will chair a panel discussion about wearable technology on Tuesday January 19 at 6:30. Produced in association with the Fashion Design Council of Canada.
Paul Petro Special Projects Space
Heavy Metal: Cast New Objects
Location: Paul Petro Special Projects Space
962 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
Website: www.heavymetaldesign.tumblr.com
Time: Jan 20 11am – 7pm, Jan 21-22 10am-10pm, Jan 23 10am-11pm, Jan 24 10am-7pm.
Event Description: Local designers team up to explore the formal properties of cast metal in design. The result is nine new cast objects that include conceptual explorations, domestic products, and furniture. Works by Joy Charbonneau, Chromoly, Dieter Janssen, Luflic, Mat Cult, Derek McLeod, Crawford Noble, Rob Southcott, and Ed Zec.Exhibition organized by Joy Charbonneau.
Sponsored by : architectsAlliance, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Radiant Dark 2010 /Assets & Values presented by MADE Design
Location: Commerce Court, ground floor lobby
199 Bay St (SE corner of King and Bay), Toronto, ON
Website: www.madedesign.ca
Times: Jan 20, 7-10pm, Jan 21-23, 11am-7pm, Jan 24 11am-6pm
Event Description : Since its inception in 2008 Radiant Dark has grown into a popular series, becoming a recognized, independent forum for the introduction of quality new works. The 2010 theme of Assets & Values brings together 32 independent design studios reckoning with material, moral, ideological and aesthetic mores in their design of everyday objects. The current economic obsession demands an authentic and individual assessment of what constitutes real worth or value.
Royal Ontario Museum
Cut/Copy/Paste: Creative Reuse in Canadian Design
Location: Institute for Contemporary Culture
Royal Ontario Museum,
100 Queen’s Park, Toronto ON
Website: www.rom.on.ca/icc/ or www.motherbrand.com
Times: Jan 20 – 31
Event Description: Creative agency Motherbrand explores the idea of reuse, recycling and upscaling in Canadian design. Reaching back to indigenous design and the improvised solutions of early pioneers, to more recent work from Tobias Wong, Douglas Coupland and more, this form of pragmatic redesign is behind some of Canada’s most iconic designs. Come to the majestic ICC space in the ROM crystal to see highlights of more than 100 years of this creative process at work.
TERREFORM 1
HOMEWAY: The Great Suburban Exodus
Location: TBA
Website: www.terreform.org/projects_habitat_homeway.html
Time: Jan 7 to Feb 20, 2010. Opening Thursday January 7 6-8 pm
Event Description: How can our cities extend into the suburbs sustainability? We propose to put our future American dwellings on wheels. These retrofitted houses will flock towards downtown city cores and back. We intended to reinforce our existing highways between cities with an intelligent renewable infrastructure. Therefore our homes will be enabled to flow continuously from urban core to core.
Our proposal envisions an immense and vital solution to a fundamental problem: American suburbs fail to work efficiently. In the next 25 years we will build 56 million new homes that will consume 18.8 million acres of virgin land and emit 7.3 billion tons of CO2 per year. These frameworks of development need to be rethought to meet our ecological carrying capacities. Why should we put further energy into past inferior patterns? America needs to deliver dwellings closer to our existing main infrastructural arteries. We cannot continue to overextend our thinly disturbed resource lines.
America has always been a nation on the road. We desire to move the suburbs on smart networked wheels. We intend to affix a diverse range of mobility mechanisms to home units that generate our novel HOMEWAY system. In the future, the physical home will remain permanent but its location will be transient. Our static suburbs will be transformed into a dynamic and deployable flow. Houses will have the option to switch from parked to low speed. Homes, big box retail, movie theaters, supermarkets, business hubs, food production, and power plants will depart from their existing sprawled communities and line up along highways to create a truly breathing interconnected metabolic urbanism. Dense ribbons of food, energy, waste and water elements will follow the direction of moving population clusters.
Credits: Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel, Philip Weller, Ian Slover, Landon Young, Cecil Howell, Andrea Michalski, Sofie Bamberg, Alex Colard, Zachary Aders.
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Event Listing January 22
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Interior Design Show
Location: New! Metro Toronto Convention Centre
255 Front Street West
Toronto, ON
Website: www.interiordesignshow.com
Times: Opening Night Jan 21 7pm-10pm, Jan 22 9am-7pm, Jan 23 10am-7pm, Jan 24 10am-6pm
Event Description: If you are an interior designer, architect, decorator, builder or another member of the design industry, don’t miss IDS 10 Trade Day. This year the Azure Trade Talks speakers are Joshua-Prince-Ramus, Nipa Doshi, Jamie Hayon and a new Pecha Kucha on the theme of “Good Ideas”. Register now to attend IDS 10 Trade Day (https://www.microspec.com/reg/ids2010/). Since our inception in 1998, over 500,000 design professionals, consumers and media have attended. The newest and most innovative in international and Canadian products are annually presented by 300 exhibitors. Inspirational exhibits feature both emerging and established designers; and highlight international interior design, architecture and industrial design trends. The most influential architects and designers from around the world share their design philosophies and experiences within the international keynote speakers program.
Academy of Design/RCC Institute of Technology
Insight 3rd Year Grad Exhibit
Location: Allen Lambert Galleria at Brookfield Place
181 Bay Street
Toronto, ON
Time: Jan 21 – 25
Event Description: Graduating interior design students present the culmination of their design thesis projects
A Celebration Of Weavers’ Art ERA Rug Designs
Location: Modern Weave
160 King Street East
Toronto, ON M5A 1J3, Canada
(416) 365-0335
Website: http://www.modernweave.com/
Times: Jan 22 7pm-9pm
Event Description: An exhibition of limited edition gyclées of the 2010 winning rug designs will be for sale during the reception with proceeds to be donated to DAREarts and RugMark foundations.
Art Gallery of Ontario
Boots, Bustles and Bustiers:
Fashion Through the Ages in the AGO’s collection
Location:
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Tours meet in Walker Court.
Website: www.ago.net
Times: Daily tours from Jan 20 – 24 at 12 and 3 pm
Event Description: Explore the collection from bottom to top and discover beauty, power, status, class and sexuality in fashions from the 16C to now. From the extravagant wigs in the Thomson European collection, to the sumptuous silks of the Dutch 17C and the mini -skirts of the liberated sixties what can we tell about the place, time and ideals of beauty from these costumes?
Design Exchange
2009 Design Exchange Awards
Location: Exhibit Hall
234 Bay St
Toronto, ON M5J
Website: www.dx.org
Times: January 13 – March 7, 2010
Event Description: The Design Exchange Awards, presented by Canadian Business, promotes Canadian design excellence and recognizes the critical role of design in all types of organizations including commercial entities (large and small), not-for-profit organizations, and the public sector. The Awards celebrate the success stories achieved through close partnerships between clients and designers. The DXAs are Canada’s only award program to judge design by results, balancing function, aesthetics, and economic success.
Designers in the Classroom
Location: Design Exchange
CDC and Teknion Lounge
234 Bay St
Toronto, ON M5J
Website: www.dx.org
Times: Jan 13 – Mar 7
Event Description: Launched in the fall of 2003, Designers in the Classroom brings professional designers into elementary and secondary school classrooms to develop design projects with students that enrich curriculum and broaden the roles of designers in their communities. This year’s line up includes designers Hilary Dennis, Victoria DeCesare, Richard Carmichael, and Dyan Parro. The Ontario Arts Council and the TorontoDominion Bank generously support this program.
Gardiner Museum
Cut/Copy/Paste: The Fine Tradition of Copying in Canadian Ceramics
Location: Gardiner Museum Lobby
111 Queen’s Park,
Toronto, ON M5S 2C7
Website: www.gardinermuseum.on.ca
Times: Jan 8 – Feb 5
Event Description: Cut, Copy, Paste: The Fine Tradition of Copying in Canadian Ceramics. Ceramic artists have borrowed forms and designs from each other and from other media for thousands of years. This mini-exhibition reveals how Canadian ceramic art has been expanded and enriched over the past century by the appropriation of formal and design elements from sources as diverse as Ukranian textiles and First Nations ceremonial art. The exhibition has been organized by the Toronto design firm Motherbrand in conjunction with the Gardiner Museum. Motherbrand is also sponsoring a lecture at the Gardiner Museum on January 24th by Cynthia Hathaway, a Canadian artist who often uses the strategies of copying and sampling in her work. The exhibition and lecture are both associated with the Toronto International Design Festival, which will take place from January 21 to 24, 2010.
George Brown College
The Furniture of Eero Saarinen:
Designs for Every Living
Location:Dominion Modern Gallery @ the School of Design
230 Richmond Street East (Side Entrance)
Website: www.dominionmodern.ca/saarinen/
Times: Jan 21 – 24, 2010
Event Description: The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Every Living, the first exhibition devoted solely to the furniture of Eero Saarinen, will open at the Dominion Modern Gallery @ the School of Design, George Brown College, January 20, 2010.
The exhibition is presented in partnership with Knoll Studio.
The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Every Living examines the range of furniture designs from one of the most important and influential architects of the 20th Century. This is the first survey of his Saarinen’s body of work from the 1930’s to the 1960’s, seen in context of post-war modernism. Saarinen’s furniture designs, many created in collaboration with Florence Knoll, such as the Tulip Collection and Womb Chair have become classics, still produced today by Knoll Studio. Many are in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The exhibition includes archival pieces from the Knoll Museum in East Greenville, PA and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hill, MI as well as current production pieces by Knoll. The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Every Living debuted at MODA, the Museum of Design, Atlanta and is travelling around the world.
Exhibit runs regularly from January 25 – February 20, 2010
Mon-Fri: 10-7pm
Saturday: 10-5pm
(Free Admission)
Gladstone Hotel
Come Up to My Room
The Gladstone Hotel’s Alternative Design Event
Location:
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1J6
Website: comeuptomyroom.com
Times: Jan 21, press preview 4pm-8pm, Jan 22 12pm-8pm, Jan 23 12pm-10pm, Jan 24 12pm-5pm Love Design Party Jan 23 10pm-2am
Event Description: Get rowdy at Come Up to My Room’s annual launch party! The Gladstone Hotel’s COME UP TO MY ROOM is Toronto’s largest annual alternative design event. CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting design shows in Toronto. The four-day event is in its seventh year at the Gladstone Hotel, featuring 11 room and 14 public space installations.
Harbourfront Centre
It’s a Big Deal
Location:
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto, ON
Website: www.harbourfrontcentre.com
Times: Jan 22 – Apr 4
Event Description:Curated by Melanie Egan and Patrick Macaulay
This exhibition strives to communicate new ideas and shape perceptions about contemporary craft. It is about the opportunity to take risks, experiment; and investigate the potential of pushing a practice and seeing it in a fresh context. To venture and to gain! Micah Adams, Alisha Marie Boyd, Norah Deacon, Niko Dimitrijevic, Julie Laschuk, Margaret Lim, Shuyu Lu, Amanda McCavour, Adriana McNeely, Rose Angeli Ringor Johanna Schmidt and Patrycja Zwierzynska
LightForm, Metalarte and IDS present “Metalparte”
A party with Jaime Hayon
Location: Jonathan + Olivia
49 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, ON
Time: Jan 22, 9pm to Midnight
Mercer Union
50 Light Fixtures by Christian Giroux & Daniel Young
Location: Mercer Union: A Centre for Contemporary Art
1286 Bloor Street West
Toronto Ontario M6H 1N9
Website: www.mercerunion.org
Times: Jan 22 – Mar 3rd, 11am – 6pm, Tuesday – Saturday (Closed Sunday & Monday)
Event Description: 1650 Light fixtures.. is a study of the fixtures, and the quality of light, available to purchase from Home Depot. The film is simple, we install a light fixture in a room (10’x8’), same aspect ratio as full frame 35mm motion picture film, we turn on the camera, we turn on the fixture, wait 10 seconds, turn off the fixture, turn off the camera, and repeat. The film is projected at 1:1 scale as a loop, the effect is an illuminated room for 10 seconds, then 4 seconds of darkness, and then the room illuminated again from with a new fixture and repeats for 50 fixtures. We have been joking about this installation as our Anti-Olafur Elisasson project as it is about light, but has an unmistakably North-American object of study, it is a negative project, most of Elisasson’s are positive, and our project is about interior’s rather then the landscape.
A New Era
Meet the designers from IDS’s rug design competition and buy limited edition prints of their winning
Location: MODERN WEAVE
160 KING ST E
Time: Jan 22, 7pm-9pm
OCAD
Fashion Forward: Toronto (ad)dresses the futures
Location: OCAD Professional Gallery
100 McCaul Street. (level 2)
Website: www.ocad.ca/progallery
Times: Oct 21-Jan 24 Wed-Fri, 11-7; Sat-Sun noon-6. Closed Mon, Tues & holidays.
Event Description: Fashion Forward starts with Toronto couture, featuring elegant stalwarts alongside more radical designers. From there, it goes on to explore how this community’s trademark inventiveness inspires new forms of social responsiveness by highlighting sustainability, wearable tech and special needs. In conjunction with this exhibit, OCAD president Sara Diamond will chair a panel discussion about wearable technology on Tuesday January 19 at 6:30. Produced in association with the Fashion Design Council of Canada.
Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
Body + Object
Location:
990 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1H1
Website: www.craft.on.ca
Times: Jan 5 – 31, Opening Night Reception Jan 20, 8:30 – 5:30
Event Description: The body is perhaps today’s most ubiquitous cultural object, especially in its use to announce identity through the ever-changing landscape of apparel. Craft finds its place in this process of disclosure with work designed to adorn, protect, and even introspectively examine the body. Body + Object offers work (ad)dressing the real as well as thematic presence of the body,where traditional craft media appear in new forms and use style as a means to investigation.
Paul Petro Special Projects Space
Heavy Metal: Cast New Objects
Location: Paul Petro Special Projects Space
962 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
Website: www.heavymetaldesign.tumblr.com
Time: Jan 20 11am – 7pm, Jan 21-22 10am-10pm, Jan 23 10am-11pm, Jan 24 10am-7pm.
Event Description: Local designers team up to explore the formal properties of cast metal in design. The result is nine new cast objects that include conceptual explorations, domestic products, and furniture. Works by Joy Charbonneau, Chromoly, Dieter Janssen, Luflic, Mat Cult, Derek McLeod, Crawford Noble, Rob Southcott, and Ed Zec.Exhibition organized by Joy Charbonneau.
Sponsored by : architectsAlliance, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Radiant Dark 2010 /Assets & Values presented by MADE Design
Location: Commerce Court, ground floor lobby
199 Bay St (SE corner of King and Bay), Toronto, ON
Website: www.madedesign.ca
Times: Jan 20, 7-10pm, Jan 21-23, 11am-7pm, Jan 24 11am-6pm
Event Description : Since its inception in 2008 Radiant Dark has grown into a popular series, becoming a recognized, independent forum for the introduction of quality new works. The 2010 theme of Assets & Values brings together 32 independent design studios reckoning with material, moral, ideological and aesthetic mores in their design of everyday objects. The current economic obsession demands an authentic and individual assessment of what constitutes real worth or value.
Royal Ontario Museum
Cut/Copy/Paste: Creative Reuse in Canadian Design
Location: Institute for Contemporary Culture
Royal Ontario Museum,
100 Queen’s Park, Toronto ON
Website: www.rom.on.ca/icc/ or www.motherbrand.com
Times: Jan 20 – 31
Event Description: Creative agency Motherbrand explores the idea of reuse, recycling and upscaling in Canadian design. Reaching back to indigenous design and the improvised solutions of early pioneers, to more recent work from Tobias Wong, Douglas Coupland and more, this form of pragmatic redesign is behind some of Canada’s most iconic designs. Come to the majestic ICC space in the ROM crystal to see highlights of more than 100 years of this creative process at work.
TERREFORM 1
HOMEWAY: The Great Suburban Exodus
Location: TBA
Website: www.terreform.org/projects_habitat_homeway.html
Time: Jan 7 to Feb 20, 2010. Opening Thursday January 7 6-8 pm
Event Description: How can our cities extend into the suburbs sustainability? We propose to put our future American dwellings on wheels. These retrofitted houses will flock towards downtown city cores and back. We intended to reinforce our existing highways between cities with an intelligent renewable infrastructure. Therefore our homes will be enabled to flow continuously from urban core to core.
Our proposal envisions an immense and vital solution to a fundamental problem: American suburbs fail to work efficiently. In the next 25 years we will build 56 million new homes that will consume 18.8 million acres of virgin land and emit 7.3 billion tons of CO2 per year. These frameworks of development need to be rethought to meet our ecological carrying capacities. Why should we put further energy into past inferior patterns? America needs to deliver dwellings closer to our existing main infrastructural arteries. We cannot continue to overextend our thinly disturbed resource lines.
America has always been a nation on the road. We desire to move the suburbs on smart networked wheels. We intend to affix a diverse range of mobility mechanisms to home units that generate our novel HOMEWAY system. In the future, the physical home will remain permanent but its location will be transient. Our static suburbs will be transformed into a dynamic and deployable flow. Houses will have the option to switch from parked to low speed. Homes, big box retail, movie theaters, supermarkets, business hubs, food production, and power plants will depart from their existing sprawled communities and line up along highways to create a truly breathing interconnected metabolic urbanism. Dense ribbons of food, energy, waste and water elements will follow the direction of moving population clusters.
Credits: Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel, Philip Weller, Ian Slover, Landon Young, Cecil Howell, Andrea Michalski, Sofie Bamberg, Alex Colard, Zachary Aders.
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Event Listing January 23
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Interior Design Show
Location: New! Metro Toronto Convention Centre
255 Front Street West
Toronto, ON
Website: www.interiordesignshow.com
Times: Opening Night Jan 21 7pm-10pm, Jan 22 9am-7pm, Jan 23 10am-7pm, Jan 24 10am-6pm
Event Description: Join IDS 10 for our Saturday Design Talk speakers Ingrid Abramovitch, our panel on Luxury Design architect and interior designer Deedee Hannah, Taylor Hannah Architects; Guy and Michael Rubino (chefs and restaurateurs), Karsten Ruwoldt (AUDI Canada) and Taryn Doobay (RADO Switzerland), moderated by Karen von Hahn and Barbara Hulanicki. Since our inception in 1998, over 500,000 design professionals, consumers and media have attended. The newest and most innovative in international and Canadian products are annually presented by 300 exhibitors. Inspirational exhibits feature both emerging and established designers; and highlight international interior design, architecture and industrial design trends. The most influential architects and designers from around the world share their design philosophies and experiences within the international keynote speakers program.
Academy of Design/RCC Institute of Technology
Insight 3rd Year Grad Exhibit
Location: Allen Lambert Galleria at Brookfield Place
181 Bay Street
Toronto, ON
Time: Jan 21 – 25
Event Description: Graduating interior design students present the culmination of their design thesis projects
Art Gallery of Ontario
Boots, Bustles and Bustiers:
Fashion Through the Ages in the AGO’s collection
Location:
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Tours meet in Walker Court.
Website: www.ago.net
Times: Daily tours from Jan 20 – 24 at 12 and 3 pm
Event Description: Explore the collection from bottom to top and discover beauty, power, status, class and sexuality in fashions from the 16C to now. From the extravagant wigs in the Thomson European collection, to the sumptuous silks of the Dutch 17C and the mini -skirts of the liberated sixties what can we tell about the place, time and ideals of beauty from these costumes?
Design Exchange
2009 Design Exchange Awards
Location: Exhibit Hall
234 Bay St
Toronto, ON M5J
Website: www.dx.org
Times: January 13 – March 7, 2010
Event Description: The Design Exchange Awards, presented by Canadian Business, promotes Canadian design excellence and recognizes the critical role of design in all types of organizations including commercial entities (large and small), not-for-profit organizations, and the public sector. The Awards celebrate the success stories achieved through close partnerships between clients and designers. The DXAs are Canada’s only award program to judge design by results, balancing function, aesthetics, and economic success.
Designers in the Classroom
Location: Design Exchange CDC and Teknion Lounge
234 Bay St
Toronto, ON M5J
Website: www.dx.org
Times: Jan 13 – Mar 7
Event Description: Launched in the fall of 2003, Designers in the Classroom brings professional designers into elementary and secondary school classrooms to develop design projects with students that enrich curriculum and broaden the roles of designers in their communities. This year’s line up includes designers Hilary Dennis, Victoria DeCesare, Richard Carmichael, and Dyan Parro. The Ontario Arts Council and the TorontoDominion Bank generously support this program.
The Drake Hotel — Today Only
Behind the Design
Location:
1150 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON
Website: www.thedrakehotel.ca
Times: Jan 23, 1pm
Event Description: Enjoy a behind the scenes tour of the Drake Hotel with in-house curator Mia Nielsen. Take this opportunity to see the Drake’s public venues in a new light, and have a peak at some of the more private spaces. Nielsen will guide you through the unique design elements, from salvaged boards, to terrazzo flooring and contemporary art installations, that come together to make the Drake a destination for travelers and locals alike.
Gardiner Museum
Cut/Copy/Paste: The Fine Tradition of Copying in Canadian Ceramics
Location: Gardiner Museum Lobby
111 Queen’s Park,
Toronto, ON M5S 2C7
Website: www.gardinermuseum.on.ca
Times: Jan 8 – Feb 5
Event Description: Cut, Copy, Paste: The Fine Tradition of Copying in Canadian Ceramics. Ceramic artists have borrowed forms and designs from each other and from other media for thousands of years. This mini-exhibition reveals how Canadian ceramic art has been expanded and enriched over the past century by the appropriation of formal and design elements from sources as diverse as Ukranian textiles and First Nations ceremonial art. The exhibition has been organized by the Toronto design firm Motherbrand in conjunction with the Gardiner Museum. Motherbrand is also sponsoring a lecture at the Gardiner Museum on January 24th by Cynthia Hathaway, a Canadian artist who often uses the strategies of copying and sampling in her work. The exhibition and lecture are both associated with the Toronto International Design Festival, which will take place from January 21 to 24, 2010.
George Brown College
The Furniture of Eero Saarinen:
Designs for Every Living
Location: Dominion Modern Gallery @ the School of Design
230 Richmond Street East (Side Entrance)
Website: www.dominionmodern.ca/saarinen/
Times: Jan 21 – 24, 2010
Event Description: The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Every Living, the first exhibition devoted solely to the furniture of Eero Saarinen, will open at the Dominion Modern Gallery @ the School of Design, George Brown College, January 20, 2010.
The exhibition is presented in partnership with Knoll Studio.
The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Every Living examines the range of furniture designs from one of the most important and influential architects of the 20th Century. This is the first survey of his Saarinen’s body of work from the 1930’s to the 1960’s, seen in context of post-war modernism. Saarinen’s furniture designs, many created in collaboration with Florence Knoll, such as the Tulip Collection and Womb Chair have become classics, still produced today by Knoll Studio. Many are in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The exhibition includes archival pieces from the Knoll Museum in East Greenville, PA and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hill, MI as well as current production pieces by Knoll. The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Every Living debuted at MODA, the Museum of Design, Atlanta and is travelling around the world.
Exhibit runs regularly from January 25 – February 20, 2010
Mon-Fri: 10-7pm
Saturday: 10-5pm
(Free Admission)
Gladstone Hotel
Come Up to My Room
The Gladstone Hotel’s Alternative Design Event
Location:
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1J6
Website: comeuptomyroom.com
Times: Jan 21, press preview 4pm-8pm, Jan 22 12pm-8pm, Jan 23 12pm-10pm, Jan 24 12pm-5pm Love Design Party Jan 23 10pm-2am
Event Description: Get rowdy at Come Up to My Room’s annual launch party! The Gladstone Hotel’s COME UP TO MY ROOM is Toronto’s largest annual alternative design event. CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting design shows in Toronto. The four-day event is in its seventh year at the Gladstone Hotel, featuring 11 room and 14 public space installations.
Harbourfront Centre
Innovators + Ideas Lectures — Today Only
Website: www.harbourfrontcentre.com
Location: Brigantine Room
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto, ON
Time: Jan 23, 1pm-4pm
Event Description: TOBIAS WONG AND CYNTHIA HATHAWAY
The Craft Department at Harbourfront Centre offers lectures addressing current ideas relevant to contemporary craft + design practice. Co-presented by Motherbrand motherbrand.com Admission $10 reg and $7 for students/seniors.
It’s a Big Deal
Location: Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto, ON
Website: www.harbourfrontcentre.com
Times: Jan 22 – Apr 4
Event Description:Curated by Melanie Egan and Patrick Macaulay. This exhibition strives to communicate new ideas and shape perceptions about contemporary craft. It is about the opportunity to take risks, experiment; and investigate the potential of pushing a practice and seeing it in a fresh context. To venture and to gain! Micah Adams, Alisha Marie Boyd, Norah Deacon, Niko Dimitrijevic, Julie Laschuk, Margaret Lim, Shuyu Lu, Amanda McCavour, Adriana McNeely, Rose Angeli Ringor Johanna Schmidt and Patrycja Zwierzynska
Kiondo
Design Festival Party at 323
Location: Kiondo African Imports,
323 Queen Street East,
Toronto, M5A 1S9
Website: http://www.kiondo.com/
Times: Saturday, January 23rd from 7pm to 9pm
Mercer Union
50 Light Fixtures by Christian Giroux & Daniel Young
Location: Mercer Union: A Centre for Contemporary Art
1286 Bloor Street West
Toronto Ontario M6H 1N9
Website: www.mercerunion.org
Times: Jan 22 – Mar 3rd, 11am – 6pm, Tuesday – Saturday (Closed Sunday & Monday)
Event Description: 1650 Light fixtures.. is a study of the fixtures, and the quality of light, available to purchase from Home Depot. The film is simple, we install a light fixture in a room (10’x8’), same aspect ratio as full frame 35mm motion picture film, we turn on the camera, we turn on the fixture, wait 10 seconds, turn off the fixture, turn off the camera, and repeat. The film is projected at 1:1 scale as a loop, the effect is an illuminated room for 10 seconds, then 4 seconds of darkness, and then the room illuminated again from with a new fixture and repeats for 50 fixtures. We have been joking about this installation as our Anti-Olafur Elisasson project as it is about light, but has an unmistakably North-American object of study, it is a negative project, most of Elisasson’s are positive, and our project is about interior’s rather then the landscape.
OCAD
Fashion Forward: Toronto (ad)dresses the futures
Location: OCAD Professional Gallery,
100 McCaul Street. (level 2)
Website: www.ocad.ca/progallery
Times: Oct 21-Jan 24 Wed-Fri, 11-7; Sat-Sun noon-6. Closed Mon, Tues & holidays.
Event Description: Fashion Forward starts with Toronto couture, featuring elegant stalwarts alongside more radical designers. From there, it goes on to explore how this community’s trademark inventiveness inspires new forms of social responsiveness by highlighting sustainability, wearable tech and special needs. In conjunction with this exhibit, OCAD president Sara Diamond will chair a panel discussion about wearable technology on Tuesday January 19 at 6:30. Produced in association with the Fashion Design Council of Canada.
Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
Body + Object
Location:
990 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1H1
Website: www.craft.on.ca
Times: Jan 5 – 31, Opening Night Reception Jan 20, 8:30 – 5:30
Event Description: The body is perhaps today’s most ubiquitous cultural object, especially in its use to announce identity through the ever-changing landscape of apparel. Craft finds its place in this process of disclosure with work designed to adorn, protect, and even introspectively examine the body. Body + Object offers work (ad)dressing the real as well as thematic presence of the body,where traditional craft media appear in new forms and use style as a means to investigation.
Paul Petro Special Projects Space
Heavy Metal: Cast New Objects
Location: Paul Petro Special Projects Space
962 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
Website: www.heavymetaldesign.tumblr.com
Time: Jan 20 11am – 7pm, Jan 21-22 10am-10pm, Jan 23 10am-11pm, Jan 24 10am-7pm.
Event Description: Local designers team up to explore the formal properties of cast metal in design. The result is nine new cast objects that include conceptual explorations, domestic products, and furniture. Works by Joy Charbonneau, Chromoly, Dieter Janssen, Luflic, Mat Cult, Derek McLeod, Crawford Noble, Rob Southcott, and Ed Zec.Exhibition organized by Joy Charbonneau.
Sponsored by : architectsAlliance, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Radiant Dark 2010 /Assets & Values presented by MADE Design
Location: Commerce Court, ground floor lobby
199 Bay St (SE corner of King and Bay), Toronto, ON
Website: www.madedesign.ca
Times: Jan 20, 7-10pm, Jan 21-23, 11am-7pm, Jan 24 11am-6pm
Event Description : Since its inception in 2008 Radiant Dark has grown into a popular series, becoming a recognized, independent forum for the introduction of quality new works. The 2010 theme of Assets & Values brings together 32 independent design studios reckoning with material, moral, ideological and aesthetic mores in their design of everyday objects. The current economic obsession demands an authentic and individual assessment of what constitutes real worth or value.
Royal Ontario Museum
Cut/Copy/Paste: Creative Reuse in Canadian Design
Location: Institute for Contemporary Culture
Royal Ontario Museum,
100 Queen’s Park, Toronto ON
Website: www.rom.on.ca/icc/ or www.motherbrand.com
Times: Jan 20 – 31
Event Description: Creative agency Motherbrand explores the idea of reuse, recycling and upscaling in Canadian design. Reaching back to indigenous design and the improvised solutions of early pioneers, to more recent work from Tobias Wong, Douglas Coupland and more, this form of pragmatic redesign is behind some of Canada’s most iconic designs. Come to the majestic ICC space in the ROM crystal to see highlights of more than 100 years of this creative process at work.
TERREFORM 1
HOMEWAY: The Great Suburban Exodus
Location: TBA
Website: www.terreform.org/projects_habitat_homeway.html
Time: Jan 7 to Feb 20, 2010. Opening Thursday January 7 6-8 pm
Event Description: How can our cities extend into the suburbs sustainability? We propose to put our future American dwellings on wheels. These retrofitted houses will flock towards downtown city cores and back. We intended to reinforce our existing highways between cities with an intelligent renewable infrastructure. Therefore our homes will be enabled to flow continuously from urban core to core.
Our proposal envisions an immense and vital solution to a fundamental problem: American suburbs fail to work efficiently. In the next 25 years we will build 56 million new homes that will consume 18.8 million acres of virgin land and emit 7.3 billion tons of CO2 per year. These frameworks of development need to be rethought to meet our ecological carrying capacities. Why should we put further energy into past inferior patterns? America needs to deliver dwellings closer to our existing main infrastructural arteries. We cannot continue to overextend our thinly disturbed resource lines.
America has always been a nation on the road. We desire to move the suburbs on smart networked wheels. We intend to affix a diverse range of mobility mechanisms to home units that generate our novel HOMEWAY system. In the future, the physical home will remain permanent but its location will be transient. Our static suburbs will be transformed into a dynamic and deployable flow. Houses will have the option to switch from parked to low speed. Homes, big box retail, movie theaters, supermarkets, business hubs, food production, and power plants will depart from their existing sprawled communities and line up along highways to create a truly breathing interconnected metabolic urbanism. Dense ribbons of food, energy, waste and water elements will follow the direction of moving population clusters.
Credits: Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel, Philip Weller, Ian Slover, Landon Young, Cecil Howell, Andrea Michalski, Sofie Bamberg, Alex Colard, Zachary Aders.
WORKshop — Today Only
Location: WORKshop
Concourse Level
80 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON
Website: workshoptoronto.com
Time: Jan 23, 2010, 5pm to 8pm
Event Description: WORKshop is an experimental design center engaged in furthering the visionary work of Hong Kong-based Kin Yeung. WORKshop is dedicated to establishing reciprocity between design traditions spawned in China and contemporary life in the East and the West. WORKshop’s inaugural exhibition will feature furniture, art, and objects for the home by Blanc de Chine (Hong Kong), Brent Cordner (Toronto), EXH (Shanghai), Andrew Jones (Toronto), Elena Manferdini (Los Angeles), Neri & Hu (Shanghai), and Katherine Keijo Xiao (Beijing and Washington, D.C.). As well, WORKshop-sponsored projects by architecture students Omri Menashe and Peter Sherratt will be presented.
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Event Listing January 24
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Interior Design Show
Location: New! Metro Toronto Convention Centre
255 Front Street West
Toronto, ON
Website: www.interiordesignshow.com
Times: Opening Night Jan 21 7pm-10pm, Jan 22 9am-7pm, Jan 23 10am-7pm, Jan 24 10am-6pm
Event Description: It is House & Home Day at IDS with Design Talk Speakers Suzanne Dima, Brian Gluckstein, & Mark Challen. Find out about the latest trends, how to add a little Hollywood style to your home, and what enduring design. Since our inception in 1998, over 500,000 design professionals, consumers and media have attended. The newest and most innovative in international and Canadian products are annually presented by 300 exhibitors. Inspirational exhibits feature both emerging and established designers; and highlight international interior design, architecture and industrial design trends. The most influential architects and designers from around the world share their design philosophies and experiences within the international keynote speakers program.
Academy of Design/RCC Institute of Technology
Insight 3rd Year Grad Exhibit
Location: Allen Lambert Galleria at Brookfield Place
181 Bay Street
Toronto, ON
Time: Jan 21 – 25
Event Description: Graduating interior design students present the culmination of their design thesis projects
Art Gallery of Ontario
Boots, Bustles and Bustiers:
Fashion Through the Ages in the AGO’s collection
Location:
317 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Tours meet in Walker Court.
Website: www.ago.net
Times: Daily tours from Jan 20 – 24 at 12 and 3 pm
Event Description: Explore the collection from bottom to top and discover beauty, power, status, class and sexuality in fashions from the 16C to now. From the extravagant wigs in the Thomson European collection, to the sumptuous silks of the Dutch 17C and the mini -skirts of the liberated sixties what can we tell about the place, time and ideals of beauty from these costumes?
Design Exchange
2009 Design Exchange Awards
Location: Exhibit Hall
234 Bay St
Toronto, ON M5J
Website: www.dx.org
Times: January 13 – March 7, 2010
Event Description: The Design Exchange Awards, presented by Canadian Business, promotes Canadian design excellence and recognizes the critical role of design in all types of organizations including commercial entities (large and small), not-for-profit organizations, and the public sector. The Awards celebrate the success stories achieved through close partnerships between clients and designers. The DXAs are Canada’s only award program to judge design by results, balancing function, aesthetics, and economic success.
Designers in the Classroom
Location: Design Exchange CDC and Teknion Lounge
234 Bay St
Toronto, ON M5J
Website: www.dx.org
Times: Jan 13 – Mar 7
Event Description: Launched in the fall of 2003, Designers in the Classroom brings professional designers into elementary and secondary school classrooms to develop design projects with students that enrich curriculum and broaden the roles of designers in their communities. This year’s line up includes designers Hilary Dennis, Victoria DeCesare, Richard Carmichael, and Dyan Parro. The Ontario Arts Council and the TorontoDominion Bank generously support this program.
Gardiner Museum
Cut/Copy/Paste: The Fine Tradition of Copying in Canadian Ceramics
Location: Gardiner Museum Lobby
111 Queen’s Park,
Toronto, ON M5S 2C7
Website: www.gardinermuseum.on.ca
Times: Jan 8 – Feb 5
Event Description: Today Only. Motherbrand is also sponsoring a lecture at the Gardiner Museum on January 24th by Cynthia Hathaway, a Canadian artist who often uses the strategies of copying and sampling in her work. She will present an example of how design has resurrected ceramics in Holland.
Cut, Copy, Paste: The Fine Tradition of Copying in Canadian Ceramics. Ceramic artists have borrowed forms and designs from each other and from other media for thousands of years. This mini-exhibition reveals how Canadian ceramic art has been expanded and enriched over the past century by the appropriation of formal and design elements from sources as diverse as Ukranian textiles and First Nations ceremonial art. The exhibition has been organized by the Toronto design firm Motherbrand in conjunction with the Gardiner Museum.
George Brown College
The Furniture of Eero Saarinen:
Designs for Every Living
Location: Dominion Modern Gallery @ the School of Design
230 Richmond Street East (Side Entrance)
Website: www.dominionmodern.ca/saarinen/
Times: Jan 21 – 24, 2010
Event Description: The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Every Living, the first exhibition devoted solely to the furniture of Eero Saarinen, will open at the Dominion Modern Gallery @ the School of Design, George Brown College, January 20, 2010.
The exhibition is presented in partnership with Knoll Studio.
The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Every Living examines the range of furniture designs from one of the most important and influential architects of the 20th Century. This is the first survey of his Saarinen’s body of work from the 1930’s to the 1960’s, seen in context of post-war modernism. Saarinen’s furniture designs, many created in collaboration with Florence Knoll, such as the Tulip Collection and Womb Chair have become classics, still produced today by Knoll Studio. Many are in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The exhibition includes archival pieces from the Knoll Museum in East Greenville, PA and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hill, MI as well as current production pieces by Knoll. The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Every Living debuted at MODA, the Museum of Design, Atlanta and is travelling around the world.
Exhibit runs regularly from January 25 – February 20, 2010
Mon-Fri: 10-7pm
Saturday: 10-5pm
(Free Admission)
Gladstone Hotel
Come Up to My Room
The Gladstone Hotel’s Alternative Design Event
Location:
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1J6
Website: comeuptomyroom.com
Times: Jan 21, press preview 4pm-8pm, Jan 22 12pm-8pm, Jan 23 12pm-10pm, Jan 24 12pm-5pm Love Design Party Jan 23 10pm-2am
Event Description: Get rowdy at Come Up to My Room’s annual launch party! The Gladstone Hotel’s COME UP TO MY ROOM is Toronto’s largest annual alternative design event. CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting design shows in Toronto. The four-day event is in its seventh year at the Gladstone Hotel, featuring 11 room and 14 public space installations.
Harbourfront Centre
It’s a Big Deal
Location:
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto, ON
Website: www.harbourfrontcentre.com
Times: Jan 22 – Apr 4
Event Description:Curated by Melanie Egan and Patrick Macaulay
This exhibition strives to communicate new ideas and shape perceptions about contemporary craft. It is about the opportunity to take risks, experiment; and investigate the potential of pushing a practice and seeing it in a fresh context. To venture and to gain! Micah Adams, Alisha Marie Boyd, Norah Deacon, Niko Dimitrijevic, Julie Laschuk, Margaret Lim, Shuyu Lu, Amanda McCavour, Adriana McNeely, Rose Angeli Ringor Johanna Schmidt and Patrycja Zwierzynska
Mercer Union
50 Light Fixtures by Christian Giroux & Daniel Young
Location: Mercer Union: A Centre for Contemporary Art
1286 Bloor Street West
Toronto Ontario M6H 1N9
Website: www.mercerunion.org
Times: Jan 22 – Mar 3rd, 11am – 6pm, Tuesday – Saturday (Closed Sunday & Monday)
Event Description: 1650 Light fixtures.. is a study of the fixtures, and the quality of light, available to purchase from Home Depot. The film is simple, we install a light fixture in a room (10’x8’), same aspect ratio as full frame 35mm motion picture film, we turn on the camera, we turn on the fixture, wait 10 seconds, turn off the fixture, turn off the camera, and repeat. The film is projected at 1:1 scale as a loop, the effect is an illuminated room for 10 seconds, then 4 seconds of darkness, and then the room illuminated again from with a new fixture and repeats for 50 fixtures. We have been joking about this installation as our Anti-Olafur Elisasson project as it is about light, but has an unmistakably North-American object of study, it is a negative project, most of Elisasson’s are positive, and our project is about interior’s rather then the landscape.
OCAD
Fashion Forward: Toronto (ad)dresses the futures
Location: OCAD Professional Gallery,
100 McCaul Street. (level 2)
Website: www.ocad.ca/progallery
Times: Oct 21-Jan 24 Wed-Fri, 11-7; Sat-Sun noon-6. Closed Mon, Tues & holidays.
Event Description: Fashion Forward starts with Toronto couture, featuring elegant stalwarts alongside more radical designers. From there, it goes on to explore how this community’s trademark inventiveness inspires new forms of social responsiveness by highlighting sustainability, wearable tech and special needs. In conjunction with this exhibit, OCAD president Sara Diamond will chair a panel discussion about wearable technology on Tuesday January 19 at 6:30. Produced in association with the Fashion Design Council of Canada.
Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
Body + Object
Location:
990 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1H1
Website: www.craft.on.ca
Times: Jan 5 – 31, Opening Night Reception Jan 20, 8:30 – 5:30
Event Description: The body is perhaps today’s most ubiquitous cultural object, especially in its use to announce identity through the ever-changing landscape of apparel. Craft finds its place in this process of disclosure with work designed to adorn, protect, and even introspectively examine the body. Body + Object offers work (ad)dressing the real as well as thematic presence of the body,where traditional craft media appear in new forms and use style as a means to investigation.
Paul Petro Special Projects Space
Heavy Metal: Cast New Objects
Location: Paul Petro Special Projects Space
962 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
Website: www.heavymetaldesign.tumblr.com
Time: Jan 20 11am – 7pm, Jan 21-22 10am-10pm, Jan 23 10am-11pm, Jan 24 10am-7pm.
Event Description: Local designers team up to explore the formal properties of cast metal in design. The result is nine new cast objects that include conceptual explorations, domestic products, and furniture. Works by Joy Charbonneau, Chromoly, Dieter Janssen, Luflic, Mat Cult, Derek McLeod, Crawford Noble, Rob Southcott, and Ed Zec.Exhibition organized by Joy Charbonneau.
Sponsored by : architectsAlliance, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Radiant Dark 2010 /Assets & Values presented by MADE Design
Location: Commerce Court, ground floor lobby
199 Bay St (SE corner of King and Bay), Toronto, ON
Website: www.madedesign.ca
Times: Jan 20, 7-10pm, Jan 21-23, 11am-7pm, Jan 24 11am-6pm
Event Description : Since its inception in 2008 Radiant Dark has grown into a popular series, becoming a recognized, independent forum for the introduction of quality new works. The 2010 theme of Assets & Values brings together 32 independent design studios reckoning with material, moral, ideological and aesthetic mores in their design of everyday objects. The current economic obsession demands an authentic and individual assessment of what constitutes real worth or value.
Royal Ontario Museum
Cut/Copy/Paste: Creative Reuse in Canadian Design
Location: Institute for Contemporary Culture
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen’s Park, Toronto ON
Website: www.rom.on.ca/icc/ or www.motherbrand.com
Times: Jan 20 – 31
Event Description: Creative agency Motherbrand explores the idea of reuse, recycling and upscaling in Canadian design. Reaching back to indigenous design and the improvised solutions of early pioneers, to more recent work from Tobias Wong, Douglas Coupland and more, this form of pragmatic redesign is behind some of Canada’s most iconic designs. Come to the majestic ICC space in the ROM crystal to see highlights of more than 100 years of this creative process at work.
TERREFORM 1
HOMEWAY: The Great Suburban Exodus
Location: TBA
Website: www.terreform.org/projects_habitat_homeway.html
Time: Jan 7 to Feb 20, 2010. Opening Thursday January 7 6-8 pm
Event Description: How can our cities extend into the suburbs sustainability? We propose to put our future American dwellings on wheels. These retrofitted houses will flock towards downtown city cores and back. We intended to reinforce our existing highways between cities with an intelligent renewable infrastructure. Therefore our homes will be enabled to flow continuously from urban core to core.
Our proposal envisions an immense and vital solution to a fundamental problem: American suburbs fail to work efficiently. In the next 25 years we will build 56 million new homes that will consume 18.8 million acres of virgin land and emit 7.3 billion tons of CO2 per year. These frameworks of development need to be rethought to meet our ecological carrying capacities. Why should we put further energy into past inferior patterns? America needs to deliver dwellings closer to our existing main infrastructural arteries. We cannot continue to overextend our thinly disturbed resource lines.
America has always been a nation on the road. We desire to move the suburbs on smart networked wheels. We intend to affix a diverse range of mobility mechanisms to home units that generate our novel HOMEWAY system. In the future, the physical home will remain permanent but its location will be transient. Our static suburbs will be transformed into a dynamic and deployable flow. Houses will have the option to switch from parked to low speed. Homes, big box retail, movie theaters, supermarkets, business hubs, food production, and power plants will depart from their existing sprawled communities and line up along highways to create a truly breathing interconnected metabolic urbanism. Dense ribbons of food, energy, waste and water elements will follow the direction of moving population clusters.
Credits: Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel, Philip Weller, Ian Slover, Landon Young, Cecil Howell, Andrea Michalski, Sofie Bamberg, Alex Colard, Zachary Aders.
