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Botanizing Belgrade Asphalt: Sherlock Holmes for Urban Planners and Designers

In the Belgrade Fieldschool for Ethnographic Sensibility students exercise their observational acuity by focusing on places, things and body techniques. This talk will explore ways this training can benefit urban planners and designers.

From Here to There

As foot touches pavement or stone, as movement transpires through space, one’s environment is made real. How important is the individual to the shaping of urban form?

amery Calvelli is dedicated to investigating the effects of spatial practice. A Co-founder and Executive Director of Design Talks Institute (d.talks) in Calgary, she works to advance the public understanding of art, architecture and design. She has consulted with creative practices to renew connections with place and hosted radio and podcast interview program Space and Place.

time and city

Shifting Boundaries

Brigitte Shim will share built work by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects to discuss the shifting boundaries between landscape, architecture and furniture and fittings. 

Challenging the Expectations of Design, Education, and Career in An Overwhelming Superficial Culture

68020: Drawings and plans from the Arthur Erickson Fonds at the Canadian Architectural Archives

In early 2016, Musagetes, an international arts foundation, launched two inter-related programs: (1) the ArtsEverywhere online platform (ArtsEverywhere.ca) and (2) a rhizomatically expanding series of Trans-national Projects in São Paulo, New York, Dakar, and elsewhere. Both of these programs, in addition to Musagetes’ long-term city programs, are based on a belief that many of the most powerful disruptions to our society’s flawed systems and institutions come from positions of struggle—from those on the front lines and those in solidarity with them.

Architectural Formation and Transformation:

Our Use of Geometry to Make Architecture and Human Settlements

Making a Spectacle of Myself: Art Eyewear and Related Works 

When city's lead the way and have their people's back

Shawn Micallef is the author of The Trouble with Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure (2014), Full Frontal TO (2012) Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto (2010). He’s also a weekly columnist at the Toronto Star, a senior editor and co-founder of Spacing magazine, and teaches at the University of Toronto. His latest book, is Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness (released Feb 2017).

 Photo courtesy of the speaker.