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Saturday Nov. 25 - Friday January 19, 2007
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Design
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Made
in Milano- an extraordinary survey of contemporary design
from Milan
Exhibit sections include: Apparel and Small Objects,
Light and Shadows, Home, Sweet Home, Made by hand
,A Passion for Detail, Ideas and Materials, Science
and Research,
Myth and Speed and Signs and Symbols
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2006 Universal
Design Professional Development Series
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Call
for Participation - Passive Parkette Design Charrette
Passive Park Design Charrette (0.12 ha or 0.3 acres)
Date: October 24, 2006
Location: Design Exchange
Registration deadline: October 19
Registration fee: free
The Design Exchange invites you to create a design
team to participate in the Passive Parkette Design
Charrette (0.12 ha or 0.3 acres). Your team will work
in a collaborative planning process that will harnesses
your talents and energies to create and support a
feasible plan that represents transformative community
change.
This call is open to 5 teams led by a landscape architect
and consisting of design professionals, community
members and students who are interested in a neighbourhood
context that can benefit from visionary and socially
inclusive design schemes. Individuals working in the
disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture,
urban and regional design/planning as well as those
who are engaged in more specialized areas of study,
such as youth services, accessibility and health care,
are highly encouraged to participate. Participating
teams will receive an honorarium of $500, and the
winning concept will receive a $2000 award. The team
projects will be featured in an exhibition at Design
Exchange in February, 2007.
For registration form and further information contact
Daniela@dx.org
or tel.416.216-2126
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2006 Universal
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Orphan Spaces:
Priority Neighbourhoods: Designing Spaces with Young
Adults - Fall 2006
2006 Universal Design Professional Development Series
Date: November 8, 2006
Location: Design Exchange
Registration deadline: October 26
Registration fee: free
This call is open to individual designers across all
disciplines. This one day workshop will involve 5
priority neighbourhoods, one design team assembled
by DX devoted to each, in the City of Toronto with
a focus on designing spaces for kids, in consultation
with young adults. This workshop will engage youth,
designers and other professionals on multi-disciplinary
teams, in exploratory and planning activities. With
this workshop, we aim to bridge the gap between the
thought processes and ideas of youth and design/sustainability
experts, and as a result, meet the needs of communities
through collaborative design processes. The charrette
will be featured in Canadian Architect Magazine and
in an exhibition at Design Exchange in March, 2007.
For registration form and further information contact
Daniela@dx.org or
tel.416.216-2126 .
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DX 2006
Fall Charrette
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In
the Spirit of Massive Change - Fall 2006
Date: November 17-20, 2006
In the spirit of Massive Change.
A Charrette Focusing on Sustainability and Social
Responsibility
Location: Chicago
Submission Deadline: October 26, 2006
Registration fee: free
This call is open to 6 Toronto-based design students.
The design team will consist of 6 students from Toronto
and 6 students from Chicago, as well as one design
mentor from each city. DX in partnership with the
City of Toronto’s Economic Development Office
has embarked on an important initiative with Toronto’s
partner city, Chicago. Choosing a site in a priority
neighbourhood of Chicago the design team will propose
a solution for a youth oriented space using guidelines
learned from the Massive Change exhibition by Bruce
Mau Design and the Institute Without Boundaries and
the City Global Visionaries Symposium in Chicago.
The team projects will be featured in an exhibition
at the Chicago Architecture Foundation before opening
at Design Exchange in March, 2007.
For registration form and further information please
contact gillian.ward@dx.org
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Saturday
October 21st, 2006
8 PM until Structural Collapse
Design Exchange Toronto
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The
DX Black and White Gala IN STEEL BLUE
A fundraising event to support young designers
Founders of roots and honourary co-chairs DON
GREEN AND MICHAEL BUDMAN invite you to steel yourself
for some shocking surprises
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Designing
Places and Spaces for Kids' Health Care
This interdisciplinary workshop focuses on
universal design principles, pediatric hospital architecture,
and innovative, state-of-the-art practices relevant
to the design of places and spaces for kids’
health care. Design professionals, health and science
researchers, community members, and students, will
be introduced to ideas posited by children, health
researchers, and product marketers through presentations,
case studies, and discussion.
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Sustainable
Architecture and Design
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IIDEX/NeoCon
Canada
Sustainable architecture and design are here to stay
and IIDEX/NeoCon Canada 2006 is the place to get the
most up-to-date information on how to incorporate
this new way of doing business into your practice.
This year's show will provide you with the tools and
inspiration you require to make a shift in the way
things are done. IIDEX/NeoCon Canada is a platform
that presents the very latest seminars, products,
insights and analysis from which our attendees can
make informed decisions about sustainable architecture.
We are an industry that is comprised of "Change
Agents", professionals who have the
ability to implement big changes in the ways things
are done. Please visit http://www.iidexneocon.com
for more details.
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| In
Your Community |
 Society
for Design Administration Canada
Design as Branding - Thursday April 20, 2006
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Improving
our City!
Street Furniture with Design Sensibilities
March 16, 2006 1:30-5:30pm
Orphans Space Charrettes
April 21 and May 10, 2006 |
Additional
Charrettes Announced
The Design Exchange in partnership with the City of
Toronto invites you to attend a charrette on Toronto’s
Coordinated Street Furniture Program. The program aims
to harmonize the design and placement of street amenities
to achieve a number of objectives such as: improving
the appearance, quality and functionality of street
furniture, enhancing pedestrian circulation and safety,
and giving Toronto beautiful and identifiable streetscapes.
The purpose of the charrette is to solicit the views
of stakeholders from a range of design disciplines and
explore the challenges and opportunities involved in
integrating design into a Request for Proposals (RFP)
that will be issued by the City of Toronto later this
year.
For Further information and to reserve your place at
the Charrette , please contact Rosa
Ricci, Membership Coordinator and Community Liaison;
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Archetype
for the Living City
Coming to the DX
April 26 - June 25, 2006
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Sustainable
Design Competition Exhbit
Toronto and Region Conservation (TRCA), in partnership
with the Design Exchange (DX), have created this competition
with the assumption that in the 21st century sustainable
design is no longer a luxury; it has become a necessity.
Along with this assumption is the belief in the innovation
of Canadian designers and their ability to adapt to
the changing needs of contemporary society.
As a part of The Living City initiative, Archetype
for The Living City: Sustainable House Competition
presents a challenge to design teams from across the
country to create a single family house that will
demonstrate the best in sustainable design and technology.
The exhibition will include the submitted posters,
models and information regarding sustainable development.
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May 14, 2006 |
digifest
digifest is Canada's annual interdisciplinary festival
of the best in innovative new media, art and design
from Canada and abroad. As a strategy to expose various
mods within the digital community and beyond, this year's
digifest showcases all things through unique and personalized
modifications to off-the-shelf products ranging from
personal computers, video games and cell phones to clothing,
cars and dwellings.
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| July 13 -
August 24 |
Alcuin Society
The Vancouver-based Society is exhibiting award-winning
books from its 24th national Canadian book design
competition.
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| August 30
- Sept 11 |
Futura Pragensis
: aeonScope
New project
of Futura Pragensis, creative team of young architects
and designers from Prague, Czech Republic, presenting
their futuristic visions in a virtual gallery.
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| September
16 - 22 |
Applied Arts
Student Work
Announcing
APPLIED ARTS’ First Annual Student Awards
Exhibit. The Student Awards Exhibit will display
all the winning work in five creative areas: advertising,
design, illustration, interactive and photography.
Come and experience the brilliant work of the creative
stars of tomorrow.
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| Sept 26 -
Oct 12 |
Best of Canada
Results of Canadian Interiors annual competition
for furniture and product.
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October 15
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"momentum" by
Wood WORKS!
The Wood WORKS!
installation entitled "momentum" was
designed to encapsulate the continual growth and
acceptance of wood in design and architecture.
As sustainable design and green design continue
to gain acceptance, wood is posed like never before
to rise to the forefront as a viable, affordable
and appropriate
solution to many design problems. "momentum" refers back to the inherent
simplicity of 'wood' and yet shows that it can be arranged and combined to
create provocative and complex forms with ease.
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| November
6 - 10 |
Q'ENCO project
Translating the rich Peruvian
textile heritage into viable and sustainable contemporary
design solutions, this exhibition features collaborations
between Toronto designers and traditional Peruvian
textile artisans. DesignAid explores how the specialised
skills of designers can contribute to the betterment
of our communities, locally and internationally.
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| November
16 - December 1 |
Canstruction
A National
Charity of the Design and Construction Industry
created by the Society for Design Administration.
Competing teams, lead by architects and engineers,
showcase their talents by designing giant sculptures
made entirely out of canned foods. At the close
of the exhibitions all of the food used in the
structures is donated to local food banks for distribution
to pantries, shelters, soup kitchens, elderly and
day care centers.
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| December
4 - 17 |
Rocket/ACIDO
Winning projects from the ACIDO annual juried show
of graduating work from the 3 accredited industrial
design schools in Ontario.
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