Ideas
Quadrangle proposes Neighbourhood Nests for community resilience
Change is all around us.While some of the change is good, some is threatening to bring a lot of stress into our lives. And I don’t think I need to remind…
Covid-19: A push for sustainable construction
How will the Covid-19 pandemic affect the built environment? Will we have to rethink concepts such as urban densification—or will we simply return to “business…
Lessons from a Crisis, Lessons for a Crisis
There are important lessons to be learned from the immediate crisis on our doorstep that can help us deal with the much greater crisis looming on the…
Turn the norm (not a return to norm)
When lockdowns and stay-at-home orders began to respond to Covid-19, so did questions of when things can “return to normal”. This line of questioning…
New Image of Home
It is difficult to overstate the burden of COVID-19. Right after you hit hyperbole, you hit reality. It has shuttered our institutions and our professional…
Next Year in the Park
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the way we move through and occupy space, and it will likely continue to do so for the foreseeable future. With…
Letter from Montreal: Life in isolation, April 13
With the passing of time, life seems to get stabilized in a new routine where a resemblance of normality is channeled through the surrogate digital tools…
Propaganda of Optimism: A tribute to Michael Sorkin (1948-2020)
What makes cities not just livable but lovable is their capacity to generate happy accidents. They are also sites of struggle and misfortune.
Letter from Montreal: Life in isolation, April 6
The more time spent in quarantine or isolation, the fewer surprises one can narrate. We are mostly reduced to a routine that is getting stabilized,…
Letter from Barcelona
LiMa Housing, Berlin, by Herman Hertzberger. Photo: Axel Burvall courtesy are.na
With lockdown in effect in many parts of the world, and urban streets and…
Events
Current Month
may
30apr(apr 30)11:00 am31may(may 31)5:00 pmScotiabank CONTACT Photography FestivalToronto, ON
Event Details
Over 1000 Canadian and international artists will participate in the Festival featuring over 250 exhibitions and programs throughout May in the greater Toronto area. The work of artists
Event Details
Over 1000 Canadian and international artists will participate in the Festival featuring over 250 exhibitions and programs throughout May in the greater Toronto area. The work of artists participating in the 2020 Festival expose physical, emotional, and environmental scars that reflect the fragility of our times. Among the artists showing at the Festival for the first time this year are:
- Laia Abril (Spanish) – exhibition at CONTACT Gallery
- Fatma Bucak (Turkish) – exhibition at MOCA Toronto
- Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács (Dutch) – exhibition at A Space Gallery
- Kim Hoeckele (American) – outdoor billboard installation
- Native Art Department International (NADI) featuring Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan (Anishinaabe & Chiricahua Apache-Indigenous Mexican) – exhibition at Mercer Union
- Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs (both Swiss) – outdoor installation at Metro Hall
- Thirza Schaap (Dutch) – installation throughout Osgoode Subway Station
- Małgorzata Stankiewicz (Polish) – outdoor billboard installation
- Miao Ying (Chinese) – exhibition at Art Museum at the University of Toronto – Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.
- Tereza Zelenkova (Czech)- exhibition at Campbell House Museum
Time
April 30 (Thursday) 11:00 am - May 31 (Sunday) 5:00 pm