For 10 days from January 24 – Feb 2, 2025 Toronto will be buzzing with energy and innovation. The DesignTO Festival celebrates design as a multidisciplinary form of creative thinking and making. People come to explore, learn, and get inspired through architectural tours, craft and design exhibitions, window installations, thought-provoking talks, and other unique experiences.

The Yonge + St. Clair BIA is a proud sponsor of the Festival, and will host 7 large-scale art installations in various highrise office lobbies and multiple guided walking tours across the neighbourhood, including one led by the artists. Installations include original and sponsored works designed and constructed by locally-based artists.

A special thanks to our site sponsors who have invested additional resources to ensure these art installations are larger than life: JLL, ChoiceREIT, Desjardins.

Use the map below to find all the festival programming, and click the links below for more information.

 

INSTALLATIONS

1 – ‘The Archivist’ by Pixel Heller and MCA Gallery (📍 22 St. Clair E)

2 – ‘Narcissus Falls’ by Land Art Design (📍 2 St. Clair W)

3 – Yes, And by Gensler (📍 30 St. Clair W)

4 – Tangled Paths by Nargiza Usmanova, NUMZ Graphics (📍 40 Delisle Ave)

5 – Bubble Quilt by Studio Rat (📍 55 St. Clair W)

6 – ‘Homing (Pigeon Store)’ by Maddy Young, and MCA Gallery (📍 95 St. Clair W)

7 – ‘Beyond the Body’ by Pixel Heller, and MCA Gallery (📍 95 St. Clair W)

Guided Walking Tours  

8 – DesignTO Tours: Dualities  This walking tour invites you to take a closer look at three temporary artworks with firsthand insight from the artists and designers behind the projects, delve deeper into the site-specific installations, their stories, and how they came to be. (Saturday February 2, 2025 2:00pm – 3:00pm, starting at 2 St. Clair West). RSVP Here.

9 – Yonge + St. Clair Tours with Lloyd Alter This series of six (6), 45-minute long walking tours are expertly led by our resident Cultural + Urbanism Ambassador. Each tour will take groups to 3 art installations while also providing deeper insight into the architectural and historical elements of Yonge + St. Clair. Sign up for dates below when links become available:

Tour 1: Saturday, January 25th 2-3 p.m. RSVP Here.

Tour 2: Sunday, January 26th, 2-3 p.m. RSVP Here.

Tour 3: Monday, January 27th, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. RSVP Here.

Tour 4: Tuesday, January 28th, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. RSVP Here.

Tour 5: Thursday, January 30th, 2-3 p.m. RSVP Here.

Tour 6: Friday, January 31st 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. RSVP Here.

Behind the Scenes

Many of the artworks hosted at Yonge + St. Clair are all-new and original pieces that are being unveiled for the first time on January 24th. To keep your interest piqued, some of the artists have generously documented and shared images of their behind-the-scenes work below!

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors and Collaborators

 

 

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