2020 DesignTO Festival is Coming to Yonge + St. Clair

This January 17 – 26 the 2020 DesignTO Festival will feature 5 art installations around the Yonge + St. Clair neighbourhood, including special events, a DesignTO tour on January 19 and Ideas Forum happening on January 22.

Here’s a summary of the installations coming to Yonge + St. Clair for the DesignTO Festival, as well as RSVP instructions for the DesignTO tour and Ideas Forum.

 

1 Delisle Avenue – The Delisle Space
Installation: “A Long Story II”
Artist: Lauren Pirie
Presented by Slate Asset Management

Dates: Fri, Jan 17 – Mon, Jan 27
Hours: Mon – Fri, 10am – 6pm

 

1 Delisle Avenue – The Delisle Space
Installation: “Arborescent”
Artist: Gensler – Gillian Walczak and Yousef Thompson
Presented by Slate Asset Management

Dates: Fri, Jan 17 – Fri, Jan 24
Hours: Mon – Fri, 10am – 6pm

 

55 St. Clair W
Installation: “Inverted Valleys”
Artist: Interspatial – Natalia Bakaeva and Mark Francis
Presented by Slate Asset Management

Dates: Fri, Jan 17 – Sun, Jan 26
Hours: Mon – Fri, 9am – 7pm

 

2 St. Clair W
Installation: “Front of House”
Artist: Layne Hinton and Chris Foster
Presented by Slate Asset Management

Dates: Fri, Jan 17 – Sun, Jan 26
Hours: Mon – Sun, 7am – 6pm

 

1407 Yonge St – Olsson Optical
Installation: “Fantasy Foliage”
Artist: Apoorva Varma
Presented by Olsson Optical

Dates: Fri, Jan 17 – Sun, Jan 26
Hours: Window Display, 24 hours

 

DesignTO Tours: Connection Points at Yonge + St. Clair
January 19, 2020 – 1PM-2PM – 55 St. Clair W

This walking tour will give attendees the opportunity to explore and experience four DesignTO installations in the Yonge + St. Clair neighbourhood alongside the artists and designers who created them!

FREE: RSVP here on Facebook

 

DesignTO Ideas Forum: Materializing the Future
January 22, 2020 – 6PM-8PM – 55 St. Clair W

‘Ideas Forum: Materializing the Future’ features six fast-paced and fun presentations (20 slides shown for 20 seconds each) exploring the themes and questions from DesignTO’s exhibition ‘Future Retrospectives’ with a focus on materiality.

Discover the process behind educator David Correa’s (University of Waterloo) exploration on innovative material fabrication methods and Lauren Abrahams’ (Public Work) research on terrazzo. Educator Kazmy Chi (Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico) speaks about her research into biomimicry and how biomimetics can create sustainable materials for the future.

Founding partner of gh3* Pat Hanson speaks about her work on the Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool in Edmonton, while artist and curator Jessica Thalmann shares her process of reconfiguring iconic Brutalist buildings through folded sculptural forms. Quadrangle’s Richard Witt discusses heavy timber construction through case studies of built work, and Chris Pommer speaks about material memory through the work of the interdisciplinary studio PLANT.

FREE: RSVP here on Eventbrite