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deeply with both mind and body. Rooted
in spatial design and art, this installation
emphasises sensory extremes—light,
sound, smell, and touch—creating an
experience that feels both vaguely familiar
and distinctly foreign.

JUSTICE
Ideas Forum: Labour in Architecture
January 28, 2025 | Virtually
Organised by DesignTO in partnership
with the Toronto Society of Architects,
‘Ideas Forum: Labour in Architecture’
features five fast-paced presentations
representing diverse organisational
structures, including co-operative, union,
and employee-owned. This Ideas Forum
considers the business of architecture as a
project worthy of (re)design.

BIPOC Portfolio Collaboration 2025
January 30-31, 2025 | In-person and
online
Bubble Quilt Hosted by Gensler, this 'Portfolio
January 24-February 2, 2025 | 55 St Clair Collaboration' is an opportunity
Avenue West for BIPOC students to engage in
Studio Rat’s immersive inflatable conversations with professionals within
installation and lighting concept, quilted the fields of Architecture, Interior Design,
from reclaimed waste plastics, is sure Landscape Architecture, Architectural
to make you smile in wonderment. Technology, and Experiential
Hand-crafted inflated modules form a Design (Signage & Wayfinding and
soft-glowing grid, illuminating surface Environmental Graphic Design) about
patterns inspired by traditional quilt building their portfolios.
motifs.
Amazon Sucks
The Invisible Tide January 24-February 2, 2025 | 918
January 24, 25, 27, 29, and February 1 | Danforth Avenue
Mason Studio Cultural Hub Discounted prices and unprecedented
Be transported to an unfamiliar place. convenience come at a great cost. With
At the Mason Studio Cultural Hub, a a nod to Warhol's Brillo boxes, these
site-specific installation from the Mason screen-printed boxes use humour to draw
Studio team draws you out of the everyday, attention to the corporations crushing
guiding you on a journey that resonates small businesses. This installation

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