Friday, April 15, 2011

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Innis Town Hall

University of Toronto

2 Sussex Avenue

Toronto ON, M5S 1J5 

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On Friday, April 15^th, the HUBURBS symposium will convene experts from the fields of planning, development, policy, academic research and design to discuss how transportation development can be leveraged to establish a new urban typology: the HUBURBS – a place of connectivity, community and opportunity that can replace the suburb as a more urbanistic and sustainable model for the future of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

The symposium will look at current notions of transit oriented development and innovative models that have emerged in response to specific local, economic and political contingencies that add new dimensions to the discussion.

The symposium is organized around 3 panel discussions:

Part I | Economics of a HUB will explore the economic, developmental and land-use issues that surround the hub. How can new transportation infrastructures be leveraged to create new opportunities for development, urbanization and job creation in sites which are either of low density or fractured in nature? How can transit companies, as land owners, leverage their holdings to set this process in motion?

Part II | Politics of a HUB will look at the political processes involved in gaining support from the range of stakeholders involved in planning a Hub from national to municipal to local levels.

Part III | HUBURBS: Models and Exemplars will explore a number of achieved and proposed high calibre designs for transit hubs. The panel will consist of designers and developers who will present projects that have creatively addressed one or more of the challenges outlined in Parts I and II.

The event will conclude with an extended roundtable discussion of the ideas and projects forwarded throughout the day.

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SPEAKERS & PROGRAM

Please click here for the full program [PDF].

Part I | Economics of a HUB

Catalytic Development: Transit Vision to Town Council [see presentation]

Dan Rosenfeld, Senior Deputy, LA County Board of Supervisors

Public-Private Partnerships: At the intersection of Design and Finance [see presentation]

Matti Semiatycki, Assistant Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto

Part II | Politics of a HUB

The Hubbub around Huburbs [see presentation]

Dana Cuff, Professor of Architecture/Urban Design and Urban Planning, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

BART Silican Valley [see presentation]

Carolyn Gonot, Chief Development Officer, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)

Super Métro: Rethinking Paris as a Networked Region [see presentation]

Lara Belkind, Visiting Fellow, SciencesPo, Paris; PhD Candidate, Harvard University

Part III | HUBURBS: Models and Exemplars

TRANSFERS, NODES, HUBS  AND PLACES: Different forms of intermodal exchange [see presentation]

Marcel Smets, Flemish State Architect and Professor of Urbanism at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Sound Transit North Link University Station, Seattle WA [see presentation]

Mark Reddington, LMN Architect

Taming the Bus: Strategies for Urbanizing Suburban Transit Stations [see presentation]

Seth Riseman, Utile, Inc. Architecture + Planning

Stone Soup: Playa Rosa, Los Angeles, CA [see presentation]

Roger Sherman, RSAUD

Marine Gateway, Vancouver BC [see presentation]

David Dove, Busby Perkins & Will

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BIOGRAPHIES

Lara Belkind is an architect and urban planner completing a PhD at Harvard University. Her research examines infrastructure as a site of conflict and negotiation in contemporary Paris. She has taught urban theory and design at the Architectural Association in London, at Yale, and at Harvard and has worked professionally creating large-scale urban redevelopment strategies with public agencies in New York and Washington DC.

Dana Cuff holds her primary appointment in the Department of Architecture and a joint appointment in Urban Planning. She is the founding director of cityLAB, a research center at UCLA that explores the challenges facing the 21st century metropolis through design and research. Cuff's work focuses on urban design, affordable housing, modernism, urban sensing technologies, and the politics of place. She has published widely on these topics, including the books Fast Forward Urbanism (edited with Roger Sherman, Princeton Architectural 2011) and The Provisional City (MIT 2000), a project supported by both the Getty and the National Endowment for the Arts. Through cityLAB, Cuff has expanded her studies of infrastructure, postsuburban Los Angeles, and new formulations of green design, most recently through funded research about the urban design implications of proposed high speed rail. She organized the design ideas competition called WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture which attracted 400 submissions from students and design professionals around the world in 2009. Dr. Cuff teaches various courses related to the profession of architecture as well as special seminars on cultural issues, architectural theory, and urbanism.

David Dove is a Principal with the award-winning Vancouver studio of Busby Perkins+Will Architects, which has been producing leading-edge green building designs for 25 years. In his 18 years of practice, David has been focused on Corporate, Commercial and Civic projects with a particular interest in transit oriented mixed-use developments. With a portfolio of projects that range from the 65 sm White Rock Operations Centre (Canada's first LEED NC Gold building) to a 95,000 sm mixed-use development that includes a transit hub, the common thread of David's work is an adherence to a rigorous modern aesthetic and a commitment to sustainable design solutions. His design for Simon Fraser University's Blusson Hall was awarded a 2009 Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia Medal in Architecture – the province's highest architectural award honouring design excellence. David has worked on projects in Canada, the US and overseas and has lectured broadly on his work at Busby Perkins+Will, issues of Sustainable Architecture and the role of architecture in the addressing this generation's environmental responsibilities.

Carolyn Gonot is the Chief SVRT (or Silicon Valley Rapid Transit) Program Officer at Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA).  She is responsible for the development and implementation of the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Corridor Program (SVRT). As Chief SVRT Program Officer, she is responsible for overseeing all of the planning and development activities and securing of all of the approvals and funding required for VTA to move forward with final design and construction of the SVRT system. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Gonot was the Chief Development Officer, responsible for direction and coordination of the functions of the Development and Congestion Management Division, including Planning, Project Development, Congestion Management Program, Grants Management and Marketing and Public Affairs.  She has also served as the Deputy Director of the Congestion Management Program at VTA and has been employed by VTA since July 1996.  As Deputy Director, she administered activities and developed policies relating to the long-range countywide transportation plan.  Ms. Gonot worked for transportation consulting firms before joining VTA.  Her education includes a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.  

Mark Reddington FAIA, design partner of Seattle's LMN Architects, is widely recognized for his innovative and integrative designs of civic places. Reddington's award winning designs continue to transform the civic landscape in Seattle as well as cities such as Vancouver BC, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Memphis, San Antonio, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. Mark's design leadership has been instrumental in establishing LMN as a leader in the design of public places, resulting in projects that have been recognized with over 120 design awards, including a 2011 AIA National Committee on the Environment Award and an AIA National Honor Award for the Vancouver Convention Centre West project in Vancouver BC. He is a frequent presenter and awards jury member for universities, and civic and professional organizations throughout North America. His work has been published nationally and internationally throughout Europe and Asia. The prominence and significant public impact of his work is demonstrated by widespread acclaim not only from architecture critics, but also urban design writers, music and arts experts, technical journals, accessibility advocates, broadcast media, and civic organizations. He is currently completing designs for 2 transit stations, and the associated urban planning, for the evolving Sound Transit system in the Seattle region. Each is integrated into unique settings engaging the surrounding pedestrian, bicycle, bus and auto mobility systems as well as major public spaces of the University of Washington campus and private development opportunities.

Seth Riseman is a Boston-based architect and urban designer specializing in the intersection of design with economic development, urban policy, and community planning. He has managed projects in communities across the United States and abroad, most recently, in the United Arab Emirates. At Utile, an architecture and planning firm with an expertise in typology-driven urban design, Seth has worked with public agencies and private developers to design implementable solutions to the overlapping physical, economic and policy dynamics that impact the realization of transit-oriented developments. Seth holds both a Masters in Architecture and a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design as well as a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia. He has taught at Northeastern University and the Boston Architectural College.

Dan Rosenfeld is Senior Deputy to Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, with responsibility for economic development, land use, sustainability and transportation issues. Mr. Rosenfeld has alternated in his career between public and private-sector service. He has worked previously as Director of Real Estate for the State of California and City of Los Angeles. In the private-sector, Mr. Rosenfeld served as a senior officer with The Cadillac Fairview Corporation, Tishman-Speyer Properties, and Jones Lang LaSalle. He was a founding member of Urban Partners, LLC, a nationally recognized developer of urban infill, mixed-use and transit-oriented real estate. Mr. Rosenfeld is a graduate of Stanford University and the Harvard Business School.

Roger Sherman, AIA is principal of Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design in Los Angeles. His work has been featured on CNN; in Newsweek, Metropolis, and Surface and other magazines, as well as in numerous books, including The Infrastructural City and On Farming, both from Actar. His Duck-and-Cover and Playa Rosa projects were exhibited at the 2009 Int'l Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam; and the 2010 Venice Biennale, respectively. Mr. Sherman is also Co-Director of cityLAB, an urban thinktank at UCLA, where he is also Adjunct Professor. He is author of several books, including LA Under the Influence: the Hidden Logic of Urban Property (Univ. of Minn., 2010); Re: American Dream: New Housing Prototypes for Los Angeles (Princeton Arch'l Press); and co-editor, with Dana Cuff, of Fast Forward: After the Master Plan (Princeton Architectural Press, forthcoming). Roger has taught and lectured widely, including at here at Harvard, as well as at Zocalo Public Square, and New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Matti Siemiatycki is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. His teaching and research focuses on transportation planning, urban decision making, and the processes through which large infrastructure projects are planned, procured, financed and delivered. His published research examines major transit, highway, bridge and tunnel projects carried out in Canada, the United States, India, Britain, Australia and Spain. Before joining the University of Toronto, Siemiatycki worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He holds a PhD in Community and Regional Planning from the University of British Columbia.

Marcel Smets is Flemish State Architect and Professor of Urbanism at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He has been active in the area of history and theory with monographs about Huib Hoste and Charles Buls, as well as reviews about the development of the concept of green suburbs in Belgium and the country's recovery after 1914. He has written articles of architectural criticism for publications such as Archis, Topos, Lotus and Casabella, and has served as a jury member for many competitions. He was a founder member of ILAUD (Urbino, 1976) and visiting professor at the University of Thessalonka (1987) and Harvard (GSD - 2002, 2003, 2004). He has also sat on the scientific commission of EUROPAN since its inception. In 1989, Smets established the Town Planning Project Team (Projectteam Stadsontwerp), a research and development department within Leuven University, which is involved with the restructuring of abandoned industrial areas and derelict harbours and railway yards. He was the chief developer of the widely publicised and highly praised transformation of the area around Leuven station, and for town planning projects which include Antwerp city centre (B), Hoeilaart (B), Turnhout (B), Rouen (F), Genoa (I) and, Conegliano (I). Currently, Smets's research is targeted principally at landscape and infrastructure.

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REGISTRATION

There are still seats remaining, please contact Nene Brode.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

HUBURBS: Metrolinx Mobility Hub Symposium is hosted by the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto and generously supported by Metrolinx. There is no charge for this event.

About the Image: Expanding itineraries on the Lakeshore West Go line.

Credit: Jameson Skaife (MLA Candidate 2011) and Taslima Afroze (MUD Candidate 2011), Daniels Faculty

A transdisciplinary symposium examining the pathology, ubiquity and negentropic potential of architecture as it is and as it could be.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

9am-5pm

Co-presented by

OCAD University, Office of the President;

University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

REGISTRATION:

This event is free of charge and open to the public. As seating is limited, advance registration is highly recommended.  To reserve your seat, visit Tickets.

Architecture is All Over is a one-day, international symposium featuring provocative papers from emerging thinkers and challenging conversations between established scholars both within and outside the discipline of architecture. All contributions will offer new ways to analyze, reimagine and foment architecture’s paradoxical contraction and expansion as it both affects and is affected by a larger milieu, and is situated within a range of spatial practices.

The first of three sessions, The Pathology of Architecture will explore architecture’s (in)ability to cope with the challenges and contradictions inherent in its own indeterminate identity. Mason White (University of Toronto) will discuss how other practices have poached terms and territory from architecture as a disciplinary agent. Jennifer Leung (Yale) will examine the architectural responses to existential external threats and internal weaknesses, focusing on the strategies of heraldry, camouflage and risk. A psychoanalytic conversation between the architectural theorists, K. Michael Hays (Harvard) and Andrew Payne (University of Toronto) will close the session.

The Nebulous and the Infinitesimal will survey architecture’s simultaneous tendencies to both expand and evaporate. Alexander Hilton-Wood (MIT) will present the case for smallness in architecture. Olga Touloumi (Harvard) will take on the surprising power of architecture as electronic media. To conclude this session, the historian of science, D. Graham Burnett (Princeton), and architectural theorist, David Gissen (California College of the Arts), will discuss alternative architectural approaches to environmental modification that recognize our dawning apperception of our agential extension.

Finally, Negentropic Machines will feature speculative proposals for architecture as it could become. It will include a presentation by Patty Heyda (Washington University in St. Louis) arguing for architecture’s emergence in the waste zones created by large-scale urban infrastructural development, and a provocation by Trevor Patt (EPFL) about the agonistic potential of a forgetful, generic architectural interface. A conversation between the architectural theorist, Sanford Kwinter (Harvard), and the historian and theorist of visual culture, Jill Casid (University of Wisconsin-Madison), will explore how architectural discourse might formulate new, critical and interpretive vantages capable of reimagining the monstrous actions we release into the world as possibilities rather than pathogens.

COMPLETE PROGRAM available at Work Books

This event is organized by

Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter of Work Books

Architecture Is All Over is co-presented by

OCAD University, Office of the President

University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.

We thank the generous support of

Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada

Bohart

A symposium to bring together stakeholders including elected officials, non profits, City staff, and developers to explore the regulatory changes that are required to secure affordable rental housing in condos using sections 37 and 45(9) of the Planning Act. The goal is to permit condos to be donated as community benefits to non-profits.

PARTICIPANTS

Moderator:

Ratna Omidvar, President, Maytree Foundation

Panel:

Adam Vaughan, Councillor, Trinity-Spadina

Sean Gadon, Director, City of Toronto Affordable Housing Office

Gary Switzer, President and CEO Tricon Development Group

Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010

Time: 2:00 - Welcome coffee and cookies reception

2:30-4:30 - Panel discussion and questions

4:30-5:30 - Social hour

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design

University of Toronto

230 College Street, Room 103

Presented by Kehilla Residential Program

co-sponsored by Cities Centre

There is no charge for this event, but registration is required:

RSVP by January 23 to kehilla@rogers.com

Innate Terrain was a national symposium and exhibition on the exemplary work and ideas of established and emerging Canadian landscape architects. Speakers were invited to present their Canadian projects from the years 2000 to 2010, and to discuss a Canadian specific trajectory. The symposium and exhibition aimed to locate Canadian landscape architects in North American and international contexts, thereby relaying a distinct approach practiced by Canadian landscape architects.

Symposium 6 February 2010

Daniels 103 Lecture Hall

Exhibition 1–12 February 2010

Daniels LWR Gallery 230 College Street

Innate Terrain:

Canadian Work of Established and Emerging Canadian Landscape Architecture Practices

Symposium 6 February 2010

Daniels 103 Lecture Hall 230 College Street

Exhibition 1–12 February 2010

Daniels LWR Gallery 230 College Street

Open to all. Free admission.

Exhibition images [PDF]

Symposium Program [PDF]

The Innate Terrain Symposium is now available on DVD through  the University of Toronto Bookstore.



Speakers include:

Welcome

Dean Richard Sommer University of Toronto



Opening Remarks

Alissa North University of Toronto



Keynote

Charles Waldheim Harvard GSD



Canada Panel

Chris Grosset Aarluk Consulting Iqaluit NU

James Thomas HTFC Winnipeg MB

Bruce Hemstock PWL Partnership Vancouver BC

Doug Carlyle Carlyle + Associates Edmonton AB

Douglas Olson O2 Planning + Design Calgary AB



Ontario Panel

Janet Rosenberg JRA Toronto ON

George Dark Urban Strategies Toronto ON

Donna Hinde The Planning Partnership Toronto ON

John Hillier DTAH Toronto ON



Emerging Canadian Practitioners Panel

Marc Hallé Claude Cormier Montréal QC

Fung Lee PMA Landscape Architects Toronto ON

Angela Morin SageHouse Halifax NS

Pete North North Design Office Toronto ON

Tina Beers BDA Landscape Architects Moncton NB

Josée Labelle/Mélanie Mignault NIP Paysage



Summary Remarks

Jane Wolff University of Toronto



Innate Terrain was generously sponsored by:

Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation (LACF)

Ontario Association of Landscape Architects (OALA)

North Design Office

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

Image of Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park

Copyright NUNAVUT PARKS/Chris Grosset

Alphabet City Festival 2009: WATER

Toronto, 31 October – 6 November, Toronto

presents

HYDROCity

November 6, 2009

Room 103, University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

9am-6pm

HYDROCITY will be devoted to studying the relationship between urban forms and the hydrological systems in which they are embedded. If the twentieth century has been marked by our global thirst for fuel, the twenty-first century, will be defined by our collectively growing need for water. Impending water shortages are changing patterns of urbanization and requiring increasingly elaborate infrastructures by which to source, collect, divert and transport water to the urban centres that hold a growing majority of the world’s population. These population centres will in turn need to be redesigned and retrofitted to conserve, collect, repurify, and recirculate increasingly precious water resources while at the same time rethinking and rebuilding their cities’ relationships with the complex watersheds on which they are built and upon which they depend. The resulting liquid infrastructure is poised to redefine our notion of natural and artificial landscapes, as disparate ecological environments are networked and conflated. What forms of urbanism and landscape systems will emerge, and what design potentials exist, in this expanding liquid infrastructure?

The results generated by HYDROCITY will include equipping a new generation of architects, urban planners, and policy makers with the conceptual frameworks and design tools they need to advance water-friendly design, connecting a broad public with new ideas and policy options, and providing policy makers with additional public awareness and innovative ideas with which to advance sound water policies.

Participants:

ALAN BERGER is Associate Professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he teaches courses in the department of urban studies and planning. He founded and directs P-REX, The Project for Reclamation Excellence at MIT, a trans-disciplinary research effort focusing on the design and reuse of waste landscapes worldwide.

 

AZIZA CHAOUNI is Assistant Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. She is the principal of Bureau E.A.S.T, a design firm with offices in Los Angeles, Toronto and Fez, Morocco. Bureau E.A.S.T’s Fez river rehabilitation project won the Holcim 2008 Africa-Midle East Gold Award in Sustainable Construction, The Holcim 2009 World Gold Award in Sustainable Construction, the 2009 EDRA best places award, and was a finalist in the Index Design Award 2009. Bureau E.A.S.T was the recipient of the NY architecture League Young Architect award. Chaouni has been leading with Prof. Liat Margolis a collaborative research on innovative technologies in arid climates: the Out of Water project.

 

JANDIRK HOEKSTRA is Director at H+N+S Landschapsarchitecten based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The practice works for a wide range of clients, including organizations concerned with area development in both official and private domains: national, provincial and municipal government bodies, water boards, large nature conservancy organizations, property development companies, special interest groups and private clients.

 

NINA-MARIE LISTER is Associate Professor of Urban + Regional Planning at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. A Registered Professional Planner (MCIP, RPP) with a background in resource management, field ecology and environmental science, Lister is the founding principal of plandform, a creative studio practice exploring the relationship between landscape, ecology, and urbanism. Her research, teaching and practice focus on the confluence of landscape infrastructure and ecological processes within contemporary metropolitan regions.

 

MICHAEL HOUGH was the founding partner of Michael Hough Associates in 1963 and has continued with the firm as it has evolved today into the trademark of environmental planning and design office “Envision - The Hough Group”. He was a founder of the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Toronto as well as the Environmental Landscape Design program at York University. He has been teaching at York University as a professor since 1973 and has also taught at Harvard, University of Manitoba and University of Rhode Island.

ROBERT LEVIT is Director of the Master of Urban Design program at the Daniels Faculty. He is a partner in the design firm Khoury Levit Fong and has won several international architecture and urban design competitions. He is currently designing the research district for a new satellite city in Tai Yuan, Shanxi province, China. His work links the urban and architectural scales.

 

LIAT MARGOLIS is Assistant Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. She is practicing landscape architect, and a cofounder/director of materials research at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Previously, as director of material research at Material ConneXion NY, Margolis was instrumental in the development of a cross-disciplinary material database, and a research concerning the environmental impacts of industrial manufacturing. Margolis is the co-author of the book Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture [Birkhauser 2007].

 

KOEN OLTHUIS is the founder of the Dutch architectural firm Waterstudio.NL, which specializes in floating structures to counter concerns of floods. In 2007 he was chosen as #122 on Time Magazine’s list of most influential people in the world. His vision is to change cities worldwide using water as building ground. The first city in which this work is under development is The Westland, near The Hague in Holland.

 

ANDREW PAYNE completed his doctorate in English at the University of Toronto in 2003. In addition to his work on literature, Dr. Payne has published work on the contemporary visual arts in periodicals such as Parachute and C and on architecture in publications such as Praxis and Pamphlet Architecture. He has also been an editor for a variety of cultural publications, including Impulse, Borderlines, and Public. Since completing his dissertation, Payne is Assistant Professor of History and Theory and coordinator of the Writing Program at the Daniels Faculty.

 

KATHERINE RINNE originated, developed, and currently directs “Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome,” an ongoing web-based research project published by the University of Virginia. Currently an Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts, Katherine has also taught architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design at the University of Arkansas, Iowa State University, Harvard University, and UC Berkeley.

 

CATHERINE SEAVITT AIA LEED is principal of Catherine Seavitt Studio, an interdisciplinary practice premised on the collaborative integration of architecture, landscape, and public infrastructure.  Current research includes collaboration on the book On the Water: Palisade Bay, presenting the findings of the 2007 FAIA Latrobe Prize research grant, an infrastructural and ecological study and proposal for the Upper Bay of New York and New Jersey given the effects of sea level rise.

KELLY SHANNON is Professor of Landscape Urbanism at KU Leuven (Belgium). Most of her work has focused on the evolving relation of landscape, infrastructure and urbanization in South and Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India).

 

DAVID WAGGONNER is principal of Waggonner & Ball Architects, a New Orleans-based architecture and planning firm. With the support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy and the American Planning Association, Mr. Waggonner has continued the effort to define more intelligently the planning and redevelopment problem that the New Orleans region presents.

 

MASON WHITE is Assistant Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. He is founding partner of Lateral Office, an award-winning Toronto-based design practice, and InfraNet Lab, a research laboratory examining the relationship between urbanism and resources that maintains the annual journal [bracket]. Lateral Office / InfraNet Lab was recently selected to author the forthcoming issue of Pamphlet Architecture #30 with a proposal titled “Coupling: Strategies of Infrastructural Opportunism” (Princeton Arch Press 2010). Mason was the 2009 recipient of the Arthur Wheelwright Fellowship from Harvard GSD. InfraNet Lab initiated HYDROCity in collaboration with Alphabet City.

 

JANE WOLFF is Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at the Daniels Faculty. Before Jane Wolff joined Daniels, she was an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design at Washington University in Saint Louis. She has taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts and at Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture, and in 2006 she was the Beatrix Farrand Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley. Wolff is the author of Delta Primer: a field guide to the California Delta, a book and deck of cards designed to educate diverse audiences about the contested landscape of the California Delta.

 

ROBERT WRIGHT is Associate Professor at the Daniels Faculty, and principal of iz, an open and exploratory design practice. Wright is also the Associate Director of the Centre for Landscape Research, an associate of the Cities Centre at the University of Toronto and is cross-appointed with the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto. He is a full member of the OALA and a Fellow of the CSLA. Wright was also the Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture program, Associate Dean,  and Director of the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto.

HYDROCity Event Schedule

November 6, 2009

Room 103, University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, 230 College Street

9:00 – Welcome, Opening – Dean Richard Sommer (Daniels), Mason White (Daniels)

AM Session: Urban Ecologies

9:20 – Katherine Rinne (California College of the Arts)

9:50 – Michael Hough (York)

10:20 – Nina-Marie Lister (Ryerson)

10:50 – Alan Berger (MIT)

11:20 – Jandirk Hoekstra (H+N+S)

11:50 – respondent: Robert Levit (Daniels)

12:00 – PANEL ONE – Jane Wolff (Daniels), moderator

12:35 – Open-audience discussion

1:00 – 2:00 LUNCH

PM Session:  Urban Infrastructures

2:15 – Aziza Chaouni / Liat Margolis (Daniels)

2:45 – David Waggonner (WB Architects)

3:15 – Kelly Shannon (KU Leuven)

3:45 – Catherine Seavitt (Seavitt Studio)

4:15 – Koen Olthuis (Waterstudio)

4:45 – respondent: Andy Payne (Daniels)

4:55 – PANEL TWO – Robert Wright (Daniels), moderator 5:30 – Open-audience discussion

6:00 – Closing – Jane Wolff, Mason White

HYDROCITY and the WATER Festival are made possible possible through the support of: The Mondriaan Foundation; The MIT Press; Canada Council for the Arts; Ontario Arts Council; The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Cities Centre, University of Toronto; RBC Blue Water Project; Toronto Arts Council; CLARITY;  Drake Hotel; University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design; Warren's Waterless Printing; Cascades; University of Waterloo, Architecture; The Dominion; Hagen; Toronto Free Gallery; Circuit Gallery.

For more information on HYDROCITY and the WATER Festival vist http://alphabet-city.org/

Current Issues in Exhibition Design

Part of Québec Now!
Harbourfront Centre
A Celebration of Contemporary Québec Arts and Culture in Toronto

December 5, 2008 | 6:00 PM TO 7:30 PM
The Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West Toronto Canada | Jackman Hall

December 6, 2008 | 10:00 AM TO 6:30 PM
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
University of Toronto
230 College Street Toronto Canada | Room 103

In light of recent transformations to the city of Toronto’s museum landscape, with the new ROM crystal, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gardiner Museum, and the Aga Khan Foundation for Islamic Art, this international symposium will address ideas of new museography, the art of designing exhibitions, in the contemporary museum.

The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design with the Art Gallery of Ontario will host curators, designers, architects, and museographers from Europe and North America to debate positions on the art of display and the shifting status of its object.

Keynote Address by Michael Govan Director, LACMA

Panelists and presenations include:

The Virtual, Interactive Museum: An End in Itself or a Tool?
Manon Blanchette Ph.D. Board of Montréal Museum Directors

How New Technologies Improve Artefact, Presentation and Mediation?
Christophe Clément Ministry of Culture, France

exhibiting OR echoing back a multifold reality
Philippe Dubé Ph.D. Laval University | LAMIC

A View on a Practice: From the Staging of Concepts Intended to Display the “Understanding” to the Promotion – If Not the Rerouting – of Specific Works
Jérôme Habersetzer Architect-Museographer

The Louvre Museum: Between Heritage and Creation
Clio Karageorghis Musée du Louvre

Putting the Visitor at the Centre of Experience Design in the Transformed AGO
Kelly Mckinley Art Gallery of Ontario

Out of Context But Into the Spotlight: African Objects of Ethnography in American Museums of Art
Costantine Petridis Cleveland Museum of Art

Frank Understood: Staging Experiences with Art in the Transformed AGO
Dennis Reid Art Gallery of Ontario

The Museum as a Performance
François Tremblay Musée de la civilisation

Moderators:

George Baird University of Toronto
Pina Petricone University of Toronto
Andrew Payne University of Toronto

This event is open to the public and attendance is free of charge. Registration is required | registration@daniels.utoronto.ca

Supported by:

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
danielsdev.site

Art Gallery of Ontario
www.ago.net

Consulat Général de France
www.diplomatie.gouv.fr

CulturesFrance
www.culturesfrance.com

Ministère de la culture, des communications et de la condition féminine du Québec
www.mcccf.gouv.qc.ca

Bureau du Québec à Toronto
www.saic.gouv.qc.ca/bureauduquebec/bureau_quebec_toronto.htm

Centre d'Etudes de la France et du Monde Francophone
www.chass.utoronto.ca/french

Media Release:

Please click here for the Poster [PDF].

Program:

Please click here for the UPDATED Program [PDF].

Emerging practices, paradigms & technologies reshaping the contemporary urban landscape

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

University of Toronto

230 College Street, Toronto, Canada

Lecture Hall (103)

9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

An international symposium focusing on the emerging relationship that landscape and infrastructure has currently taken on, evidenced by the development of major public works in big cities worldwide. Guest speakers will present emerging paradigms, practices and technologies that are reshaping the contemporary urban landscape to reposition planners and designers vis-à-vis the reclamation of urban infrastructure as a critical territory for intervention.

Guest speakers include:

Stan Allen, Princeton University

George Baird, University of Toronto

Pierre Bélanger, University of Toronto

Julia Czerniak, Syracuse University

Herbert Dreiseitl, Atelier Dreiseitl

Kristina Hill, University of Virginia

Michael Jakob, Université de Genève

Nina-Marie Lister, Ryerson University

Kate Orff, Columbia University, SCAPE

Jane Wolff, University of Toronto

Moderators for the panel discussions include core faculty from the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design: Aziza Chaouni, Ted Kesik, Robert Levit, Liat Margolis, Alissa North, Mason White and Robert Wright.

The event is conceived and organized by Pierre Bélanger, Co-Director of the Centre for Landscape Research in association with the Programs of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Toronto. The symposium is paired with an exhibit titled Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture, featuring a new publication co-authored by Liat Margolis and Alexander Robinson. Funding for the symposium is generously provided by the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, the University of Toronto Connaught Fund, the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council and National Research Council Canada. The event is open to the public and attendance is free of charge.

Please click here for the symposium poster [PDF].

Please click here for the symposium program [PDF].

Please click here for the speaker abstracts [PDF].

Please click here for the exhibition photographs [PDF].

DVD - Symposium Proceedings



The proceedings of the symposium are available in DVD format online (www.uoftbookstore.com/online/) and at the University of Toronto Bookstore (St. George Campus) starting July 15, 2009. If you do not see the DVD online, please call the Trade Information Desk at 416-640-5820.

For students, educators, researchers and professionals in the interrelated fields of design, planning, engineering and public administration, the disc set features edited recordings of the proceedings including lecture presentations by Stan Allen, George Baird, Pierre Bélanger, Julia Czerniak, Herbert Dreiseitl, Kristina Hill, Michael Jakob, Nina-Marie Lister, Kate Orff and Jane Wolff as well as plenary discussions with Rodolphe El-Khoury, David Fletcher, Ted Kesik, Robert Levit, Liat Margolis, Alissa North, Mason White and Robert Wright. The DVD also features a new afterword, and a full list of reference readings on the converging fields of landscape and infrastructure. For librarians and archivists, the DVD comes with CIP data, ISBN and UPC code for cataloguing purposes. For the full launch message, see: /news_events/2009/06/4402.

For any further inquiries, please contact Anna Lightfoot, Communications Officer (anna.lightfoot@daniels.utoronto.ca), Dr. Ted Kesik, Professor of Site Engineering & Building Science (ted.kesik@daniels.utoronto.ca) or Pierre Bélanger, Director, Landscape Infrastructure Lab, Harvard University (belanger@harvard.edu).

No.9 Presents an Evening of Art & Ecology Water Issues: From the Local to Global

Symposium Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008

Isabel Bader Theatre

93 Charles St. West., Toronto

6-9 PM

Tickets $15

Tickets are available at U of T Tix, www.uofttix.ca, 416 978 8849

 

BGL's commissioned art installation Project for the Don River will be the starting point for a discussion of art and its role in ecological awareness, Toronto's own water issues, and the importance of water conservation and governance on a global scale.  The evening will finish with a screening of Irina Salina's acclaimed documentary  FLOW: For Love of Water 

Speakers include:

Nicolas Laverdière, BGL Artist, BGL's Project for the Don River commissioned by No.9

Jennifer Bonnell, PhD candidate, University of Toronto

John Wilson, Bring Back the Don & Pollution Probe

Moderated by Jane Farrow, Writer, Radio broadcaster, Exec, Director of Jane's Walk



No. 9 Symposium Poster is available here [PDF]

Exhibition Dates: April 22, 2008 – June 29, 2008

Lower Don River

For Directions to the Exhibition please visit www.no9.ca

This symposium focuses on projects by Chinese architects and artists that
critically engage urban development in China today. These practitioners approach
their context in flux from a tactical perspective that starts with a close
reading of the given social and material situation, setting their proposals
apart from strategic initiatives that respond abstractly to the demands of
foreign and local capital or state ideology.

Since the early 1980s, China has been transformed in unprecedented ways.
Incredible economic growth has created a new middle class, cities have been
physically reconstructed, culture has been opened to capitalist markets, and
farmers have moved to cities to find work. However, this urban revolution has
brought with it many contradictions. Cities and towns are being quickly produced
for immediate effect, projecting the image of a rapidly modernizing society,
while the uneven development of urban and rural spaces and people intensifies.

Panel 1: Motors of Development: State and Market

10:30am
- 12:00pm

ERIC CAZDYN (UofT, Film Studies) discussant

ANNE-MARIE BROUDEHOUX
(Université du Québec à Montréal)

OU NING (Artist, Guangzhou/Beijing)

MENG
YUE (UofT, East Asian Studies)

Panel 2: New Landscapes between the Urban and the
Rural

1:30pm – 3:00pm

ROBERT WRIGHT (al&d) discussant

ADRIAN BLACKWELL (al&d)

ALANA
BOLAND (UofT, Geography)

PETER METTLER (Filmmaker, Toronto)

Panel 3: Tactical Architecture in a Shifting
Context

3:15pm – 4:45pm

ROBERT LEVIT (al&d) discussant

ZHU JIANFEI (University of
Melbourne)

WANG HUI (Urbanus Architecture and Design,
Shenzhen/Beijing)

WEIWEI SHANNON (People’s Architecture, New York)

Roundtable Discussion

5:00pm – 6:00pm