DesignTO events
Design for Health, Wellness, Aging and Inclusion
January 17-26, OCAD University - Great Hall, 100 McCaul Street. Reception: Monday, January 20, 5-7 p.m.
In this exhibition, OCAD U third-year Industrial Design students explore investigative, people-first, ground-up ways to better design our world, and consider how those approaches recognize and facilitate our personal, physical and mental diversity. We use design to destigmatize, rethink and reframe health less in terms of addressing medical deficits and more in terms of supporting cultural and social models of support, care, well-being and aging. In collaboration with Baycrest Health Sciences, Beverley School and Safe Haven. Curation: Job Rutgers
Event Sponsor: Scotia Bank
re:LOCATION // an offsite OCADU design course in Regent Park
January 17-26. OCAD University - Great Hall, 100 McCaul Street. Reception: Monday, January 20, 5-7 p.m.
In a collaboration between OCAD University and the Toronto Centre for Community Learning and Development (CCL&D), a second-year OCAD U industrial design class was held offsite at the CCL&D and the Regent Park Community Centre as a way for designers to learn about the pedagogical framework of participatory design along with the women of Regent Park. Curation: Ranee Lee
Event Sponsor: Scotia Bank
January 18-26. 950 Queen Street West. Reception: January 23, 7-11 p.m.
Students from the fourth-year Industrial Design and Graphic Design programs at OCAD University feature their self-authored work in progress through print, interaction design, prototypes, and full-scale models. The projects raise questions and respond to global issues through visual, physical, and interactive outcomes. Reflecting the varied passions of the students, topics include intersectionality, immigration, sustainable fashion, sound pollution, and the materiality of digital culture. Curation: Karin Von Ompteda, Koby Barhad, Angelika Seeschaaf Veres
Space Sponsored by Hullmark.
Tables Chairs and Other unrelated objects 9
January 17-26. Ignite Gallery, 165 Augusta Avenue, Toronto. Reception: Saturday, January 18 from 2-4 p.m.
For furniture makers, it is not always the object alone that is pursued. Students at OCAD University are encouraged to look beyond the final object, to explore and to develop their thinking around the context. The role of furniture as a medium for personal expression, as a reflection of social and cultural norms, and as an influence upon human behaviour becomes the focal point. This exhibition presents original furniture pieces that take these broader discussions into consideration. Growth requires exploration; the goal is to plant the seeds of passion rather than ego. Curated by Kristi Chen and Courtney Thompson.