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Designers in the Classroom Dec 3 - Jan 17 Pay What You Can This program aims to show students the connection between art and design while raising awareness of how design is an essential part of our everyday lives. Student produced works are showcased in this exhibition with a focus on graphic design, interior design, industrial design and technological industrial design. Read more... |
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Stephen Burks: Man Made Toronto Jan 23 - Apr 1 Pay What You Can Presented by Wedge Curatorial Projects in conjunction with the Studio Museum in Harlem. Inspired by Stephen's collaborations with Senegalese basket weavers based in New York and Dakar, and projects with artisans in South Africa, Peru and India, Man Made starts with the traditional basket-weaving process as its core concept and encourages us to reconsider both the conceptual and the aesthetical value of a handmade object, and celebrate traditional skills, techniques and cultures. Read more... |
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DXA Winner's Exhibition Nov 24 - Feb 26 Free for DX Members $10 Adult / $8 Students and Seniors Canada's Top 50 design projects on display in the following categories - Architecture, Fashion, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Visual Communications and CEO of the Year. Read more... |
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Unfinished Spaces: Screening January 19, 6:30 - 9:30PM $8 DX Members, $15 General Admission Register here Co-director Ben Murray introduces Unfinished Spaces in its Canadian premier. In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Read more... Click here to watch the trailer! |
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Designing a Future for our Future - A dialogic workshop on "The Multiplicity" January 24, 6:30 - 9PM Pay What You Can RSVP with gelareh@todesignoffsite.com Presented with TODO and Design with Dialogue Workshop Conveners: Peter Jones and OCAD University guests The workshop entices participants to co-create a collaborative future as an act of personal foresight. Take on the creation of possible personal scenarios that confront the future opportunities for humanity, positioning our inherent multiplicities as creative narratives to counter the technologically-determined future being called the "singularity." Read more... |
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Making it! January 25, 6:30 - 8PM Recommended Donation $10 RSVP with rsvp@dx.org 20 makers from various design disciplines are each given 5 minutes to walk through a single project from conception to presentation. |
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The Evolving Visual Consumer January 31, 6:30 - 8:30PM $10 for DX/RGD Members, $15 Non-Members Space is limited, RSVP online here RGD Ontario, in collaboration with the Design Exchange, presents The Evolving Visual Consumer a panel discussion on the transformation of how people experience and consume media. With every generation, media are experienced in different ways. Successful designers and other communications professionals keep aware of these changes and continuously find new and innovative ways to reach audiences. Read more... |
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Design Week Tours 1 - 1:40PM FREE for DX Members, $8 Non-Members RSVP with rsvp@dx.org January 23 Stephen Burks: Man Made Toronto January 24 Post-War Design - DX Permanent Collection January 25 Designing the Swinging 60's - DX Permanent Collection January 26 Design Exchange Awards Exhibition January 27 Art Deco & Streamline Modernne: Historic Trading Floor |
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DX Resource Centre Launch January 23, 2012 Open during Museum hours The DX is the only institution with the mandate to collect and preserve Canada's rich industrial design heritage. The collection includes 450 significant pieces spanning over six decades and significant paper archives. The Resource Centre is home to the permanent collection and will be open to the public coinciding with Toronto Design Week. Read more... |
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Not Forkchops January 25 - 29 The Department Gallery Participants Alexx Boisjoli, Anneke van Bommel, Claire Madill, Dawn Petticrew, Maiwenn Castellan, Michelle Ivankovic, Rob Southcott and Fieldguided imm Living will be hosting Not Forkchops, the first and only event during Design Week where the attendees will decide the outcome. Not Forkchops will give Canadian artists and designers the opportunity to showcase how the idea of cultural adaptation and adoption has influenced the work they produce, in a way that is elegant, contemporary and unique. Read more... |
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Come Up To My Room The Gladstone Hotel's Alternative Design Event January 27 - 29 CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The four-day event is in its ninth year at the Gladstone Hotel, featuring 11 room installations and 13 public space projects. Read more... |
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