Symposia & Conferences

03/09/2012 - 14:00 - 03/10/2012 - 18:00

GEORGE BAIRD: A QUESTION OF INFLUENCE

Date: March 9 & 10

Registration for the Friday sessions is now full.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE A RUSH LINE AT THE TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX FOR THOSE WHO WERE NOT ABLE TO OBTAIN A TICKET.

If you do have a ticket, please arrive early to secure your seat. If you have not arrived by 6:20 PM, your reservation may be filled by guests waiting in the rush line.

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HUBURBS: Metrolinx Mobility Hub Symposium

04/15/2011 - 09:00 - 15:30

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 t

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OUT OF WATER | SUSTAINING DEVELOPMENT IN ARID CLIMATES

04/01/2011 - 09:00 - 04/02/2011 - 17:30

organized by: Liat Margolis & Aziza Chaouni

Friday & Saturday, April 1 & 2, 2011
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

This conference will offer a forum for water experts in the fields of design, engineering, natural and social sciences to identify not only specific disciplinary methodologies, but also areas of applied and theoretical intersections with respect to water scarcity in arid regions.

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Symposium :: Architecture Is All Over :: Feb 12

02/12/2011 - 09:00 - 17:00

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

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ARCHITECTURE THERAPEUTICS AESTHETICS

02/26/2010 - 22:00 - 02/28/2010 - 00:00

This conference will begin the public discourse that will be continued in our new Health Design graduate studies program currently in the planning stages. It begins a dialogue between medicine and aesthetics examining the capacity for design to align evidence with intuition, quantitative analysis with qualitative judgment, science with art. The conference interrogates current ideas and practices defining the role of design in the promotion of health while seeking to foster an appreciation of how the forms of affective and cognitive experience associated with environmental aesthetics may clarify and amplify the goals that motivate therapeutic practices and institutions.

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Innate Terrain

02/06/2010 - 16:22

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.

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Kehilla's Bagels to Bricks Symposium

02/04/2010 - 13:00

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.

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ARCHITECTURE & SPECTACLE IN (POST)SOCIALIST CHINA

11/20/2009 - 09:36 - 11/21/2009 - 09:36

An interdisciplinary workshop on the political economy of architecture and urbanism in contemporary China

www.utoronto.ca/ai/architectureandspectaclechina/

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HYDROCity: A Symposium on Hydrology and Urbanism

11/06/2009 - 12:35

Participants: Alan Berger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Aziza Chaouni (University of Toronto), Jandirk Hoekstra (H+N+S Landscape Architects, Utrecht), Michael Hough (York University), Robert Levit (University of Toronto), Nina-Marie Lister (Ryerson University), Liat Margolis (University of Toronto), Koen Olthuis (Waterstudio.NL, Rotterdam), Katherine Rinne (California College of the Arts), Catherine Seavitt (Catherine Seavitt Studio, New York), Kelly Shannon (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Richard M. Sommer (University of Toronto), David Waggonner (Waggonner & Ball Architects, New Orleans), Mason White (University of Toronto), Jane Wolff (University of Toronto), Robert Wright (University of Toronto)

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FROM JURASSIC PARK TO ROTHKO'S CHAPEL

12/05/2008 (All day)

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.

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