pening Reception: Saturday, May 15, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

This exhibition presents a range of speculative design works at the city scale that share commonality in their engagement with technology. Technology in these ‘Experiments for the City’ is explored in different measures through the engagement with the following disciplinary interests:

• Experimentation with digital design technique; in particular, parametric modeling and time-based digital simulation
• Re-investigation of the structuralist urban architecture of the 1960s and 1970s
• The invention and deployment of context-dependent urban forms and systems

The Dubai and Ontario Place projects form the main axis of the work. These are student projects from several of Professor Tom Bessai’s graduate level design studios at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto.  Each investigates central waterfront conditions in the context of evolving urban fabric. The Las Vegas Seam andMirvish projects are the work of Denegri Bessai Studio and Denegri Bessai Studio with North Design Office landscape architects respectively, and compliment the exploration of these themes each in its own way and in its own particular context.

The collected projects are presented as a speculative synthesis of emerging strands of the ‘technological’ as explored in the city.

Please click here for the Exhibition Invitation [PDF].

Projects:

Shabnam Hosseini, Hamish Rhodes

Joseph Yau, Ingmar Mak

Carmine Rotundo, Gerard Gutierrez

Steven Beites, Richard Sole

Mae Shaban, Mehreen Mujib, 

Arthur Tseng, Elaine Tong

Michael Carlile, Peter Darmos, Darryl Biedron, Ben Villani

Denegri Bessai Studio, North Design Office

Curated by Tom Bessai

Exhibition Design and Production by Vjosana Shkurti, Fred Thwainy, Kostika Lala

Presented with the Department of Art, Visual Studies Program, University of Toronto