December 1, 2010
MBA Classroom 134, Rotman School of Management
105 St. George Street
University of Toronto

All current Daniels students, faculty, and staff are invited to register free of charge for a session in the upcoming Integrative Thinking Speaker Series at Rotman. Guest speakers Dr. Murray Frum, developer, philanthropist, and art collector and Prof. Brigitte Shim, Partner, Shim Sutcliffe Architects and Professor, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, are featured. (See biographies below.)

Dr. Frum and Prof. Shim will present a “Case Study on Using Integrative Thinking in the Design of the Frum Gallery of African Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.” Following their presentation, there will a question and answer period.

Pre-registration is required to attend: please sign up online at www.rotman.utoronto.ca/dec1 by noon on December 1. Registration check-in will be available from 4:30 to 5:00.

Dress code is business casual.

If you have friends who wish to attend, the registration fees are $99 plus HST per person or $79 plus HST per person for Rotman and U of Toronto alumni. Registration is available online at www.rotman.utoronto.ca/events. 

This speaker series is sponsored by the Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking at Rotman.
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Brigitte Shim was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1958. She was educated at the University of Waterloo where she received degrees in Environmental Studies and Architecture. She has worked on the west coast of Canada with Arthur Erickson and Associates and in Toronto with Baird/Sampson Architects. She is a tenured professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design where she has taught a broad range of architectural design studios and lecture courses since 1988. In the spring of 2002 she was a visiting professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and in the fall of 2001 she was the Bishop Visiting Professor and the Visiting Bicentennial Professor of Canadian Studies at Yale University’s School of Architecture. She has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1999.

Dr. Murray Frum is Chairman and C.E.O. of the Frum Development Group. He is currently Chair of the Ontario Arts Council Foundation, Chair of the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund, a Director of the Toronto Arts Council Foundation and Key Porter Publications. He is also a Governor of the Mount Sinai Hospital; Trustee of the Art Gallery of Ontario; Member of the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science Advisory Board and Stratford Chefs School Advisory Board; Past President of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival and Past Chairman of Saturday Night Magazine. The Frum collection of Primitive Art and Sculpture has been exhibited at the National Gallery Ottawa, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Smithsonian Institute Washington, the National Gallery of Art Washington and the Baltimore Museum of Art. He has recently donated a major part of his collection to the Art Gallery of Ontario.