Our Current Outreach Programming
Through our new One Spadina Crescent building, the Daniels Faculty has the unique opportunity to serve our community as a true hub for art, design, and city-building. We are expanding our public programming to include two new areas: the Daniels Summer Academy, which will include youth programming for a variety of age groups, and the Daniels Summer Institute, which will include lifelong learning opportunities such as professional development and design education. To read more about each program, and for information on registration, click on the links below or on the sidebar.

Daniels Summer Academy
> Daniels Bits & Bytes (ages 9-11) 
> Daniels DigiFab (ages 12-14)

Daniels Summer Institute
> Daniels Bootcamp: Exploring Careers in Design (High School & Undergraduate Students)
> Daniels Professional Development (Architects and Intern Architects)

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Creating an Engaged Campus at 1 Spadina
The Daniels Faculty has always been committed to our community by collaborating in a wide variety of ways. To further efforts in this area, a dedicated role has been created to support these initiatives. How does Daniels engage with our community? We're inspired by Furco's*model of the engaged campus across the tripartite mission of higher education including teaching, research and service.

a = Community-Based Learning
Teaching/learning that is directly connected to or occurs in the community or field.

• Field studies, Internships, Professional Practice, Project-based learning.

b = Community-Based Research
Research activities that are focused on community issues; the research activities may or may not be based in the community.

• Community-based research, Social research, Applied research.

c = Community Service and Outreach
The engagement of students, faculty and staff in community-based activities that are designed intentionally to provide a genuine service to the community.

• Community service, Volunteerism, Outreach programmes, Community and governmental relations.

d = Community-based Capstone Experiences
Teaching/learning experiences that include a strong research component and are directly connected to or occur in the community.

• Community-based capstone experiences, Community-based student research projects, Course-based community-based research projects.

e = Service-Learning
Course-based teaching and learning activities that engage students in the community both to
provide a service that meets a community need, and to enhance students’ learning of the course content.

• Academic service-learning, Co-curricular service-learning, Service-based internships.

f = Participatory Action Research
Community-focused or community-based research activities that are designed to directly serve an identified community need.

• Action research, Participatory action research.

g = Community Service-based Capstone Experiences
Teaching/learning experiences that include a strong research component, and which seek to provide service to the community to address an important, identified community need.

• Community service-based capstone projects.

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Interested in Collaborating?
Contact Nene Brode, Manager External Relations & Outreach at 416-824-9257 or nene.brode@daniels.utoronto.ca

*Furco, Andrew. "The engaged campus: Toward a comprehensive approach to public engagement." British Journal of Educational Studies 58.4 (2010): 375-390.