Daniels / en 老司机直播's One Spadina Crescent: merging the past with the future /news/u-t-s-one-spadina-crescent-merging-past-future <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">老司机直播's One Spadina Crescent: merging the past with the future</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2017-05-08-one-spadina.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=jbcNeUm4 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2017-05-08-one-spadina.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=Tf8ku2fG 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2017-05-08-one-spadina.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=jprdBVfQ 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2017-05-08-one-spadina.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=jbcNeUm4" alt="one spadina"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>ullahnor</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2017-05-08T17:41:34-04:00" title="Monday, May 8, 2017 - 17:41" class="datetime">Mon, 05/08/2017 - 17:41</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">鈥淭he Globe and Mail鈥 writes about the new home of the University of Toronto鈥檚 Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design (photo by Tom Ryaboi) </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/daniels" hreflang="en">Daniels</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/architecture" hreflang="en">Architecture</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/one-spadina-crescent" hreflang="en">One Spadina Crescent</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/cities" hreflang="en">Cities</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/landscape-design" hreflang="en">Landscape &amp; Design</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>The Globe and Mail</em>'s Alex Bozikovic&nbsp;calls the new home of the University of Toronto鈥檚 Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design 鈥渙ne of the best Canadian buildings of the past decade.鈥</p> <p>鈥淯p front, the old Knox College is all Victorian adornment, an array of gables, turrets and lancet arches,鈥 writes Bozikovic, of One Spadina, an&nbsp;1875 building, designed by Smith &amp; Gemmell as a Presbyterian seminary. 鈥淏ut around back it has a very different vibe. A long, flat glass fa莽ade pulls in northern light. Green roofs feed on rainwater. Zigzagging concrete forms say, in their own language: Welcome to 2017.鈥&nbsp;</p> <p>He says the building is 鈥渟pectacular....rich with arguments about how contemporary architecture, landscape and urbanism can work with history and build the city of the future.鈥</p> <h3><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/architecture/spectacular-new-home-of-u-of-ts-daniels-faculty-merges-past-andfuture/article34906578/">Read more at&nbsp;the <em>Globe&nbsp;</em></a></h3> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__4545 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" src="/sites/default/files/one-spadina-embed.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 500px; margin: 10px;" typeof="foaf:Image"><br> North facing side of One Spadina Crescent (photo by&nbsp;Nic Lehoux)&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 08 May 2017 21:41:34 +0000 ullahnor 107489 at 老司机直播 interdisciplinary projects receive funding from relaunched Connaught Global Challenge Award /news/u-t-interdisciplinary-projects-receive-funding-relaunched-connaught-global-challenge-award <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">老司机直播 interdisciplinary projects receive funding from relaunched Connaught Global Challenge Award</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2017-02-13-connaught-global.jpg?h=58088d8b&amp;itok=pmm6zBcn 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2017-02-13-connaught-global.jpg?h=58088d8b&amp;itok=ZdRAmEJ6 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2017-02-13-connaught-global.jpg?h=58088d8b&amp;itok=PH2seKAU 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2017-02-13-connaught-global.jpg?h=58088d8b&amp;itok=pmm6zBcn" alt="Photo of David Lie, brent Sleep, Mark Fox"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>ullahnor</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2017-02-13T10:41:02-05:00" title="Monday, February 13, 2017 - 10:41" class="datetime">Mon, 02/13/2017 - 10:41</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">老司机直播 research teams led by David Lie, Brent Sleep and Mark Fox are winners of this year's Connaught Global Challenge Award (photo composite by Geoff Agnew)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/our-community" hreflang="en">Our Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/connaught-fund" hreflang="en">Connaught Fund</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/connaught-global-challenge" hreflang="en">Connaught Global Challenge</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/urban-genome" hreflang="en">Urban Genome</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/rotman" hreflang="en">Rotman</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/utsc" hreflang="en">UTSC</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/daniels" hreflang="en">Daniels</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/oise" hreflang="en">OISE</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/law" hreflang="en">Law</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Three teams at the University of Toronto that are trying to resolve globally pressing issues are sharing $750,000 in funding from the recently retooled <a href="https://alerts.research.utoronto.ca/index.php/alert/view_alert/1458">Connaught Global Challenge Award</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>The relaunched internal award, funded by the Connaught Fund, is designed to support new collaborations involving leading 老司机直播 researchers and students from multiple disciplines, along with innovators and thought leaders from other sectors.</p> <p>This funding boost will help these programs get off the ground and help them find major new external funding to further develop solutions to the global challenge, forge important new partnerships with other internationally renowned universities and government agencies, as well as possibly create new research-oriented academic programs.</p> <p>鈥淚鈥檇 like to congratulate all of the recipients of this year鈥檚 Connaught Global Challenge Award,鈥 said Professor <strong>Vivek Goel</strong>, 老司机直播鈥檚 vice-president of research and innovation.</p> <p>鈥淭hese projects all tackle immensely important and complicated global problems. The Connaught Fund understands that to find solutions, it needs to provide funding to support interdisciplinary collaboration at 老司机直播. Each of our teams is committed to expanding connections with faculty in relevant divisions across all three campuses.鈥</p> <p>The recipients of this year鈥檚 Connaught Global Challenge Award are:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>鈥淭he Information Technology, Transparency, and Transformation (IT3) Lab鈥 led by <strong>David Lie</strong>, professor<strong>&nbsp;</strong>of electrical &amp; computer engineering at the Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering. The team includes fellow 老司机直播 researchers from the Faculty of Law and Rotman School of Management, as well as collaborators from Princeton University, Harvard University, Tel Aviv University, Google, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and more.</li> <li>鈥淣etwork for Engineering Education for Sustainable African Cities (NEESAC)鈥 led by <strong>Brent Sleep</strong>, professor of civil engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering. The team includes 老司机直播 researchers from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE),&nbsp;Faculty of Arts &amp; Science,&nbsp;Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering&nbsp;and the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, as well as collaborators from the University of Victoria, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, a number of African institutions&nbsp;and more.</li> <li>鈥淭he Urban Genome Project鈥 led by <strong>Mark Fox</strong>, 老司机直播鈥檚 distinguished professor of urban systems engineering at the Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering. The team includes 老司机直播 researchers with expertise in history,&nbsp;big data and transportation from&nbsp;the Rotman School of Management, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, Faculty of Arts &amp; Science&nbsp;and the University of Toronto Scarborough.</li> </ul> <h3><a href="/news/performance-enhancing-drug-cities-u-of-t-urban-genome-project">Read more about the Urban Genome Project</a></h3> <p>To be considered, Global Challenge teams must represent new collaborations involving leading 老司机直播 researchers and students from multiple disciplines, along with innovators and thought leaders from other sectors. Each year, up to $750,000 will be awarded to a maximum of three applications.&nbsp;</p> <p>The <a href="https://alerts.research.utoronto.ca/index.php/alert/view_alert/1458">application</a> deadline for the next round of funding is June 1, 2017.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:41:02 +0000 ullahnor 104950 at Eberhard Zeidler Library, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design /node/8733 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Eberhard Zeidler Library, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>sgupta</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2016-01-07T15:47:19-05:00" title="Thursday, January 7, 2016 - 15:47" class="datetime">Thu, 01/07/2016 - 15:47</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-url field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">URL</div> <div class="field__item">https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/resources/library/eberhard-zeidler-library</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-above clearfix"> <h3 class="field__label">Tags</h3> <ul class="links field__items"> <li><a href="/news/tags/daniels" hreflang="en">Daniels</a></li> <li><a href="/news/tags/architecture" hreflang="en">Architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/news/tags/landscape" hreflang="en">landscape</a></li> <li><a href="/news/tags/design" hreflang="en">Design</a></li> <li><a href="/news/tags/libraries" hreflang="en">Libraries</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Campus</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6953" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> Thu, 07 Jan 2016 20:47:19 +0000 sgupta 8733 at Under the expressway: the vision behind 鈥渢he gift of the Gardiner鈥 /news/under-expressway-vision-behind-gift-gardiner <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Under the expressway: the vision behind 鈥渢he gift of the Gardiner鈥</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>sgupta</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2015-12-03T12:18:56-05:00" title="Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 12:18" class="datetime">Thu, 12/03/2015 - 12:18</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">(photo courtesy Harry Choi Photography) </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/alan-christie" hreflang="en">Alan Christie</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Alan Christie</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/top-stories" hreflang="en">Top Stories</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/trinity-college" hreflang="en">Trinity College</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/daniels" hreflang="en">Daniels</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/cities" hreflang="en">Cities</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/alumni" hreflang="en">老司机直播</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">Judy Matthews, Ken Greenberg and the transformation of public spaces</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>For <strong>Judy Matthews</strong>, the Gardiner Expressway is 鈥渓ike our Berlin Wall, to be taken down psychologically and re-invented in a way that makes it a place for people.鈥</p> <p>Matthews and her husband Will are donating&nbsp;$25 million to finance the transformation of a 1.75 kilometre stretch under the Gardiner. They want to transform it from a desolate, unused area into a place where people can walk, cycle, meet friends and one day even shop for fresh vegetables.&nbsp;</p> <p>When the new public space is created it will stretch from just west of Strachan Ave. to Spadina Ave.&nbsp;City Council鈥檚 executive committee unanimously endorsed the plan on Dec. 1 and council is expected to approve it on Dec. 9.</p> <p>Matthews, who graduated from Trinity College in 1978, and architect <strong>Ken Greenberg</strong> spoke with <em>老司机直播 News</em> at Hart House.</p> <p>鈥淭he Gardiner has been a negative in our DNA for 50 or 60 years,鈥 Matthews&nbsp;said. 鈥淚t has always been for cars, and we are going to do a 21st century remake for people 鈥 put the cars up above and people below.鈥&nbsp;</p> <p>She produced a picture of the underside of the Gardiner. The area 鈥渋s fabulous, majestic really, like a cathedral,鈥 Matthews&nbsp;said.</p> <p>鈥淲hen you see it vacant and neglected, you can realize the enormous potential.鈥</p> <p>(<em>Photo below courtesy Harry Choi Photography</em>)</p> <p><img alt="photo of the underside of the expressway" src="/sites/default/files/2015-12-04-gardiner-two.jpg" style="width: 625px; height: 417px; margin: 10px 30px;"></p> <p>Greenberg, the lead urban designer and the Matthews鈥 representative on the project, overseeing all of its aspects, called it 鈥渢he gift of the Gardiner.</p> <p>鈥淢ore people now, since we announced this project, are seeing the Gardiner with new eyes. It鈥檚 been there all the time hiding in plain sight, and we have taken it for granted. The idea of having a roof giving you weather protection over 1.7 kilometres is quite incredible.鈥</p> <p>(<em>Photo below courtesy Stephanie E. Calvet</em>)</p> <p><img alt="artist's rendering of Under the Gardiner at night" src="/sites/default/files/2015-12-04-Under-Gardiner-three.jpg" style="width: 625px; height: 414px; margin: 10px 30px;"></p> <p>Stretching five stories from the ground to the bottom of the expressway itself, the space would be divided up into 55 areas. Greenberg calls it a 鈥渃ity living room.鈥&nbsp;</p> <p>Both Matthews and Greenberg, who still mentors grad students at 老司机直播's&nbsp;&nbsp;John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, say the project will be a catalyst for others to create more usable urban space.</p> <p>鈥淭his is opening a whole new avenue for philanthropy in the city,鈥 Greenberg said, 鈥渟omething that has happened in other cities but not as much here.&nbsp;</p> <p>鈥淛udy and Will are pioneers. People are discovering that philanthropy aimed at creating projects that contribute to the environment, public health, to people鈥檚 general well-being is just as important as contributions to museums, or hospitals, or other cultural centres.鈥&nbsp;</p> <h2><a href="http://news.utoronto.ca/civic-leader-judy-matthews-three-things-toronto-needs">Read more about Judy Matthews</a></h2> <p>The Gardiner, Matthews said 鈥渋s pre-ordained to stay,鈥 suggesting that the dozens of condominiums so close to the expressway couldn鈥檛 be removed without enormous costs. 鈥淲e have to be very cognizant of the people鈥 who live in those condos. 鈥淭heir input will be crucial to our success.鈥</p> <p>(<em>Artist's rendering below courtesy Public Work</em>)</p> <p><img alt="artist's rendering of Under the Gardiner in summer" src="/sites/default/files/2015-12-04-gardiner-View-East-at-Strachan-Gate.jpg" style="width: 625px; height: 288px; margin: 10px 30px;"></p> <p>Greenberg is working with designers Adam Nicklin and Marc Ryan of Public Work, the landscape firm that worked on 老司机直播鈥檚 One Spadina Crescent renovation. &nbsp;The project is being built by Waterfront Toronto which will hold public hearings in January, with the expectation that tenders will go out for construction next spring.</p> <p>鈥淭his is not a stand-alone project,鈥 Greenberg said, 鈥淚t is intimately woven into everything around it,鈥 including the neighbourhoods of Liberty Village, Fort York, the Bathurst Quay and City Place, where two schools and community centre will be built.&nbsp;</p> <p>By 2017 most of the work will be completed including a pedestrian/cycle bridge over Fort York Blvd. and another trail to Spadina. 鈥淥ne exists there now but we are going to improve it.鈥</p> <p>When completed, the area will be a place 鈥渨here you can come out, meet a friend, have a coffee and watch the kids play,鈥 Matthews said. 鈥淵ou can hear some music, go to a market, get fresh vegetables and in the winter make it a winterfest theme with a skating rink.鈥</p> <p>(<em>Artist's rendering below courtesy Public Work</em>)</p> <p><img alt="artist's rendering for Under Gardiner at winter" src="/sites/default/files/2015-12-04-gardiner-View-East-at-Fort-York-Blvd_Winter.jpg" style="width: 625px; height: 288px; margin: 10px 30px;"></p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-picpath field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">picpath</div> <div class="field__item">sites/default/files/2015-12-04-gardiner-lead.jpg</div> </div> Thu, 03 Dec 2015 17:18:56 +0000 sgupta 7499 at 老司机直播's Christine Shaw curates 鈥渃an't-miss鈥 Nuit Blanche exhibit /news/u-ts-christine-shaw-curates-cant-miss-nuit-blanche-exhibit <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">老司机直播's Christine Shaw curates 鈥渃an't-miss鈥 Nuit Blanche exhibit</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>sgupta</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2015-10-02T05:35:34-04:00" title="Friday, October 2, 2015 - 05:35" class="datetime">Fri, 10/02/2015 - 05:35</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item"> Black Cloud 2007 by Carlos Morales, which features a swarm of 30,000 black paper moths (all images courtesy Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2015)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/blake-eligh" hreflang="en">Blake Eligh</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Blake Eligh</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/features" hreflang="en">Features</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/utm" hreflang="en">UTM</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/scotiabank-nuit-blanche" hreflang="en">Scotiabank Nuit Blanche</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/daniels" hreflang="en">Daniels</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/art" hreflang="en">Art</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">Exhibit includes work by Professor Charles Stankievech</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Hot lava, a human glacier and thousands of paper moths are just a few of the sights you鈥檒l see this weekend if you head into Toronto for the annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche artfest.</p> <p>This year marks the tenth anniversary of the annual all-night traveling art walk, with an exhibit roster that includes more than 110 works by nearly 400 artists on display at indoor and outdoor locations around downtown Toronto.</p> <h3><a href="http://news.utoronto.ca/light-night-u-t-scotiabank-nuit-blanche">Read more about Nuit Blanche at the University of Toronto's downtown campus</a></h3> <p><img alt="photo of Christine Shaw" src="/sites/default/files/2015-10-02-Christine-Shaw--sized.jpg" style="width: 245px; height: 342px; margin: 10px; float: right;">For the first time in the event鈥檚 history, Nuit Blanche will embrace the city鈥檚 waterfront, with a city-sponsored exhibit curated by <strong>Christine Shaw&nbsp;</strong>(pictured at right),&nbsp;director and curator of 老司机直播 Mississauga鈥檚 Blackwood Gallery and a lecturer with UTM鈥檚 Visual Studies program.</p> <p><em>The Toronto Star</em>'s Murray Whyte said the program 鈥減rovides much of the meat of Nuit Blanche鈥 in <a href="http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2015/08/25/burn-the-shirt-you-wore-when-you-got-fired-at-nuit-blanche-2015.html">his article on events to watch for</a> this year.</p> <p>鈥淪ure to be ominous, spectacular and a little scary, it鈥檚 probably a good thing it鈥檚 down on Sugar Beach; should an urgent cooling be needed, the lake is just a step away.鈥</p> <p>(Read how&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2015/08/25/burn-the-shirt-you-wore-when-you-got-fired-at-nuit-blanche-2015.html"><em>The Toronto Star</em> named The Work of the Wind as one of the 10 can鈥檛-miss stops</a> on the Nuit Blanche route.)</p> <p>Wind is a series of 13 separate but related artworks inspired by the Beaufort wind force scale, a qualitative measurement used by the British Royal Navy to describe the effects of wind upon the sails of a frigate. A calm day with no wind (Beaufort 0) features a 鈥渟ea like a mirror; smoke rises vertically.鈥&nbsp;Under stormy gusts (Beaufort 10), 鈥渢he tumbling of the sea becomes heavy; trees uprooted, structural damage occurs.鈥&nbsp;Drawing on the language of the scale&nbsp;鈥 drifting, tumbling, scattering, swaying, impeding, damaging, breaking, uprooting&nbsp;鈥&nbsp;The Work of Wind unfurls 13 forces as artworks, from Beaufort 0 (Calm) to Beaufort 12 (Hurricane), along Toronto's shoreline at locations along Queens Quay between Parliament Street and Lower Simcoe Street.</p> <p>Shaw has organized large-scale collections before, including Public Acts 1-29, a collection of 29 works along the Trans-Canada Highway between British Columbia and New Brunswick. When Shaw discovered the Beaufort scale&nbsp;鈥&nbsp;鈥渢he most exquisite 110 words ever written,鈥 she says she knew it 鈥渨as full of potential for experimentation.鈥&nbsp;</p> <p>鈥淪o many forces impact us that we can鈥檛 see, like climate change or global currency,鈥 Shaw says. 鈥淭his is about harnessing the power of art to make the invisible visible, and the inaudible audible.鈥</p> <p>鈥淚 hope audiences the force of the wind,鈥 she says. 鈥淚 hope they get caught up in the operatic experience, from floating in the sky to the impact of an explosion, and feel the connection between each of these pieces.鈥</p> <p>Works in the series include a 12-hour lava flow, a 75-person human glacier, floating and video projection installations, and a <a href="http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1563">swarm of 30,000 black paper moths</a>. The exhibit showcases a dozen artists and collectives, including Tim Knowles, whose work is also featured in the current Blackwood exhibit <a href="http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/exhibitions/2015/ThePen.html#talk">The Pen Moves Across the Earth</a>, <a href="http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1562">老司机直播 professor <strong>Charles Stankievech</strong></a>, director of the visual studies program in the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, and <strong>Christof Migone</strong>, former director and curator of the Blackwood Gallery. UTM students in Shaw鈥檚 Visual Arts summer internship course assisted with development of the exhibition.</p> <p>The Work of the Wind, a selection of artworks, includes:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1557">Beaufort 0: Cumulus</a> is a video installation by Tom谩s Saraceno that explores the idea of living in the clouds. (Victoria Soya Mills Silos, Parliament Street)</li> <li><a href="http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1558">Beaufort 1: Dispersal Zone</a> by Knowles will see smoke billowing from the streetlights, providing a cloudlike interplay with the air currents and atmosphere. (Artscape, Gibralter Point)</li> <li><a href="http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1568">Beaufort 3: Glaciology</a>, a performance piece by The Anandam Dancetheatre, will evoke the flow of glaciers and the shifting of humanity as 75 dancers travel along Queens Quay. (369 Lake Shore East to Lower Simcoe Street)</li> <li><a href="http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1559">Beaufort 4: Lava Field No. 2</a>. by Robert Wysocki includes a mobile coke-fired volcano that will spill lava across the parking lot at George Brown College for 12 hours. (51 Dockside Drive)</li> <li><a href="http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1565">Beaufort 11: The Cleaving</a> by British duo Ivan and Heather Morison, features a rubble barricade across Queens Quay East (at Lower Jarvis).</li> </ul> <p>Scotiabank Nuit Blanche runs from Saturday, October 3 from 6:55 p.m until sunrise on Sunday, October 4. Find The Work of the Wind along Toronto鈥檚 waterfront, between Parliament Street and Harbourfront Centre.</p> <p><a href="http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/2015-event/exhibitions/work-of-wind.html">Read more about The Work of the Wind and Nuit Blanche</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>(<em>Blake Eligh is a writer with the University of Toronto Mississauga</em>)</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-picpath field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">picpath</div> <div class="field__item">sites/default/files/2015-10-01-black-swarm.jpg</div> </div> Fri, 02 Oct 2015 09:35:34 +0000 sgupta 7320 at