DesignTO Festival 2024
2023.12.06
DesignTO Festival: 2024 is the 2024 edition of Canada’s leading and largest annual design festival that celebrates design as a multidisciplinary form of creative thinking and making, with 100+ free exhibitions, talks, tours, workshops and installations forming Toronto’s design week every January.
The 2024 edition marks the online and in-person festival's 14th anniversary, which explores industrial, interior, furniture experience and graphic design, as well as architecture and craft.
【 DesignTO Festival: 2024 Standout Events 】
- Ideas Forum: Architecture of Imagined Spaces: Features five fast-paced presentations (20 slides shown for 20 seconds each) exploring the intersection of real and virtual built environments.
-Urban Affairs Forum | Shaping Public Spaces: Community Engagement: an evening of discussion and debate exploring the important role community engagement plays in shaping public projects.
- ‘BLOOD, WATER & BATHURST STREET’ (BW&B): a participatory, textile-based mapping project by Naomi Daryn Boyd that explores the histories, communities, and journeys that have shaped these lands.
- Odami on Aesop Yorkville: A discussion with Toronto-based design studio Odami on their design sensibilities, focus of their practice and inspiration behind Aesop Yorkville.
DesignTO 2024 takes place from 19 to 28 January 2024 at various locations across Toronto, Canada.
【 About DesignTO 】
DesignTO is a non-profit arts organization that curates exhibitions, presentations and educational programming to increase the public’s knowledge and appreciation of design and its role in creating a sustainable, just and joyful world. The Festival happens online and in-person at venues across the City of Toronto. Most events and exhibitions are free, but some require a RSVP or purchased tickets. All window installations are viewable from the outdoors.
View the 2024 Festival Schedule here: https://designto.org/2024-festival-schedule/
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▪ Source:
- Ontario Association of Architects｜https://www.oaa.on.ca/whats-on/events-calendar/event-detail/designTO-festival-2024
- Dezeen｜https://www.dezeen.com/eventsguide/2024/01/designto-2024/
▪ Words: Ontario Association of Architects & Dezeen
▪ Photography Credit: © DesignTO
