Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry (this time: Adrian Blackwell, Greig de Peuter, Christine Shaw, & Marcelo Vieta)
Entangled Territories, an event organized by Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry (in this case, Adrian Blackwell, Greig de Peuter, Christine Shaw, and Marcelo Vieta) as Act 16 of the Public Acts project, was held within Adrian Blackwell’s [...]
From the urbanists at Spacing Magazine, blog, etc. comes an urban ideas competition for individuals and groups no older than 35:
thinkTORONTO invites people 35 years old or younger with creative ideas on how to improve Toronto’s public spaces. The competition will help celebrate the magazine’s 5th anniversary in December 2008. Architects, urban planners, landscape architects, [...]
Kingwell’s recent article in Walrus Magazine describes some of the ironies of the creative (i.e. bourgeois bohemian or “bobo”) class in cities like Toronto. He suggests that the political dimension of cities is lacking in our Richard Florida-informed “creative economy,” and that justice must be rethought and reconsidered. An excerpt:
The hucksters and tourism shills [...]