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Registration for Orphan Spaces is now open!
Please contact daniela@dx.org
about spectator sign-up
Orphan Spaces: Priority Neighbourhoods:
Designing Spaces with Young Adults - Fall 2006
This fall, Orphan Spaces is presented as part of
the 2006 Universal Design Professional Development Series:
designing spaces with young adults and World Town Planning
Day.
Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Time: 9:30-5:00pm
Place: Patty Watt Room, 3rd floor, Design Exchange, 234
Bay Street
Fee: The 2006 Orphan Spaces Series is offered free of charge
This one day Orphan Spaces workshop centered around
designing spaces with young adults involves 5 priority neighbourhoods
in the City of Toronto, and multi-disciplinary teams, each
made up of approximately 2 young adults from each neighbourhood
in focus and 4 designers/artists etc..
Participating partners, DX, the City of Toronto and Ian
Chodikoff (Editor, Canadian Architect), will rely on young
adults to define and outline the challenges and concerns
they perceive in their neighbourhoods prior to the workshop
and will have them share their thoughts, and work in consultation
with their design team members on November 8. Teams will
work towards strategies and solutions to improve the chosen
neighbourhoods.
Teams will be involved in exploratory and planning activities
and will focus on the culture of different neighbourhoods
and work with various diversities throughout each chosen
neighbourhood. With this workshop, we aim to bridge the
gap between the thought processes and ideas of young adults
and design/sustainability experts, and as a result, meet
the needs of communities through collaborative design processes.
Results of the workshop will be exhibited at Design Exchange
in March 2007.
Participant Information:
o Registration deadline is October 26, 2006. Please register
early - space is limited. Click here to download registration
form.
o Please register individually. DX will aim to create multi-disciplinary
teams.
o For this offering we encourage industrial designers, landscape
architects, architects, planners, way-finding and sustainability
experts and artists to register but ALL design professionals,
community members, etc. are welcome.
o Participants will be notified prior to the workshop of
their neighbourhood/site and will be encouraged to visit
their site prior to the workshop on November 8, 2006.
o Teamwork and presentations will be a key component of
the workshop.
o Visual and oral presentations should reflect the dynamic
of multi-disciplinary teamwork.
o Teams must address the principles of sustainable design
and universal design in their project visions/presentations.
o Teams will work towards creating practical design solutions
that require modest or realistic capital costs, cost effective
and cost-efficient long-term maintenance and/or life-cycle
cost analysis.
o Teams will identify potential community, business and
government partners /supporters who can assist in the possible
implementation of their project.
o Teams will create a timeline for possible implementation.
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