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Houses on Pengarth

Row houses on Pengarth Court will be converted into a multi-purpose art centre providing the community with a unique space for creative and civic engagement. Houses on Pengarth undertakes to stage a temporary Museum and experimental art lab in four houses slated for eventual demolition at Pengarth Court in Lawrence Heights. Taken together, the houses […]

Urban Field Speaker Series 2013 (eighth season)

Get your 2013 pass and 2013 gift passes now, while quantities last! Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is proud to present the eighth season of the Urban Field Speakers Series. This international lecture series brings together an array of global and local participants, including artists, architects, curators, designers and scholars, who offer unique perspectives on […]

Urban Field Speaker Series 2011 & 2012 Now Available

2011 2012 The Urban Field Speaker Series centres on the role of art in transforming the experience of the city. Through lectures, audio-visual presentations and discussions, it explores how creative practices can help improve the quality of urban life and planning in Toronto and around the world. This series of montly events bring together an […]

Working Papers - Winter 2011

Join us at: Of Swallows, their deeds, and the winter below, 283 College Street, Toronto. Monday February 28th, 7:00pm “New York/New York – New American ‘Smart’ film and its Nostalgic New York Cities” Tom Dorey PhD Candidate, Communication and Culture, York/Ryerson University New York City has, since some of the earliest American films, played and […]

Waste Luxury Knot: an experiment in organized curiosity.

You are invited to participate in waste luxury knot: an experiment in organized curiosity. Via a series of intimate workshops & public addresses with Franco Berardi (bifo), Jeanne Randolph, Allan Stoekl, and Robert Hullot-Kentor. Across the months of March, April, and May. To wonder about the gravy train, post-fordist luxury, austerity measures waste and - […]

Urban Field Speaker Series 2011 (sixth season)

The Urban Field Speakers Series, now in its sixth season, centres on the role of art in transforming the experience of the city. Through lectures, audio-visual presentations and discussions, it explores how creative practices can help improve the quality of urban life and planning in Toronto and around the world. This series of monthly events […]

Working Papers 2010

The Visible City Project + Archive presents its fall Working Papers, beginning Thursday October 28th. Working Papers will be held at OF SWALLOWS, 283 College Street. Please join us for presentations and discussion. Thursday October 28th, 7:00pm “Walking as a way of knowing, advocating and performing: between social justice and sustainability in Southern Ontario’s food […]

Visible City: Project + Archive is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaCanada Research Chairs, York Research, Ontario Innovation Trust, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.