On December 8th, 2011 Broken City Lab’s Justin A. Langlois and Michelle Soulliere joined Department of Unusual Certainties at the Design Exchange to discuss to discuss the city as a space for creative intervention. Here is a recording of that conversation: DoUC in Conversation with BCL
In the New Year DoUC’s co-founder Brendan Cormier is moving to Amsterdam to become the Managing Editor of Volume Magazine. The studio wishes Brendan much success with this exciting opportunity. The coming year holds much work for DoUC, including the Migrating Landscapes exhibition series which will finish at the 2012 Venice Architectural Biennale opening in August;… [Read more…]
Migrating Landscapes’ Alberta Regional Exhibition is now open at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at the Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary. The exhibition runs Dec 7 – 17. Migrating landscapes is a cross-Canada architectural competition exploring the experience of migration through oral histories and architectural expressions. DoUC is creating ‘preambles’ for each exhibition in the form… [Read more…]
December 6, 2011
by christopherpandolfi
On the weekend of October 11th-13th DoUC took part in the Move Transportation charrette (part of the Move Expo) hosted by Evergreen and the Institute without Boundaries. The Charrette focused on ten different themes all revolving around a core theme of transportation. DoUC was given with the role of lead designers for the Food not… [Read more…]
November 30, 2011
by christopherpandolfi
Department of Unusual Certainties in conversation with Broken City Lab…two practices, one love. A roving night of dialogue focusing on the city as a workplace. When: December 8th 2011 6:30-7:30pm Where: The Design Exchange, 234 Bay Street, Toronto. This is event is pay-what-you-can. Drinks will be served. This is the third instalment of the Design… [Read more…]
November 22, 2011
by christopherpandolfi
DoUC employee Brendan Cormier is at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, on a two-week study residency to plunder their extensive and excellent archive. Research work will focus on two separate projects – rummaging for past speculative works of urban design that focus on the Canadian urban landscape for a special side project called CAUSE (Canadian… [Read more…]
November 19, 2011
by christopherpandolfi
The Fall Issue of Spacing Magazine is all about food and the city. Hunting down remnants of old farms in the city, enjoying culinary treats in strip malls, growing grain in hydro corridors – you can find it all here in this issue. DoUC also contributed something special – a map which looks at the… [Read more…]
DoUC loves Venice. The Department is a strategic partner with Jae-Sung Chon + 5468796 Architecture who are the Migrating Landscapes team that is curating the Canadian Pavilion at the 2012 Architecture Biennial in Venice. In the lead up to Venice Sept 2012 the Migrating Landscapes team are organizing a cross Canada competition/exhibition series asking Canadian architects… [Read more…]
September 27, 2011
by christopherpandolfi
SAUGA 2030 is an iPhone app and installation that looks at a future Mississauga and its public spaces in the year 2030. It debuted at the Art Gallery of Mississauga in the summer of 2011 as a part of the Meet Us On the Commons show. Through demographic and statistical projections, science fiction coppings, and… [Read more…]
September 22, 2011
by christopherpandolfi
Spaces of Negotiation is a sculptural installation that teases apart the complexity of a current labour dispute in Hamilton, ON. One year ago DoUC started a research project about Hamilton focused by a broad question about the use of ‘creative economy’ rhetoric to negate the city’s strong industrial economy. Two months into that project US Steel locked… [Read more…]
August 30, 2011
by christopherpandolfi
DoUC is in the middle of preparations for a show at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre called Hammering Away opening September 9th 2011. Our contribution, called Spaces of Negotiation, looks at the broader landscape in which issues of the lockout between Local 1005 and U.S. Steel take place in the city and abroad. While… [Read more…]
July 15, 2011
by christopherpandolfi
“Sauga 2030″ – DoUC’s foray into science fiction city narratives mediated through smart phone based applications – premieres next week at the Art Gallery of Mississauga as a part of the Meet Us On The Commons show, curated by Elizabeth Underhill. The main product being exhibited is an audio driving tour smart phone application –… [Read more…]
July 7, 2011
by christopherpandolfi
The summer 2011 edition of Harbourfront Centre’s Architecture Room is entitled New City Landscape and features the works of Department of Unusual Certainties, Khoury Levit Fong, David Lieberman, and Jason Van Horne. New City Landscape aims to explore the new role of landscape in urban design thinking – how landscape as a conceptual tool and… [Read more…]
July 6, 2011
by christopherpandolfi
On Thursday June 29, DoUC employee Christopher Pandolfi completed his time at Medialab Prado’s Visualizar ’11 with the presentation of From Extraction to Reaction (final presentation video to follow). You can read the project description below as well as see a demonstration of the final application developed by the project team here. DoUC would like to thank… [Read more…]
June 29, 2011
by christopherpandolfi
The programming team at the Design Exchange have been pulling late hours all week getting ready for the Play Nation show opening this Canada Day. Play Nation looks at the culture of outdoor recreation in Canada, and how our own hinterland has influenced the design of our recreation equipment. DoUC have contributed to the show… [Read more…]
June 27, 2011
by christopherpandolfi
In preparation for DoUC’s contribution to the Art Gallery of Mississauga‘s exhibition Meet Us On The Commons, Department employees Simon Rabyniuk and Brendan Cormier, with Department affiliate and sound wizard Lisa Conway, took a field trip to Mississauga to gather the sounds, noises and tintinabulations that make up the city’s soundscape. The sounds will be… [Read more…]
January 12, 2012
by srabyniuk
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