For immediate release. The winter is finished and with it the first leg of DoUC’s work with Migrating Landscapes…Next stop Venice! In the meantime Spring is a busy season for DoUC…With 5 exhibitions that aim to please. Pre-occupied – featuring Steel not Steal, March 11th – April 1st Jubilee at the Harbourfront Centre, Opening April 20th –… [Read more…]
Migrating Landscapes National exhibition is now open at the Winnipeg Art Gallery running until April 29, 2012. Part whirlwind exhibition, part architectural competition, Migrating Landscapes has been a process to collect regional reflections on how the experience of migration impacts design. Since November 2, 2011 seven regional Migrating Landscapes exhibitions have cropped up across Canada;… [Read more…]
Migrating Landscape Organizers’ seventh and final regional exhibition is now open at Brookfield Place (181 Bay St) in Toronto. The exhibition includes the personal videos and architectural models of more than twenty-five teams of architects. In usual form DoUC has completed a timeline for exhibition exploring the development of Toronto through the lens of migration. Winning models from each… [Read more…]
February 3, 2012
by christopherpandolfi
The following are some DoUC projects you may know but somehow slipped through the cracks. For your viewing pleasure two DoUC projects from long ago. Project 1: World and Home Appeared in Onsite 25 - Identity . An attempt to reflect on Canada’s illustrious past and fledgling present. By comparing Canada’s actions on the world stage and the… [Read more…]
Climate Migrant Pavilion @ IDS 2012 until January 29th Migrating Landscapes Organization has a booth designed and built by Department of Unusual Certainties as a part of IDS 2012′s Offsite Onsite exhibition at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Constructed using ABS piping and tarp, it is light, easy to erect, collapse, and move to its next… [Read more…]
Its been a busy week for the Migrating Landscapes Organizers with three regional exhibitions opening. On Monday, January 16th, the Atlantic Canada exhibition opened at Dalhousie School of Architecture in Halifax. Wednesday, January 18, the Québec exhibition opened at Parisian Laundry in Montréal. The week was rounded out with the Saskatchewan exhibition opening at the Mendal Art Gallery in Saskatoon on January… [Read more…]
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…]
April 3, 2012
by christopherpandolfi
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