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; with upcoming exhibitions in Halifax, Montreal, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Winnipeg. Stay posted, more projects to be announced later.
The Dept.’s Christopher Pandolfi and Simon Rabyniuk are pleased to be joined by collaborators Amy Peebles, Natasha Basacchi, and Aliya Tejani. DoUC has been working with Amy for the past year. She has provided excellent research support on numerous projects. Currently Amy is heading up the Dept’s fund raising efforts with Migrating Landscapes. Natasha and Aliya started working with the studio at the start of Migrating Landscapes and have been contributing to the research and layout of the timelines.
We are excited to see how the ever present End Times of 2012 will unfold.
Amy Peebles is the Creative Director of Urban Synergies, a small consulting firm specializing in arts and culture based community engagement. Her passion for community planning came from a childhood spent overseas observing the beautifully hospitable and resourceful cultures in Indonesia and Cambodia, as well as completing a Bachelors Degree of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University. She has had the great pleasure of working in Guyana from September 2010 to March of this year, bringing the practice of community planning to the forefront alongside the Central Housing and Planning Authority. An avid wanderer and writer, you can check out her ramblings at www.urbansynergies.ca.
Natasha Basacchi grew up in Richmond Hill, Ontario until moving to Toronto to attend Ryerson University. She graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Architectural Science. Her thesis focused on incremental housing for the displaced population of Tbilisi, Georgia. The following year and a half she worked with the City of Toronto in the Employment and Social Services division, in both Ontario Works and Employment Centre offices. Natasha is currently volunteering for SKETCH, an arts initiative for street-involved and homeless youth, and the DoUC. She is excited to be back in a creative setting and looking forward expanding her design portfolio with the DoUC.
Aliya Tejani is a recent graduate of York University’s Master in Environmental Studies (Planning) program. Aliya also has a B.Sc. in Physiology and a Diploma in Environmental Studies from McGill University. Always trying to use her interdisciplinary brain, she is interested in the formation of variegated urban spaces that merge cultural and natural processes in innovative ways through the use of design. She is motivated by social and environmental justice issues, and has been involved with numerous grassroots organizations throughout the years. Inspired by DoUC’s work, she strives to use creativity as a mechanism for social change. In her spare time, she helps a downtown community group in resolving some of their urban planning issues, volunteers with Project Neutral, and serves as a peer reviewer for the Plan Canada publication.
Posted on December 21, 2011 by srabyniuk
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