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Public Places March 7 – April 20, 2013 | Mississauga, ON Commissioned by the Art Gallery of Mississauga in partnership with the Mississauga Library System Part of the Roots and Branches exhibition Over the last six months Department of Unusual Certainties (DoUC) has been travelling across Mississauga with a question asking device. We have been seeking insight […]
February 17, 2013
Join us for the final debate in the New Discourses series. On Wednesday February 20, starting at 7:30pm Chris Schafer and Alistair Newton (con block) will join Niomi Cherney and Norm Jezioranski (pro block) in unpacking the statement: “Be it resolved Canadians are committed to building a just society.” Here is one man’s vision: “It […]
February 1, 2013
Winner of the the Toronto Design Offsite Festival’s Viewers’ Choice Award Department of Unusual Certainties, working in cooperation with Thea Jones, have won big. Their installation, All the parties you’ve never been invited to… (ATP…) , has won the Viewers’ Choice Award for Best Event at the Toronto Design Offsite Festival. ATP…, framed the dance floor, of the […]
January 25, 2013
Department of Unusual Certainties & Thea Jones invite you to… ALL OF THE PARTIES YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN INVITED TO BEFORE Department of Unusual Certainties would like to invite you to the Love Design Party January 26th, 10pm at the Gladstone Hotel, where they will be presenting their video installation All of the parties you have never […]
January 16, 2013
The third instalment of the New Discourses for a Tired Century debate series is on Monday January 21, 7:30pm @ the Gladstone Hotel. Marcin Kedzior and Thomas Provost (for the resolution) will meet Kristina Ljubanovic and Sabrina Dominguez (against the resolution) in consideration of this month’s resolution: “Be it resolved, we can no longer conceive of the city as a whole.” New […]
November 16, 2012
NEW DISCOURSES FOR A TIRED CENTURY: A debate series 7:30 PM November 19th at the Gladstone Hotel. Over the next 5 months The Department of Unusual Certainties is hosting the debate series New Discourses for a Tired Century at the Gladstone Hotel. Over the course of this series 16 illuminated voices, coming from a range […]
October 16, 2012
Department of Unusual Certainties presents NEW DISCOURSES FOR A TIRED CENTURY: a debate series October 23rd, at the Gladstone Hotel. Is the future hopeless?… Is the democratic process in Canada in crisis?… Can we understand the city as whole?… Are Canadians committed to building a just society?… Over the next 5 months The Department of […]
July 18, 2012
Department of Unusual Certainties presented Timeline of Currency for Doors Open Toronto 2012 in the One King West building. One King West is a condominium built upon a historic building that had previously been operating as a bank for 100+ years. Through the buildings transformation aspects of the banks infrastructure have been perserved – specifically its vault and […]
July 14, 2012
Another Way to Eat is one of ten proposals for the future of transportation presented at MOVE: Transportation Expo. MOVE is hosted by Evergreen at the Brickworks and was developed in collaboration with the Institute without Boundaries. Each of the proposals is rooted in ideas first articulated at a charrette in the winter; with those working groups, […]
July 3, 2012
Art of the Danforth Innovators’ Fair: A series of Programless Pavilions opened May 20, 2012 as Department of Unusual Certainties’ contribution to Art of the Danforth. DoUC inserted three sculptural forms into East Lynn Park constituting the Innovators’ Fair. DoUC intends to publish a small pamphlet for the project later in the Fall.
June 9, 2012
(photo credit: Aliya Tejani) DoUC has a new mailing address: Department of Unusual Certainties 1214 Queen Street West Suite 210 Toronto, ON M6J 1J6 We’ve moved into Suite 210 at the Gladstone Hotel for the next six months.During our time here we will be working with the Gladstone’s Director of Exhibitions, Noa Bronstein, to organize a series of […]
May 18, 2012
Art of the Danforth Innovators’ Fair: A series of programless pavilions part of Art of the Danforth festival May 20 to June 10 East Lynn Park (Woodbine & Danforth, Toronto) Join us Sunday May 20th at Dusk in East Lynn for the opening of the Innovators’ Fair.
May 10, 2012
Daragh Sankey’s series of shorts, In Store: Art and Crisis in Windsor, continues with an exploration of DoUC’s contribution Storefront Success Stories. The In Store series documents the Storefront Residency for Social Innovation that Broken City Lab hosted during the summer of 2010. Windsor Redux – Tip Sheets and Speed Dates Speed Dating for Storeowners Storefront Success Stories in Windsor
May 2, 2012
DoUC is proud to be part of the Jubilee show currently on at the Harbourfront Centre, celebrating Her Royal Majesty’s Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee. DoUC are not Monarchists but are instead Monarchy opportunists, and what better way to celebrate this ideology then by mapping the historic travels of The Queen. Land, Air, and Sea […]
April 5, 2012
DoUC is participating in the exhibition Preoccupied curated by Cadence Collective. We’re presenting the STEEL not STEAL infographic from our larger project Spaces of Negotiation; which charts the 11 month lockout of Local 1005 in 2011. We gave an impassioned rant about the project on April 1 as part of panel of speakers at the exhibition. To honour the conversation […]
January 12, 2012
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
May 16, 2013
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